Show Your Film And Music Star Stamps

Not complete without Billie :)

Romy Schneider, Austrian born German film star who achieved
her greatest success in France.
She appeared in a couple of Hollywood movies including
What's New cat? starring Peter O'Toole, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen.

NOTE: I can't believe that the word before cat was censored
by the site here.
The offending word passed the Motion Picture Production Code way back
in 1965 when they were a lot stricter than now.

Oskar Werner, an Austrian born actor appeared in a few
memorable films including Ship of Fools, Fahrenheit 451 and in one of my
favourite spy movies The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.


Scott 1740

What's wrong with saying cat?

Austrian stamp issued for the 60th Year of the release
of the 1949 movie The Third Man

One of my all time favourites. What a movie. Wow.
Superb acting by Orson Welles & Joseph Cotten.
And the haunting Harry Lime Theme played on a
zither.

Pink Floyd - The Division Bell

A PHQ (stamp card) swap from UK (also included the original stamp)

Here is an image of stamp featuring a portrait of Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, 1905-1990), Swedish film actress and international star during Hollywood's silent and classic periods, engraved by Piotr Naszarkowski, and issued by the USA on September 23, 2005 to commemorate Garbo's birth centenary, Scott No. 3943, with a similar design to a joint issue from Sweden, Scott No. 2517a, also engraved by Piotr Naszarkowski (note that gussyboy1 previously posted an image of the USA stamp some four years ago in this thread.) Also, here are images of the two se-tenant booklet stamps honoring Greta Garbo, issued by Sweden on September 23, 2005, Scott Nos 2517a. & 2517b, Facit Nos. 2508 & 2509. In the USA and Sweden photo portrait stamps, the curl in Garbo's hair that covers her right eye is different in each design, showing that the two portrait engravings are slightly different in addition to the denominations and text.

- nethryk



Greta Garbo, designed by Carl T. Herman after a portrait by American photographer Clarence Sinclair Bull (1896-1979), and engraved by Piotr Naszarkowski.


Greta Garbo, designed after a portrait by American photographer Clarence Sinclair Bull (1896-1979), and engraved by Piotr Naszarkowski, and tinted brown. This stamp won several prestigious philatelic awards.


Greta Garbo caricature, designed after a drawing by Swedish artist Einar Nerman (1888-1983), and engraved by Lars Sjööblom.

Beautiful engraved stamps, nethryk.

Here's two from three:



Gregory Peck and Helen Hayes.

scifi7 - Thanks!

A star behind the camera: Georges Méliès (1861-1938) was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès, a prolific innovator in the use of special effects, accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896, and was one of the first filmmakers to use multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color in his work. Because of his ability to seemingly manipulate and transform reality through cinematography, Méliès is sometimes referred to as the first "Cinemagician."

Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Georges Méliès, and the giant cannon "launch" scene from one of his most famous films, the science fiction/fantasy classic A Trip to the Moon (1902), designed and engraved by René Cottet, and issued by France on March 13, 1961 to commemorate Méliès's birth centenary, Scott No. 987, Y&T No. 1284.

- nethryk

These stamps commemorate 100 years of cinema.
In one of them appears Charles Chaplin in the film "The Kid"



The child is Jackie Coogan (1914-1984), who in 1964-66 became famous for his role as Uncle Fester in the Tv. series "The Addams Family"

Happy Birthday to Louis Jouvet (1887-1951), a renowned French actor and director who starred in some 34 films. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Jouvet, designed by R. Baur, engraved by Czeslaw Slania, and issued by Monaco on November 16, 1987 to commemorate the actor's birth centenary, plus a postcard photo of Louis Jouvet c. 1920.

- nethryk

Here is an image of a stamp depicting Grace Patricia Kelly (1929-1982) holding her 1955 Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Actress for her performance in the film The Country Girl (1954), designed by Claude Andréotto, engraved by Pierre Albuisson, and issued by Monaco on December 4, 2009 (but dated 2010), Scott No. 2570, plus a photograph of the glamorous American actress who became Princess of Monaco, and YouTube links to a movie trailer for The Country Girl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdTEWWH2XJo, and to the actual presentation of the Award: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsE1P9-nZOk

- nethryk

Happy 125th Birthday to Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (1889-1977), an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the silent era. Here is an image of a stamp honoring Charlie Chaplin, designed by Jean Chesnot, engraved by Georges Bétemps, and issued by Monaco on March 14, 1989 to commemorate the entertainer's birth centenary, Scott No. 1679, plus a photographic portrait of Chaplin c.1920, and a YouTube link to a fascinating 1992 documentary entitled "The Chaplin Puzzle," narrated by American actor Burgess Meredith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq8mOSgxYy0

- nethryk

Aleksandër Moisiu (aka Alexander Moissi, 1879-1935) was an Austrian actor of Albanian ancestry. In Albania Moisiu is venerated as the nation's greatest actor, and the drama school of the Academy of Music and Arts in Tirana as well as the university and the city theater of Durrës were named after him. Although known primarily as a stage actor, Moisiu did appear in one German silent drama movie entitled Die Nacht der Königin Isabeau ("The Night of Queen Isabeau," 1920), which is now considered a lost film. Here are images of the two similar stamps in a set featuring a portrait of Moisiu, printed by lithography, and issued by Albania on April 20, 1960 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the actor's birth, Scott Nos. 555 & 556, plus a photo of Aleksandër Moisiu in 1906.

- nethryk

Happy Birthday to Ernst Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007), a prolific and influential Swedish director, writer and producer who worked in film, television, and theater. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Ingmar Bergman, designed by Gustav Malmfors after a photograph by Anders Wiklund, engraved by Lars Sjööblom, and issued by Sweden on January 24, 2008, Scott No. 2576, plus an image of the photo of Bergman used as the model for this stamp's design, and a YouTube link to a full presentation of my favorite Bergman film, Det sjunde inseglet ("The Seventh Seal," 1957): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbgiWPJLSsM


- nethryk