Dec 30, 2008 8:21 am US/Pacific
U.S. Postal Service To Issue 2009 Celebrity Stamps
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Bob Hope poses in a still studio photo for Paramount Pictures in the mid-1940s.
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A picture of the late actor Clayton Moore in his Lone Ranger costume which was up for an online auction from Oct. 20-31, 2000 at sothebys.amazon.com. Moore starred as the Lone Ranger on TV from 1949 to 1952, when he was temporarily replaced by John Hart. H
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Picture of Lucille Ball taken in Hollywood, California, June 17, 1949.
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The U.S. Postal Service announced it would issue stamps in 2009 depicting Bob Hope, Gary Cooper and prominent 1950s television figures.
The Hope stamp will be issued on May 29 in a ceremony aboard the USS Midway in San Diego on the 106th anniversary of his birth.
The Early TV Memories set of 20 stamps will be issued Aug. 11 in Los Angeles.
The set consists of stamps depicting Milton Berle; "I Love Lucy" stars Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance; Red Skelton; puppet Howdy Doody; "Dragnet" star Jack Webb; Lassie; William Boyd, best known as Hopalong Cassidy, and his horse Topper; "You Bet Your Life" host Groucho Marx; Dinah Shore; Ed Sullivan; "Kukla, Fran and Ollie"; Phil Silvers; The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and his horse Silver; "Perry Mason" star Raymond Burr; Alfred Hitchcock; George Burns and Gracie Allen; Ozzie and Harriet Nelson; Steve Allen; "Twilight Zone" creator and host Rod Serling; and "The Honeymooners" stars Jackie Gleason and Art Carney.
The Cooper stamp will be issued Sept. 10 as the 15th in the Legends of Hollywood series.
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