Actors/Actresses on Stamps

This Canadian stamp is Scott # 2153b issued May 26, 2006. It shows actress Fay Wray whose acting career started in 1923 and spanned 57 years.  The movie she is most often associated with is the 1933 film King Kong.

This Canadian stamp is Scott # 2153d issued May 26, 2006. It shows Mary Pickford is a Canadian actress and co-founder of the film studio United Artists.  She started her career in silent films. The American Film Institute named her 24th among the greatest female stars of all time. She is also known as "America's Sweetheart".

This Canadian stamp is Scott # 2279a issued June 30, 2008. It shows Norma Shearer who was one of the most popular actresses in the mid-1920s through the 1930s.  Her best known films include: "The Women", "Marie Antoinette" and "Romeo and Juliet".

This Canadian stamp is Scott # 2279c issued June 30, 2008. It shows Marie Dressler was a stage and screen actress and depression-era film star.  She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931 for Min and Bill.

Marlene Dietrich on a 1997 stamp from Germany

Scott# 506 - Shirley Temple

Issued April 19, 2016

Shirley Temple was easily the most popular and famous child star of all time. She got her start in the movies at the age of three and soon progressed to super stardom. Shirley could do it all: act, sing and dance and all at the age of five! Fans loved her as she was bright, bouncy and cheerful in her films and they ultimately bought millions of dollars worth of products that had her likeness on them. Dolls, phonograph records, mugs, hats, dresses, whatever it was, if it had her picture on there they bought it.

Shirley was box-office champion for the consecutive years 1935-36-37-38, beating out such great grown-up stars as Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford. By 1939, her popularity declined. Although she starred in some very good movies like Since You Went Away (1944) and the The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), her career was nearing its end.

Later, she served as an ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. It was once guessed that she had more than 50 golden curls on her head.

From the same 1961 French set, François Joseph Talma (1763-1826), who started his working life with a brief period as a dentist before going on stage. He was the leading French actor of his time, best-known for tragic roles - here he is shown in that of Orestes, who killed his mother Clytemnestra and her paramour Aegisthus in revenge for the murder of his father Agamemnon - and a friend of Napoleon.

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Raimu (the stage name of Jules Auguste Muraire, 1883-1946) on a fourth 1961 French stamp. He was most famous for starring in plays by Marcel Pagnol, and film versions of them.

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