Motion Picture & Television Fund

Hollywood has not been unmindful of its own.

The Motion Picture Relief Fund has established an $800,000 bank account raised through Sunday radio programs of the Gulf Screen Guild Show to maintain a home for indigent and aged studio workers of all classes.

Ground will be broken for the first 44 units of an eventual 164-unit home near Calabasas, California this fall.

Hollywood does not boast of its patriotism, but the public should know more of what the industry is doing for defense.

If I may speak for Mr. Scott and Mr. Wayne, I would like to express our thanks for being able to appear for the Screen Guild Players.

You see, the Motion Picture Relief Fund, which receives the benefits from these programs, is very important to all of us.

May I tell our listeners also that Barbara Stanwyck is here with us tonight, and she's coming to the microphone in just a minute.

But first, I would like you to hear a word from one of our best-known beauty authorities, Lady Esther.

is the last number of the 26th program in the current Jello series, and we'll be with you again next Sunday night at the same time.

Jack had to run away and do a show for the Motion Picture Relief Fund.

Good

night, folks.

It was a pleasure to be here, Mr. Bradley.

We know how much this radio program contributes to the Motion Picture Relief Fund and its country house.

We all feel it's a great privilege to share in that work.

Now, before we tell you about next week's show, here's a word from one of America's best-known beauty

Right, the actors.

Yeah, the actors, including Karloff and Eddie Albert, they donated their customary performance fees to the Motion Picture Relief Fund, which helps support retired and impoverished actors.

It adds this incredibly warm, genuine layer of real-life charity to a broadcast that revolves entirely around horrific, lethal, misguided charity.

It's a wonderful parallel.

Oh, A.C. Yeah.

Benefit for the Motion Picture and Television Fund.

So o- over the years, I eventually joined their board of advisers, whatever you call it.

But we got to see Gene Autry- Oh, my gosh ... and we got to know all those people.

And I imagine they go to 30 million as a way of saying like, if Paramount is releasing 25, for $30 million, they can probably produce something very simple, and they should actually just make a movie.

And if they don't do it, this money gets distributed between the unions, the Motion Picture and Television Fund, and something else for antitrust.

So... you know weird i think theory theatrical films annually is kind of insane you know 20 has to be wide release they even specify how many have to be like quote unquote blockbusters above a certain budget you know i i think as i go through this I'm curious for your take, because antitrust has always played, actually, a pretty active role in media and entertainment, whether it is, you know, our first episode, the Paramount decrease, or breaking up companies, or...

Yeah, talking about distribution and who can buy what.

Says half goes to selected healthcare and retirement funds for entertainment unions, including organizations such as the Writers Guilds of Amer- uh, the Writers Guild of America, IATSE, the DGA, and Teamsters.

Another 40% goes to the Motion Picture and Television Fund, while 10% goes to a National Association of Attorneys General antitrust fund.

You know what it's like?

What does that have to do with anything? [laughs]

As you know, their performance, and the performances of all the stars who appear here in the Gulf Theater, are donated.

And in return, Gulf gives generously to the Motion Picture Relief Fund.

to help in the great work of building a home to provide for workers in the picture industry who can no longer provide for themselves.

Once in a decade a story comes along that is so beautiful it becomes an overnight sensation as a novel and the hit of the year is a motion picture.