Comments on: They stamped the terra!

By: Ralph DeLuca

Ralph DeLuca — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:56:58 +0000

These are really cool stamps. I am a movie poster collector and had to start buying these stamps out of the love for films and movie art. They need to make more of them.

Ralph DeLuca
Madison, NJ

By: s.w.a.c.

s.w.a.c. — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:50:51 +0000

The U.S. stamp for blues legend Robert Johnson was also de-ciggie-fied (especially noticeable since it was based on one of only two known photos of the man).

I’d love to see more Canadian film legends on Canada Post issues…Jack Warner…Marie Provost…Mack Sennett…maybe even L.B. Mayer (who wasn’t born here, but grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick).

I still have my first day covers of the silent film stars stamps designed by Al Hirschfeld, including Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Gloria Swanson. I think there were others (maybe Clara Bow?) but they escape my memory at the moment. I’d love to have Buster design on a T-shirt (although it looks more like an older, more tired sound era Buster than the fresh-faced silent genius).

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:34:58 +0000

My favorite USPS Hollywood stamp is the Grace Kelly stamp issued at least a decade ago. I still have some and they are gorgeous.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:30:56 +0000

Note to Moira regarding Canadian stamps. The first issue of successful in Hollywood types was released a few years ago and did feature Lorne Greene, along with Mary Pickford, Fay Wray and John Candy. I’m surprised that Raymond Massey has yet to be honoured.

By: Richard Harland Smith

Richard Harland Smith — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:37:28 +0000

I wouldn’t say the removal of the cigarette from that iconic image of Bette Davis represents a scam or a sin, particularly, but I can appreciate your purist’s ire, Joe. Maybe some day the USPS can do a series of stamps dedicated to beautiful stars and starlets of Hollywood’s classic era who died of lung cancer – what a set that would be… stars (Bogie, Gary Cooper, Robert Taylor, Susay Hayward, Barbara Bel Geddes, Yul Brynner) from here to eternity.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:54:48 +0000

At my blog, “Carole & Co.”, I have written several entries on such stamps, in hopes that ultimately the USPS will include Carole Lombard as part of its “Legends Of Hollywood” series.

I wrote this in September 2007, not long after the great James Stewart received a stamp:
http://community.livejournal.com/carole_and_co/35054.html

A country that did issue a Lombard stamp — and don’t confuse it with the fictional kingdom of 1932′s “Million Dollar Legs”:
http://community.livejournal.com/carole_and_co/53110.html

An entry on the news that some other star whose centennial was celebrated in 2008 (a lady named Davis) beat out Carole for the honor:
http://community.livejournal.com/carole_and_co/63426.html

Perhaps President Obama can exert some pressure on the USPS to get Lombard honored in 2010. Heck, it might boost his chances of getting Indiana’s electoral votes come 2012.

By: Joe aka Mongo

Joe aka Mongo — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:56:43 +0000

I have collected most of the Hollywood Legend stamps including the Hattie McDaniel which I thought were all impressive except the Audrey Hepburn stamp.
Although the Bette Davis stamp is a scam. In an image from “All About Eve” it’s a sin that her cigarette was removed from her fingers. I believe the lady herself would have been mortified.

By: Richard Harland Smith

Richard Harland Smith — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:18:50 +0000

That Georges Simenon commemorative stamp series consisted of the one you see, one depicting Jean Gabin and Simone Signoret in Le Chat and one of Simenon himself, looking very bookish and avuncular... which was no doubt the secret of his success with les femmes.

By: moirafinnie

moirafinnie — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:39:13 +0000

Geekdom is just fine with me if it means I can openly relish all these beautiful stamps. I'm the proud geek-owner of a sheet of Hattie McDaniel and Cary Grant stamps, but I want that Jean Gabin stamp so much! (Btw, if those well known tales of Georges Simenon's private life are true, where did Simenon ever get the time to write all those page-turners?). I wonder if there was ever a Simenon stamp in France? I think the Canadian stamps of those Northern Stars are beautiful--especially since it shows Raymond Burr's baby blues to fine advantage. Speaking of Northern Stars, have they ever issued a Lorne Greene or--better yet, a Raymond Massey stamp? I suppose with Bonanza and all, ol' Lorne was too much of an American success and Massey's mug, while fascinating, probably wouldn't appeal to many people. Thanks for reproducing these here.

By: Suzi Doll

Suzi Doll — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:07:04 +0000

I LOVE celebrity stamps — but I always thought I was being too geeky, so I keep it to myself. Guess the secret is out now. I did frame a whole sheet of ALfred Hitchcock stamps, and I think I have four John Wayne stamps in a tiny frame somewhere. I have four stamps from a series that celebrated the great movie year of 1939: there was a stamp for Gone With the Wind, Gunga Din, Stagecoach, and a fourth movie that I can’t recall. Of course, I also have a whole sheet of the Elvis Presley stamp, which made more money for the post office than any other stamp in its history. I, too, bought the Poe stamps and hated to part with them. But, then I used them to pay bills, and I was hoping that Poe’s eerie vibe would work as some sort of curse on the utility companies.