NANCY SAUNDERS - DOCUMENT DOUBLE SIGNED 03/03/1947 CO-SIGNED BY: DUNCAN G. CASSELL - HFSID 289280

NANCY SAUNDERS
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Saunders' signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. She has signed twice, once to give consent and again as a sample autograph. Also signed by Duncan Cassell on behalf of Columbia Pictures. A perfectly verified example!
Document signed twice: "Nancy Saunders", 1 page, 8½x11. Also signed: "Duncan G. Cassell". Hollywood, California 1947 March 3. Saunders 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. NANCY SAUNDERS (b. 1925) was a leading lady of B-Westerns of the late 1940s, including South of the Chisholm Trail and Arizona Territory. She appeared in several TV series in the 1950s, also mostly Westerns, with a final performance on The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1961). She may be best remembered by current movies fans, however, for appearances in Three Stooges comedies, including The Ghost Talks (as Lady Godiva, 1949) and Stone Age Romeos (1955). DUNCAN CASSELL was secretary to Columbia Pictures mogul Harry Cohn.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. Staple holes at top edge. Red pencil marks (unknown hand). Paper clip imprint at top left corner. Multiple mailing folds. Otherwise, fine condition.