Category Archives: Barbara Stanwyck

“Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it’s nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting — watch the eyes!”

Also posted in Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Movies | Tagged Acting, Barbara Stanwyck, Eyes in Acting, Frank Capra, Movie Acting | 4 Responses

Friday Photos: Just Because the World is Burning…

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 5, 2014

All across the country protests, riots, and race-baiters doing what they do in order to disrupt civil society. We don’t know about you, but here at Seraphic Secret we feel the need for some relief from the endless cycle of horrible, terrible, very bad news. We yearn for beauty, for images that, in one way […]

Also posted in Anna May Wong, Art, Audrey Hepburn, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Gloria Grahame, Hollywood Mirror, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography | Tagged A Woman's Secret, Audrey Hepburn, Desert Nights, Drexel U, James Nares, John Gilbert, John Singer Sargent, Lielle Meital, Ma'ayan Ariel, Mary Nolan, Miss Elsie Palmer | 11 Responses

Hey Kids, Instead of Obama’s Long-Winded Speech… Meet John Doe

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: January 28, 2014

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTj8hd2kbRc[/youtube] Tonight, Obama will be delivering another, no doubt, long-winded hymn to self and the Democrat-Socialist Party of America. For the countless failures and scandals of his administration, Obama will, of course, blame George Bush, Republicans, Trotsky, saboteurs, Jewish settlers, Fox News, the Tea Party, and, sigh, racism. Seraphic Secret is not even going […]

Also posted in Frank Capra, Gary Cooper, Hollywood, Meet John Doe, Obama Watch | Tagged Americanism, Be a better neighbor, Judeo-Christian values, Liberal Facism, Robert Riskin, SOTU Address | 10 Responses

Barbara Stanwyck’s Secrets

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: January 17, 2014

The new Barbara Stanwyck biography, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel True, 1907 – 1940 by Victoria Wilson, is, with appendix, footnotes, index and acknowledgements, over 1,000 pages long. And it is just volume one. This first, full scale bio of Barbara Stanwyck is an exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) study of Hollywood’s greatest actress. Born […]

Also posted in Book Reviews, Books, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars | Tagged Abortion in Hollywood, Bette Davis Joan Crawford, Clifford Odets, Elsa Lanchester, Frank Fay, George Barnes, Gloria Swanson, Grace Kelly, Joan Blondell, Judy garland, Lana Turner, Louise Rainer, Myrna Loy, Nancy Bernard, Rita Hayworth, Victoria Wilson | 10 Responses

How I Married Karen

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by Robert J. Avrech

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About Me
Robert J. Avrech
Los Angeles, California
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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Fifteenth: June 10, 2018
Jackie Danicki: “Confessions of a Convert: A Humbling, Joyful Journey to Judaism.”

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Fourteenth: June 11, 2017
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

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Thirteenth: May 22, 2016Ben Shapiro: “How You Can Save Israel”

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Twelfth: June 7, 2015
Larry Elder: “The New Black Anti-Semitism”

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Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”

Blog Post | Audio: (97MB)

Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”

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Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”

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Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”

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Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”

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Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: “Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?”

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Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: “What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania.”

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