Category Archives: Audrey Hepburn

By Robert J. Avrech | April 25, 2013

Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1950s: The Nun’s Story

Tweet We continue and conclude our survey of the Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1950s. For the Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1940s, click here. For the Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1930s click here. For the Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1920s click here. 20. The Nun’s Story, 1959 Think of Audrey Hepburn and [...]

Also posted in Great Movies, Greatest Movies of the 1950s, Hollywood, Nuns in Hollywood | Tagged A Stranger Among Us, Fred Zinneman, Kathryn C. Hulme, Movies of Faith, Peter Finch, Religious movies, Robert Anderson, Sidney Lumet | 27 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 19, 2012

Endless Love: Happy 35th Anniversary

Tweet I have been in love with my wife Karen since I was nine years old, which is to say for most of my life. We were married in 1977. Today is our 35th anniversary. I’m republishing the first and final chapter of my series How I Married Karen as a tribute to my wife [...]

Also posted in Family, How I Married Karen, Love | Tagged Karen Singer Avrech, Kiddushin, Marriage, Yeshiva Flatbush, Yichud | 16 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 19, 2012

Nuns in Hollywood

Tweet Hollywood has always been fascinated by trashy vamps and holy nuns. Obviously, these polar opposites provoke strong reactions in audiences. Actresses are invariably drawn to playing these roles for both trade in extremes of sexuality: promiscuity and celibacy, great showcases for any thespian. Over the past few months, just by chance, I’ve screened several [...]

Also posted in Lillian Gish, Nuns in Hollywood | Tagged Audrey Hepburn, Black Narcissus, Carroll Baker, Deborah Kerr, Dolores Hart, Elvis Presley, Flora Robson, King Creole, Lillian Gish, Marketa Lazarova, Roger Moore, Ronald Colman, The Miracle, The Nun's Story, The White Sister, Where the Boys Are | 26 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 16, 2010

Diet Tips from Audrey Hepburn

Tweet Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina, 1954. Audrey Hepburn’s son, Sean, authored a lovely and loving memoir about his mother. There are no scandals, no beatings, no abuse. Hepburn was a genuinely good woman who valued family above career. In this brief passage, Sean discusses his mother’s famously trim figure. My mother didn’t snack, but when [...]

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How I Married Karen

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by Robert J. Avrech

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Robert J. Avrech
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I'm an Emmy Award winning screenwriter. I'm also an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. I've been writing and producing in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen—with whom I have been in love with since I was nine years-old—and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen. Not too long ago, we had three children. But our son, Ariel, died at the age of twenty-two from cancer. We miss him terribly. We think about him practically every minute of every day. People tell us that time heals, but Karen and I know this is not true. Time grinds away doing its terrible work. Ariel is gone. Yet absence becomes presence.

Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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