Henry Fonda Centennial and Legends of Hollywood Stamp Are Celebrated at Academy

Henry Fonda Centennial and Legends of Hollywood Stamp Are Celebrated at Academy

What: First-day-of-issue ceremony for the Henry Fonda postage
stamp, 11th in the Postal Service Legends of Hollywood Stamp
Series; Fonda's centennial birthday celebration and screening
of "My Darling Clementine" (1946).

Who: John F. Walsh, Member, U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors
Al Iniguez, Vice President, Area Operations, U.S. Postal
Service, Pacific Area
Frank Pierson, President, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences
Shirlee Fonda, wife
Jane Fonda, daughter
Vanessa Vadim, granddaughter
Justin Fonda, grandson
Troy Garity, grandson
Robert Osborne, host, film historian and author

When: Reception: 6:30 p.m. (PDT)
Ceremony: 7:30 p.m. (PDT)
May 20, 2005

Media is welcome to cover the reception for photographs and
interviews.

Photographers and camera crews are not permitted in the
auditorium. However, a pool feed of the ceremony and the
panel discussion will be available on site for television
outlets and photos will be posted for download at
http://photos.oscars.org/.

Where: Samuel Goldwyn Theater
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
8949 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA

Background: Distinguished in both theater and film, Henry Fonda is
honored by the U.S. Postal Service on the centennial of his
birth.

Stamp artist Drew Struzan based his portrait of Fonda on a
photograph taken by Frank Powolny in 1941. For the selvage,
art director Derry Noyes chose a photograph showing Fonda in
his performance as Tom Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940).

RSVP: Tarrah Curtis, AMPAS, 310-247-3000, Ext. 181

CONTACT: Larry Dozier, +1-323-586-1211, or +1-213-503-9428 (cell), or Rita Peer, +1-202-268-2126, or +1-202-460-2146 (cell), both of U.S. Postal Service.

PRNewswire -- May 18

Source: U.S. Postal Service

Web site: http://www.usps.com/
http://photos.oscars.org/

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