VICTOR CUTLER - DOCUMENT DOUBLE SIGNED 08/05/1946 - HFSID 289276

VICTOR CUTLER
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Cutler's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. He has signed twice, once to give consent and again as a sample autograph. A perfectly verified example of a rare signature!
Document signed twice: "Victor Cutler", 1 page, 8½x11. Hollywood, California, 1946 August 5. Cutler 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. Victor Cutler (1913-1979) was a male model and the ghostwriter of children's books as well as an actor. He played supporting roles in films of the 1940s, including the realistic war movie A Walk in the Sun (1943) and the postwar classic The Best Days of Our Lives (1946). 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. Light stain at lower right corner. Otherwise, fine condition.