SCOTT #1935 JAMES HOBAN & WHITE HOUSE 18 CENT

    When the federal government prepared to build living quarters for its President and his family, an open contest was sponsored to decide the plan for the building. The competition attracted a great deal of attention. Among all the entrants, James Hoban's design won.
    Hoban was born in Ireland and drew upon this influence. His drawings were modeled after the Irish Parliament's meeting place, the Leinster House.



                        

SCOTT #1912-19 SPACE ACHIEVEMENT 18 CENT

    The world's first reusable manned space-craft, the United States space shuttle, Columbia, was launched into space on April 12, 1981. Columbia's success changed space travel forever. Today, space shuttles are designed so that they may be used for multiple shuttles.



                       

SCOTT #2286-2335 WILDLIFE SHEET 22 CENT

                                         1987 WILDLIFE SHEET
    Featuring wildlife from through-out the U.S., this colorful sheet was no exception. Artist Chuck Ripper, premiere wildlife designer for the Postal Service, carefully selected and researched the animals, birds, and insects that appear on these beautiful stamps, rendering each one with lifelike detail.


                           

SCOTT #2647-96 WILDFLOWER SHEET 29 CENT

    Fifty-stamp sheets have always been a favorite with collectors, especially when they feature the beauty of nature, and this Wildflower sheet is no exception. Exquisite flowers in vivid colors make these 50 stamps some of the prettiest and most popular. In fact, the Postal Service was so certain this sheet would be in high demand, they ordered a press run larger than that for normal commemorative s . All the wildflowers pictured on this lovely sheet are native to America, and at least 1 or more can be found in each of the 50 states.



                  

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SCOTT #2819-26 SILENT SCREEN STARS 29 CENT

    Legendary artist Al Hirschfield created these Silent Screen caricatures. Hirschfield's trademark is the addition of the word NINA, his daughter's name, in the lines of some drawings. They are hidden, so look closely.




                      

SCOTT #4451-60 ADOPT A SHELTER PET 44 CENT

    In 2010 the U.S. recognized a major problem with abandoned pets in the country. Trying to make the citizens more aware of the problem that exists, the Post Office printed the "Adopt a Shelter Pet"  souvenir sheet featuring 5 different dogs and 5 different cats. These sheets created a rush to shelters to adopt a pet. Everyone has to do their share TO RESCUE A PET.




                         

 

SCOTT #2840 NORMAN ROCKWELL SOUVENIR SHEET 50 CENT

            PRINTING IMPROVEMENTS MADE THE ROCKWELL SHEET POSSIBLE
A triple self portrait and four freedoms reflect the technological improvements in off-set printing that allowed the reduction of Rockwell's 44"x 48" paintings to tiny 1" x 1 1/2" stamps, with little loss of the detail for which he was famous . Rockwell's paintings of ordinary folks were filled with gentle humor and respect for humanity's basic values.



                      

SCOTT #2841 MOON LANDING SOUVENIR SHEET 29 CENT

   On July 20,1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong spoke the words, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," and stepped out of the safety of the lunar module "Eagle" and onto the surface of the moon. This stamp celebrates the 25th anniversary of that amazing achievement.



                              

SCOTT #2869 LEGENDS OF THE WEST 29 CENT

                                                               INTERESTING FACTS

                       

SCOTT #2981 VICTORY AT LAST 1945 32 CENT

                                                        INTERESTING FACTS!!!!!!!

                      

SCOTT #2967 MARILYN MONROE 32 CENT

   
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s.
After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946 with Twentieth Century-Fox. Her early film appearances were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950) drew attention. By 1952 she had her first leading role in Don't Bother to Knock and 1953 brought a lead in Niagara, a melodramatic film noir that dwelt on her seductiveness. Her 'dumb blonde' persona was used to comic effect in subsequent films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). Limited by typecasting, Monroe studied at the Actors Studio to broaden her range. Her dramatic performance in Bus Stop (1956) was hailed by critics and garnered a Golden Globe nomination. Her production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, released The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination and won a David di Donatello award. She received a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Some Like It Hot (1959). Monroe's last completed film was The Misfits (1961), co-starring Clark Gable, with a screenplay written by her then-husband, Arthur Miller.
The final years of Monroe's life were marked by illness, personal problems, and a reputation for unreliability and being difficult to work with. Ever since Monroe's death from an overdose of barbiturates on August 5, 1962, the exact circumstances have been subject to conjecture. Though officially classified as a "probable suicide", the possibilities of an accidental overdose or a homicide have not been ruled out. In 1999, Monroe was ranked as the sixth-greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. In the decades following her death, she has often been cited as both a pop and a cultural icon as well as the quintessential American sex symbol. In 2009, TV Guide Network named her No. 1 in Film's Sexiest Women of All Time.




                         

SCOTT #3082 JAMES DEAN 32 CENT

   
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He is a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955) and surly ranch hand Jett Rink in Giant (1956). Dean's enduring fame and popularity rest on his performances in only these three films, in two of which he is the leading actor.
Dean's premature death in a car crash cemented his legendary status. He became the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, and remains the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations.In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 18th best male movie star on their AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list.

                          

SCOTT #3152 HUMPHREY BOGART 32 CENT

   

Humphrey Bogart
Bogart in a publicity photo, 1945
Born	Humphrey DeForest Bogart December 25, 1899 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	January 14, 1957 (aged 57) Westwood, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Esophageal cancer
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
Education	Trinity School
Alma mater	Phillips Academy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1921–1956
Height	5 ft 7.5 in (171.5 cm)
Spouse(s)	Helen Menken (1926–1927) Mary Philips (1928–1937) Mayo Methot (1938–1945) Lauren Bacall (1945–1957; his death)
Children	Stephen H. Bogart, Leslie Bogart
Parent(s)	Dr. Belmont DeForest Bogart Maud Humphrey
Awards	Academy Award for Best Actor (1951) for The African Queen
Website	www.humphreybogart.com
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Humphrey DeForest Bogart (/ˈboʊɡɑrt/;December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American screen actor whose performances in such iconic 1940s films noir as The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and The Big Sleep, earned him the legacy of cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema. Over his career he received three Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, winning one.
Bogart began acting in 1921 after a hitch in the U.S. Navy in World War I and little success in various jobs in finance and the production side of the theater. Gradually he became a regular in Broadway shows in the 1920s and 1930s. When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turned to film. His first great success was as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936), and this led to a period of typecasting as a gangster with films such as Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and B-movies like The Return of Doctor X (1939).
Bogart's breakthrough as a leading man came in 1941, with High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon. The next year, his performance in Casablanca raised him to the peak of his profession and, at the same time, cemented his trademark film persona, that of the hard-boiled cynic who ultimately shows his noble side. Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948), with his wife Lauren Bacall; and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); In a Lonely Place (1950); The African Queen (1951), for which he won his only Oscar; Sabrina (1954); and The Caine Mutiny (1954). His last film was The Harder They Fall (1956). During a film career of almost 30 years, he appeared in 75 feature films.

                      

SCOTT #3329 JAMES CAGNEY 33 CENT

   
James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an American actor and dancer, both on stage and in film, though he had his greatest impact in film. Known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing, he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances. He is best remembered for playing multi-faceted tough guys in movies like The Public Enemy (1931), Taxi! (1932), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and White Heat (1949) and was even typecast or limited by this view earlier in his career. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among its 50 Greatest American Screen Legends. Orson Welles said of Cagney that he was "maybe the greatest actor who ever appeared in front of a camera"^[ and Stanley Kubrick considered him to be one of the best actors of all time.
In his first professional acting performance, Cagney danced costumed as a woman in the chorus line of the 1919 revue Every Sailor. He spent several years in vaudeville as a dancer and comedian, until he got his first major acting part in 1925. He secured several other roles, receiving good notices, before landing the lead in the 1929 play Penny Arcade. After rave reviews, Warner Bros. signed him for an initial $500-a-week, three-week contract to reprise his role; this was quickly extended to a seven-year contract.
Cagney's seventh film, The Public Enemy, became one of the most influential gangster movies of the period. Notable for a famous scene in which Cagney pushes a grapefruit against his co-star's face, the film thrust him into the spotlight. He became one of Hollywood's biggest stars and one of Warner Brothers' biggest contracts. In 1938, he received his first Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, for Angels with Dirty Faces for his subtle portrayal of the tough guy/man-child Rocky Sullivan. In 1942, Cagney won the Oscar for his energetic portrayal of George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy. He was nominated a third time in 1955 for Love Me or Leave Me. Cagney retired from acting and dancing in 1961 to spend time on his farm with his family. He exited retirement, twenty years later, for a part in the 1981 movie Ragtime, mainly to aid his recovery from a stroke.^{[citation needed]}
Cagney walked out on Warner Brothers several times over the course of his career, each time returning on much improved personal and artistic terms. In 1935, he sued Warners for breach of contract and won. This was one of the first times an actor prevailed over a studio on a contract issue. He worked for an independent film company for a year while the suit was being settled—and established his own production company, Cagney Productions, in 1942, before returning to Warners four years later. In reference to Cagney's refusal to be pushed around, Jack L. Warner called him "The Professional Againster". Cagney also made numerous morale-boosting troop tours before and during World War II, and was president of the Screen Actors Guild for two years.



                         

SCOTT #3446 EDWARD G. ROBINSON 33 CENT

   
He began his acting career in the Yiddish Theater District in 1913 and made his Broadway debut in 1915. He made his film debut in a minor uncredited role in 1916; in 1923 he made his named debut as E. G. Robinson in The Bright Shawl. He played a snarling gangster in the 1927 Broadway police/crime drama The Racket that led to his being cast in similar film roles. One of many actors who saw his career flourish in the new sound film era rather than falter, he made only three films prior to 1930 but left his stage career that year and made 14 films between 1930–1932.
Robinson went on to make a total of 101 films in his 50-year career. An acclaimed performance as the gangster Caesar Enrico "Rico" Bandello in Little Caesar (1931) led to him being further typecast as a "tough guy" for much of his early career, in works such as Five Star Final (1931), Smart Money (1931; his only movie with James Cagney and Boris Karloff), Tiger Shark (1932), Kid Galahad (1937) with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, and, in a sendup of his gangster roles, A Slight Case of Murder.
He volunteered for military service during World War II but was disqualified due to his age. However, Robinson did become an outspoken public critic of fascism and Nazism, and donated more than US$250,000 to 850 political and charitable groups between 1939 and 1949. He was host to the Committee of 56 who gathered at his home on December 9, 1938, signing a "Declaration of Democratic Independence" which called for a boycott of all German-made products. He played FBI agent Turrou in Confessions of a Nazi Spy, the first American film which showed Nazism as a threat to the United States in 1939, and in 1940 played Paul Ehrlich in Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet and Paul Julius Reuter in A Dispatch from Reuter's, both biographies of prominent Jewish public figures.
Meanwhile, throughout the 1940s Robinson also demonstrated his knack for both film noir and comedic roles, including Raoul Walsh's Manpower (1941) with Marlene Dietrich and George Raft, Larceny, Inc. (1942) with Jane Wyman and Broderick Crawford, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944) with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window (1944) with Joan Bennett and Scarlet Street (1945) with Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea, and Orson Welles' The Stranger (1946) with Welles and Loretta Young. He appeared for director John Huston as gangster Johnny Rocco in Key Largo (1948), the last of five films he made with Humphrey Bogart and the only one in which Bogart did not play a supporting role.
On three occasions in 1950 and 1952, he was called to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and was threatened with blacklisting. Robinson took steps to clear his name, such as having a representative go through his check stubs to ensure that none had been issued to subversive organizations. He did not give names of Communist sympathizers, but he repudiated the organizations he had belonged to in the 1930s and 1940s. His own name was cleared, but in the aftermath his career noticeably suffered, as he was offered smaller roles and those less frequently. Robinson continued his "ritual of rehabilitation by humiliation" in October 1952, when he wrote an article titled "How the Reds made a Sucker Out of Me", that was published in the American Legion Magazine. In spite of this, he was once again called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in January 1954.
His career rehabilitation received a boost in 1954, when noted anti-communist director Cecil B. DeMille cast him as the traitorous Dathan in The Ten Commandments. The film was released in 1956, as was the psychological thriller Nightmare. After a subsequent short absence from the screen, Robinson's film career—augmented by an increasing number of television roles—restarted for good in 1958/59, when he was second-billed after Frank Sinatra in the 1959 release A Hole in the Head. The last-ever scene Robinson filmed was a euthanasia sequence in the science fiction cult film Soylent Green (1973); it is sometimes claimed that he told friend and co-star Charlton Heston that he, Robinson, had in fact only weeks to live at best. As it turned out, Robinson died only twelve days later