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Austrians in Hollywood - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2012 - 70 Euro Cent

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Austrians in Hollywood - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2012 - 70 Euro Cent


Theme: Art & Culture
CountryAustria / II. Republic of Austria
Issue Date2012
Face Value70.00 
Edition Issued811,500
Printing Typeoffset
Stamp TypeDefinitive
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number2323
Chronological ChapterOOS-OE2
SID219605
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With the new special stamp "Turhan Bey" the popular series "Austrians in Hollywood" now finds its continuation. The 0.70 euro value charmingly honors the actor who attracted international attention in the 1940s as the leading actor in several Hollywood productions. About the Person: Turhan Bey, born March 30, 1922 in Vienna as Turhan Gilbert Selahattin Sahultavy, was the son of a Turkish diplomat and a Czech Jewess. After the invasion of the Nazis in Vienna, the family emigrated to America in 1940. As a teenager, Turhan Bey began acting studies, first at the Pasadena Playhouse in California and later at the Drama School in Beverly Hills. Talent scouts from Warner Brothers discovered and hired him in 1941 as a partner of Errol Flynn in the movie "Footsteps in the Dark", followed shortly after the strips "Shadows on the Stairs" and "Destination unknown". As a result, Turhan Bey was often cast for exotic roles; with his frequent film partner, the well-known María Montez, he was among others in "Raiders of the Desert", "Arab Nights", "Bombay Clipper", "Ali Baba and the 40 robbers", "Follow the Boys", "Sudan" and many other productions, some of them in horror movies. Other partners Turhan Beys were cinema greats such as Katharine Hepburn, Lana Turner, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Brenda Marshall, Walter Houston, Joan Hall and Merle Oberon. Towards the end of the forties, the star of Turhan Bey gradually began to decline. In 1953 he made his last film, "Prisoners of the Casbah"; then he ended his career and returned to Vienna, where he took over the cinemas of his family and began to intensively deal with landscape photography, before he was invited by producer David Gest 1989 for a show in 1993 Turhan Bey experienced a renaissance on TV : After a performance in the television series "SeaQuest DSV" followed after 40 years of shooting break in the nineties, a number of other international film and television roles. For example, he appeared in two episodes of the science fiction series "Babylon 5" and in the TV crime series "Murder is Her Hobby". In 2002, a documentary film about the star of yesteryear, titled: "Happied from Happiness. Vienna - Hollywood - Retour ".

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With the new special stamp "Turhan Bey" the popular series "Austrians in Hollywood" now finds its continuation. The 0.70 euro value charmingly honors the actor who attracted international attention in the 1940s as the leading actor in several Hollywood productions. About the Person: Turhan Bey, born March 30, 1922 in Vienna as Turhan Gilbert Selahattin Sahultavy, was the son of a Turkish diplomat and a Czech Jewess. After the invasion of the Nazis in Vienna, the family emigrated to America in 1940. As a teenager, Turhan Bey began acting studies, first at the Pasadena Playhouse in California and later at the Drama School in Beverly Hills. Talent scouts from Warner Brothers discovered and hired him in 1941 as a partner of Errol Flynn in the movie "Footsteps in the Dark", followed shortly after the strips "Shadows on the Stairs" and "Destination unknown". As a result, Turhan Bey was often cast for exotic roles; with his frequent film partner, the well-known María Montez, he was among others in "Raiders of the Desert", "Arab Nights", "Bombay Clipper", "Ali Baba and the 40 robbers", "Follow the Boys", "Sudan" and many other productions, some of them in horror movies. Other partners Turhan Beys were cinema greats such as Katharine Hepburn, Lana Turner, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Brenda Marshall, Walter Houston, Joan Hall and Merle Oberon. Towards the end of the forties, the star of Turhan Bey gradually began to decline. In 1953 he made his last film, "Prisoners of the Casbah"; then he ended his career and returned to Vienna, where he took over the cinemas of his family and began to intensively deal with landscape photography, before he was invited by producer David Gest 1989 for a show in 1993 Turhan Bey experienced a renaissance on TV : After a performance in the television series "SeaQuest DSV" followed after 40 years of shooting break in the nineties, a number of other international film and television roles. For example, he appeared in two episodes of the science fiction series "Babylon 5" and in the TV crime series "Murder is Her Hobby". In 2002, a documentary film about the star of yesteryear, titled: "Happied from Happiness. Vienna - Hollywood - Retour "..