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Hollywood stars featured on forever stamps

By Staff | May 31, 2011

The U.S. Postal Service has issued forever stamps honoring two of Hollywood’s most notable actors: Gregory Peck and Helen Hayes.

Elected the greatest screen hero of all time by the American Film Institute, Academy Award-winning Gregory Peck appeared in more than 60 films during a career that included five nominations for Best Actor.

He won the Oscar for his performance as defense attorney Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, a character that Peck said was closest to his own heart. The stamp portrait is a still photograph from the film.

Peck becomes the 17th inductee in the Legends of Hollywood collectible stamp series, which includes Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn and other cinematic greats.

Famed actress Helen Hayes takes center stage once again.

Just as the annual Helen Hayes Awards serve as a vibrant living legacy to the First Lady of American Theater, so too will this commemorative forever stamp serve as a lasting tribute to a great American actress.

Born in the nation s capital, Hayes first appeared at age 5 in a school production. Notable stage performances included Happy Birthday (1946), for which Hayes won the inaugural Tony Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress; Time Remembered (1957), for which she won her second Tony Award; and Eugene O’Neill s A Touch of the Poet (1958). Highlights of Hayes s later career included her second Academy Award, this time for Best Supporting Actress in the film Airport (1970), and her final stage performance in Eugene O Neill s Long Day s Journey into Night (1971).

Altogether, Hayes appeared in more than 100 stage productions. When she died in 1993 at age 92, the lights of Broadway were dimmed in her honor.

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Mr. Zip s Tip: USPS printed 25.1 billion stamps in FY 2010.

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