MARTHA SCOTT - DOCUMENT DOUBLE SIGNED CIRCA 1946 - HFSID 288814

MARTHA SCOTT
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Martha Scott's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. The form is signed twice by Scott, once as an autograph sample and again to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example!
Document signed twice: '"Martha Scott", 1 page, 8½x11. Hollywood, California, 1946. Martha Scott 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. Martha Scott (1912-2003), who made her professional debut playing Shakespeare at the 1933-1934 Chicago World's Fair, made her Broadway bow in 1938 in Our Town. Reprising her role in the 1940 film version, Scott received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Scott made a number of feature films, appearing as Charlton Heston's mother in both The Ten Commandments (1955) and Ben-Hur (1959), and in Sayonara (1957), Airport 1975 (1974) and The Turning Point (1977). She was also a frequent performer on television, appearing in several made-for-TV movies and on the series The Bob Newhart Show (1972, 1974-1977), Dallas and Murder, She Wrote (1987). 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. Multiple mailing folds. Lightly creased. Otherwise, fine condition.