Hollywood icon Gary Cooper gets stamp of approval

Cooper, who died in 1961 aged 60, entered the movies in the 1920s where he found work playing cowboys, the legacy of his upbringing on a ranch in Montana.
"My father would have been very flattered by this honor, but he was always very self deprecating," Cooper's daughter Maria Cooper Janis said Thursday.
"If he were here today, he'd probably say, 'See, look what you get for falling off a horse.'"
Cooper's stamp sees him follow in the footsteps of his close friend, American writer and journalist Ernest Hemingway, who received the same honor in 1989.
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