VERA ZORINA - DOCUMENT DOUBLE SIGNED 08/09/1946 - HFSID 288835

VERA ZORINA
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Vera Zorina's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. The form is signed twice by Zorina, once as an autograph sample and again to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example!
Document signed twice: "Vera Zorina", 1 page, 8½x11. Los Angeles, California, 1946 August 9. Vera Zorina 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. Born in Berlin to Norwegian parents, Vera Zorina (1917-2003) was a ballerina who could sing and, secondarily, act. She appeared as Marina van Linden in both the Broadway (1940) and film (1941) versions of the musical comedy Louisiana Purchase. Zorina appeared in starring film roles from 1938 (The Goldwyn Follies) to 1946 (Lover Come Back). She was managing director of the Norwegian Opera in the 1970s, and, from 1978, a record producer for Columbia Records. 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 (worn). Staple holes at top left. Paperclip indentation at top left. Normal mailing folds. Slightly worn. Slightly creased. Lightly toned at top left edge. Otherwise, fine condition.