RUSSELL HAYDEN - DOCUMENT DOUBLE SIGNED - HFSID 288918
Price: $700.00
RUSSELL HAYDEN
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Hayden's
signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry
veterans. He has signed twice, once as an autograph sample and again to grant
permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example!
Document signed twice: "Russell Hayden", 1 page, 8½x11. Hollywood, California, circa
1946. Hayden grants to the Motion Picture Relief Fund, Inc., its successors and assigns, the
exclusive right to use his 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. Russell Hayden (1912-1981) was an American actor with almost 80
films and TV shows, mostly Westerns, to his credit between 1937 and 1963. Hayden was a
grip, sound man, film cutter and assistant cameraman before he took up acting. One of his
first roles was as Lucky Jenkins, sidekick to William Boyd's Hopalong Cassidy, between
1937 and 1941. He later starred in, and sometimes produced, his own films from the 1940s
onward. Hayden turned to TV in the 1950s, producing and directing Western series like Judge
Roy Bean, in which he also starred. 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." Three filing holes at left. Staple holes at top left. Lightly creased. Ink drawings
on verso (unknown hand), shows through to front. Otherwise, fine condition.
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