Marilyn Monroe Stamp Unveiled by Postal Service
A new postage stamp graced by the glamour of Marilyn Monroe was unveiled Thursday, and the Postal Service said it will print 400 million of them.
“Today we salute a woman who shined as brightly as any in the history of Hollywood,” Postmaster General Marvin T. Runyon Jr. told reporters at the Planet Hollywood restaurant, where the stamp was unveiled.
Also at the ceremony was Anna Strasberg, widow of Lee Strasberg and director of the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Monroe studied with Lee Strasberg, the famed acting teacher who died in 1982. Monroe died in 1962.
The 32-cent stamp, the first in a series honoring legends of Hollywood, combines Monroe’s signature and a head-and-shoulders picture of her in a low-cut gown.
It will be released in Hollywood on June 1, what would have been Monroe’s 69th birthday.
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