Bogart & Wilder
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart was born on December 25, 1899, in Manhattan, the eldest child of a surgeon and a commercial illustrator. He left Phillips Academy after one semester in 1918 and served in the U.S. Navy until 1919. His Broadway debut came in 1922, and he spent years in supporting roles, often as a gangster. After his performance as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest, Warner Bros. signed him, and they typecast him in many B-movie crime dramas. Basically, he was stuck playing criminals until 1941, when High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon made him a star. Casablanca followed in 1942 and gave him his first romantic lead. He won Best Actor for The African Queen in 1951. He met his fourth wife, Lauren Bacall, while filming To Have and Have Not (1944), and they co-starred in several more films as well. He died of esophageal cancer on January 14, 1957, at the age of 57. In 1999, the American Film Institute named him the greatest male star of classic American cinema.
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder was born on April 17, 1897, in Madison, Wisconsin. He earned a B.A. from Yale in 1920 and an M.A. in French literature from Princeton in 1926. From 1921 until 1928 he taught French at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, and he considered himself a teacher first and a writer second. However, his writing is what made him famous. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey in 1928, and for the plays Our Town in 1938 and The Skin of Our Teeth in 1943. During World War II, he rose to lieutenant colonel in U.S. Army Air Forces Intelligence and served in Africa and then in Italy until 1945. His play The Matchmaker (1955) was the basis for the musical Hello, Dolly! in 1964, though he did not write the musical himself. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and died of heart failure on December 7, 1975, at the age of 78.
Note
I’m missing only the stamp of the cartoon character Bugs Bunny at the end of the top row. This stamp was issued in different format, including on a souvenir sheet for some reason. I’m confused as to which is which. I have the same problem with a few cartoon character stamps in this series.
Contains 10 spots: own 7 – 7 unused, 0 used.
Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ |
3152 |
32¢ (07 1997) |
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✓ |
3121 |
32¢ (01 1997) |
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3137a |
32¢ (05 1997) |
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✓ |
3120 |
32¢ (01 1997) |
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✓ |
3175 |
32¢ (10 1997) |
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3141 |
32¢ (06 1997) |
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✓ |
3134 |
32¢ (04 1997) |
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3166 |
32¢ (09 1997) |
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✓ |
3135 |
32¢ (04 1997) |
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✓ |
3125 |
32¢ (02 1997) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.
