LOIS BUTLER - DOCUMENT SIGNED 06/04/1947 CO-SIGNED BY: LILLIAN BUTLER - HFSID 288933
Price: $600.00
LOIS BUTLER
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Butler's signature
and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans, signed
by Butler as an autograph sample and by her mother to give consent! A perfectly verified
example of a rare signature!
Document signed: "Lois Butler", 1 page, 8½x11. Also signed: "Mrs. Lillian Butler" [parent].
Hollywood, California, circa 1947. Ink stamp receipt date of June 4, 1947)Butler grants to
the Motion Picture Relief Fund, Inc., its successors and assigns, the exclusive right to use her
name, autograph, photographic likeness, or artist's sketch of the likeness, for reproduction on
engraved, embossed or printed stamps, and in stamp albums, and in connection with the
advertising and exploitation of these stamps and stamp albums for sale throughout the world.
Lois Butler (1931-1989) played youthful roles in three films, beginning with the
tomboyish title character in Mickey (1948). She also appeared in The Boy from Indiana and
High Lonesome (both 1950), and on and episode of TV's Ezio Pinza Show (1952). She
disappeared from the screen after that. The Motion Picture Relief Fund was founded in 1921
to assist ill and needy film industry veterans, as expressed in its motto: "We take care of our
own." The fund raised money through voluntary payroll deductions and celebrity events. As
President of the Fund from 1939 until his death in 1956, film and radio star Jean
Hersholt conceived Hollywood Star Stamps as a fundraising method. These stamps, 468 in
all, were sold at dime stores after World War II in sheets of 6-12, at 10 cents per sheet, and
were an immediate hit with collectors. Now called the Motion Picture and Television Fund,
the non-profit organization funds its own hospital and retirement home. It confers the Jean
Hersholt Humanitarian Award annually at the Academy Awards ceremony to "an
individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to
the industry." Filing holes at left edge. Staples holes at top edge. Lightly toned. Pencil marks
(unknown hand). Multiple mailing folds. Otherwise, fine condition.
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