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The Actors Fund Provides Essential Needs
By Judd Walker
While most people only think of successful, big names
when we think of television and movie actors, there
are times when those in the business are not truly successful
and are in need of help.
At times like these, the Actors Fund is there to help
provide everyday needs to those individuals. It is a
non profit organization working for those in the entertainment
industry to provide for their critical and essential
needs when the individuals cannot.
Just recently, a writer’s strike affected most of the
movie and television industry, leaving many people,
including movie actors out of work. It also affected
stunt men and women, those in movie costume design and
many others in different outlets of the movie industry.
Jobs Lost During The Strike
The Actors Fund attempted to help as many people as
possible during the time that the writer’s strike was
taking place. There were many jobs that were lost during
this time that will never be made available again.
The Actors Fund was founded in 1882, by Albert Marshman
Palmer. It was founded largely because Harrison Grey
Fiske, who was the editor of the New York Dramatic Mirror
and a former student of New York University, brought
attention to the array of problems that movie actors
and others in the profession were facing.
Raising Money To Provide For Families
In 1892, at a fair held at Madison Square Garden, this
organization was able to raise money to provide families
and individuals with money assistance, setting up an
Actors Fund Home for those in need of a place to live
and even burial plots at a cemetery in Brooklyn.
In 1980, when the AIDS crisis hit the film industry,
the Actors Fund attempted to bring what help they could
to the thousands affected.
A Non Profit Organization
There are times when struggling actors and others who
work in the TV and movie industry might need help with
financial assistance, the costs of medicine and medical
supplies, as well as other costs of living.
This is when the Actors Fund can help movie actors
and others in the industry. This non-profit organization
can offer help and assistance for individuals when they
are not able to handle these situations on their own.
Actors and those involved with the industry feel that
they should take care of their own, and this organization
has worked diligently to do so.
About the Author:
Judd Walker has written a number of articles on digital
photography, video and modeling including Become
A Model, Fashion
Models, Female
Models, Movie
Camera, Best
Digital Camcorder, Film
Director, Funny
Video Clips.
Keep a lookout as more articles from this author appear
on this website in the near future.
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