Breakfast at Tiffany’s: The Story of America’s Sweetheart, Audrey Hepburn

Put a Stamp on It

Yet another honor was given to Hepburn. The list of things done in her honor just keeps getting longer and longer. This time it was in the form of a stamp. In 2003, the US Postal Service honored her work as a humanitarian and Hollywood actress with the commemorative 37 cent stamp.

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Other stamps have her iconic face on them too and have even been auctioned off. A stamp with the image from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” was supposed to be published in 2001, and millions of copies had already been printed. But her sons refused to give their consent because Audrey Hepburn was pictured with a cigarette holder in her mouth and. They didn’t want that image immortalized on a stamp.

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