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VIVIAN BLAINE - DOCUMENT SIGNED 06/26/1946 - HFSID 289032

Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Vivian Blaine's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. The form is signed by Blaine to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example!

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VIVIAN BLAINE
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Vivian Blaine's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. The form is signed by Blaine to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example!
Document signed: "Vivian Blaine", 1 page, 8½x11. No place, 1946 June 26. Vivian Blaine 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. A former band singer featured in 20th Century Fox Film musicals of the 1940s, including State Fair (1945), Vivian Blaine (1921-1995) created the role of Miss Adelaide in the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls (1955), a part she reprised in the London production and film version (1955). She and Pinky Lee co-hosted a TV musical variety show, Those Two (1951-1952). Blaine appeared in character roles in films and TV into the early 1980s. 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. Normal mailing folds. Slightly creased. Pencil note (unknown hand). Otherwise, fine condition.

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