Priscilla Lane - Document Double Signed 09/03/1946

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PRISCILLA LANE Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Priscilla Lane's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. The form is signed twice by Lane, once as an autograph sample and again to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example! Document signed twice: "Priscilla Lane" and "Sincerely/ Priscilla Lane", 1 page, 8½x11. Los Angeles, California, 1946 August 3. Priscilla Lane grants to the Motion Picture Relief Fund, Inc., its successors and assigns, the exclusive right, until December 31, 1947 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. Singer and actress Priscilla Lane (1915-1995, born Priscilla Mullican in Indianola, Iowa) toured with her sisters in the band Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians before being signed to a contract with Warner Bros. in 1937. That year, she made her debut in Varsity Show, and Lane would be seen on the big screen through 1948 in such films as Four Daughters (1938), Brother Rat (1938), Daughters Courageous (1939), Brother Rat and a Baby (1940), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and Bodyguard (1948). Her second husband (1942 until his death in 1976) was U. S. Air Force Colonel Joseph A. Howard, and Lane often sang in shows at her husband's bases.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 fu... More information available. Please contact us if you have questions. HFSID 288954