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25 NOOD 23 1990 90028 GONE WITH THE WINOD 770H The WIZARD OF TWOOD 23 1990 90028 25 CA (770H 25 LLYW WOOD 23 1990 BEAU GESTE 90028 CA 770H STAGECOACH OLLIMOOD 25 23 1990 90028

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GONE WITH THE WIND First Day of Issue: March 23, 1990 First Issue Location: Hollywood, California Gone With the Wind is an unforgettable masterpiece based on Margaret Mitchell's compelling novel of the Civil War South with sterling performances by Clark Gable as the dashing Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as the spoiled beauty. It received ten Academy Awards, includ- ing Best Picture, Best Actress — Vivien Leigh — and Best Supporting Actress — Hattie McDaniel, the first black to win an Oscar. Nearly three years of extensive advance publicity virtually guaranteed the success of the film. Despite the aura of excitement and anticipation, Gone With the Wind was almost not made. Producer David O. Selznick at first rejected the novel's story as too long and involved for the big screen, and passed up the movie rights. Only after a change of heart did Selznick translate the novel into the longest film made to that date — 3 hours and 39 minutes — and the epic movie packed theaters with record-breaking ticket sales. Today, the movie's popularity is undiminished, an American institution which thrills new generations the world over. No. 90-10 GONE WITH THE WIND ©1939 Selznick International Pictures, ©Renewed 1967 MGM, Inc., ©1990 Turner Entertainment Co. The image, likeness, and name and certain other publicity rights of the actor Clark Gable are used with permission of their owner, Gable Estates & Co., represented by The Roger Richman Agency, Inc. The image, likeness, and name and certain other publicity rights of the actress Vivien Leigh are used with permission of their owner, Suzanne Farrington, represented by The Roger Richman Agency, Inc. ©1990 The Maximum Card Collection A Division of Unicover Corporation • Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007 Original painting by Tom McNeely THE WIZARD OF OZ First Day of Issue: March 23, 1990 First Issue Location: Hollywood, California The Wizard of Oz easily ranks as the happiest, most beloved movie ever made. Modern audiences, like their counterparts of yesteryear, are captivated by the youthful innocence of Dorothy — immortalized by Judy Garland, “Over the Rainbow's” timeless message and the Witch of the West's spine-tingling wickedness. The wonderful Wicked Witch character, the casting of talents like Gar- land as Dorothy, Frank Morgan as Oz, Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow, Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion, Jack Haley as the Tinman, and Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West, plus the use of dazzling special effects worked together to make the 1939 production — one of the first films to use color – a magical and enduring celebration of innocence and imagination. No wonder the actors and actresses themselves achieved such im- mortality for the characters they portrayed. No. 90-9 ©1990 The Maximum Card Collection A Division of Unicover Corporation Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007 Original painting by Tom McNeely THE WIZARD OF OZ ©1939 Loew's, Inc., ©Renewed 1966 MGM, Inc., ©1990 Turner Entertainment Co. Judy Garland by license of Judy Garland Heirs' Trust, Curtis Management Group. BEAU GESTE First Day of Issue: March 23, 1990 First Issue Location: Hollywood, California The original silent film of Beau Geste was made in 1926 with Ronald Coleman in the title role and Noah Beery as the tyrannical Sgt. Makoff. Gary Cooper portrayed Beau Geste and Brian Donleavy the sergeant in William Well- man's 1939 remake. Now considered a classic in its own right, the remake was at first sharply criticized for paral- leling the 1926 original almost scene for scene. Some reviewers promptly declared it little more than a “talking mummy of the original.” Fortunately, Newsweek and New York's World-Telegraph praised the new picture in glowing terms and audiences swarmed to see the three dashing, upper-class Brothers Geste, would-be heroes destined for tragedy played by Cooper, Ray Milland and Robert Preston. One brother steals a precious family jewel so their aunt won't be forced to sell it. The trio leaves home in disgrace to contend with desert varmints and Foreign Legion tyrant Sgt. Makoff, each Geste brother taking the blame for the crime. In the end, only one survives to discover the theft was unnecessary. No. 90-11 ©1990 The Maximum Card Collection A Division of Unicover Corporation • Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007 Original painting by Tom McNeely BEAU GESTE ©1939 by Paramount Pictures, Renewed 1966 by EMKA. The image, likeness, and name and certain other publicity rights of the actor Gary Cooper are used with permission of their owner, the Estate of Gary Cooper, represented by The Roger Richman Agency, Inc. STAGECOACH First Day of Issue: March 23, 1990 First Issue Location: Hollywood, California With his marvelous 1939 western, Stagecoach, director John Ford ended the ten years of jerky artifice that had been "the talkies." This intricate, brilliantly-directed, action-packed adventure allowed audiences to gallop recklessly across the Apache-menaced plains of Arizona alongside well-developed and complex characters su- perbly played by John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell, George Bancroft, Berton Churchill, John Car- radine, Donald Meek and others — all splendidly photo- graphed by Bert Glennon. It is a story of the relationships among passengers during an angst-ridden stagecoach journey punctuated by an Indian attack by Geronimo and his fearsome band, the impending birth of a baby, and a shootout between outlaw Ringo Kid — played by John Wayne — and the evil Plummer boys. Though similar plots had graced the big screen, none had been brought to life the way Stagecoach was. It demonstrated that westerns could simultaneously be timeless, attractive, se- rious, action-packed films. No. 90-12 ©1990 The Maximum Card Collection A Division of Unicover Corporation Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007 Original painting by Tom McNeely STAGECOACH ©1939 Walter Wanger Productions, Inc., © renewed 1967 by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. The image, likeness, and name and certain other publicity rights of the actor John Wayne are used with permission of their owner, Wayne Enterprises, Inc., represented by The Roger Richman Agency, Inc.