Stuff Classic Film Fans Need.

Okay, maybe we don't need all those DVDs, CDs, biographies, video guides, posters, and postage stamps, but we're going to get them all the same.

For example, I always buy the Legends of Hollywood postage stamps here in the States. Among the people depicted: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, and Audrey Hepburn.

Here's a preview of this year's commemoratives, with several film-related items, including an intriguing series on African-American film. Scroll down to see the entire array of movie commemoratives.

http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2007/sr07_084.htm

So what have you got on your to-buy list?

the Frank Sinatra one is great too, as is the Vintage Black Cinema series; those are really great! Thanks for the heads-up!

I went to the post office to ask and even the clerk behind the counter was only aware of the Sinatra stamp. There was no mention of Bette Davis, let alone the black film series. And of course I didn't know there were more Disney stamps coming out either.

The Postal Service has devoted most of the Legends of Hollywood series to males, and only the most famous ones at that. For instance, Barbara Stanwyck really should get a stamp, as long as they're working their way through the stars of the '30s and '40s.

I also hope they honor John Garfield in the not too distant future, as well as some of the great directors (George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch, etc.). Perhaps a group pane is in order, sort of like what the Postal Service has done with journalists, diplomats, and scientists.

to get a stamp honouring them. So far, unsuccessfully. I guess the
competition is pretty fierce.

Okay, all you Americans who still use the U.S. Postal Service, it's time to get an update on stamps issued in 2009. The Bob Hope and Early TV Memories stamps came out earlier this year, and the Gary Cooper one, the latest in the Legends of Hollywood series, has just been issued.



Note: A first-class stamp is now 44 cents, not 42.




Check out the various designs for this year. I somehow missed the civil rights leaders design, plus the Hawaii statehood commemoration. Both are especially appropriate in the year we inaugurated our first African-American and first Hawaiian-born president.

http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2008/pr08_136.htm

grapes, cashews and a few other refreshments. No alcohol, I don't drink (alcohol).
I think that is a big thing, if the movie is going to be any kind of movie, there must be buttery popcorn. And, alas, CocaCola to wash it down with.
dc

...movie cowboys!



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/movies/31arts-SCREENCOWBOY_BRF.html

On Wednesday the United States Postal Service announced the designs for its 2010 stamps — you know, those little stickers you put on the corners of your tangible, nonelectronic correspondence — and several pay tribute to well-known cultural figures. The film actors Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Tom Mix and William S. Hart are depicted on a stamp series called Cowboys of the Silver Screen, which goes on sale April 17; Katharine Hepburn becomes the latest honoree of the Postal Service’s Legends of Hollywood series in a stamp that will be issued on May 12 (using an image from her performance in the film “Woman of the Year”); and the Winslow Homer painting “Boys in a Pasture” receives its own stamp on Aug. 12. Other new stamps will depict the singer Kate Smith, the filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, the poet Julia de Burgos and works by Abstract Expressionists of the 1940s and 1950s.



There is, of course, already a Gary Cooper stamp out.