Category Archives: Fashion

Tweet There was a time when wearing a hat was de rigueur. Fine millinery was considered a sign of good taste, good breeding, and good fashion. Hollywood actresses were rarely seen in public without hat, gloves and a designer outfit. Those were the days when Hollywood insisted on projecting style and glamour. Of course, with the […]

Also posted in Gloria Swanson, Hollywood, Hollywood Hats, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Bennett, Theda Bara | Tagged Agnes Ayres, Ann Harding, Dolores Costello, Gloria Swanson, Hollywood Hats, Joan Bennett, Lili Damita, Theda Bara | Leave a comment

By Robert J. Avrech | March 24, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Friday Fotos, Jewish Holidays, Judaica, Judaism, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Photography, Quotes | Tagged Ava Gardner, Cadillac, Classic Cars, David Niven, Elsa Lanchester, Frank Horvat, Helen Frankenthaler, Night of the Hunter, Packard Motor Car Company, Randall Knives, Rick McGinnis | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 17, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Design, Edward Hopper, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaica, Painting, Photography, Purim, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Bebe Daniels, Bronwyn Oliver, Doni Silver Simons, Dovima, Edward Hopper, Gloria Swanson, Jean Arthur, John Ford, Milton Greene, Moshe Zabari, Richard Avedon, Rick McGinnis, Samuel Rothbort, Toulouse Lautrec, Vilhelm Hammershøi | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 10, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Clara Bow, Doris Day, Family, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Photography, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Quotes, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Clark Gable, Colt Firearms, Doris Day, Elsa Lanchester, Erwin Blumenfeld, Fred Astaire, Gerrit van Honthorst, Ginger Rogers, Gustave Young, Hans Holbein the Younger, Hengki Koentjoro, Hercules Seghers, James Siena, Jane Russell, Lucas Cranach The Elder, My Man Godfrey, Pieter de Hooch, Rick McGinnis, Thomas Nozkowski, Zoë Mozert | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 3, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Family, Friday Fotos, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Judaica, Judaism, Kim Novak, Photography, Quotes, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Beast of the City, Ben Hecht, Bronwyn Oliver, Clyfford Still, Erwin Blumenfeld, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, Hans Holbein the Younger, Hendrick ter Brugghen, Henri Matisse, John Singleton Copley, Matisse, Pieter Coode, Rick McGinnis, Veronica Lake, Willem Buytewech | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 20, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Barbara Stanwyck, Donald Trump, Elvis Presley, Friday Fotos, Grace Kelly, Henry Fonda, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jennifer Jones, Judaism, Marilyn Monroe, Melania Trump, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Quotes, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions, Winston Churchill | Tagged Antoon Van Welie, David Gelernter, Dovima, Edgar Degas, Elvis Presley, Erwin Blumenfeld, Fei Fei Sun, George Krause, Grace Kelly, Jennifer Jones, Norton Simon, Omega, Petersen Automotive Museum, Rick McGinnis, Samuel Rothbort, Simeon Solomon, The Lady Eve, Tim Walker, Twilight Zone, Xiao Wen Ju | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 23, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaica, Marlon Brando, Movies, Painting, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Andre Barre, Basil Rathbone, Edouard Boubat, Edvard Munch, Edward Hopper, Francis Ford Coppola, George Hurrell, Geraldine Chaplin, Horst P. Horst, Jacob Lawrence, John Sloan, Marianne Breslauer, Mario Puzo, Mia Farrow, Milton Avery, Mina Avrech, Mina K. Avrech Collection, Olive Cotton, Ori Resheff, Rod Serling, The Godfather, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 1, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Design, Friday Fotos, Helen Twelvetrees, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Kim Novak, Livia Yarden, Marlon Brando, Movies, Painting, Photography, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Quotes, Screenwriting, The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged (My) Burgers, Edvard Munch, Edward Hopper, Fan Ho, Helen Twelvetrees, Horst B. Horst, Kim Novak, Livia Yarden, Miriam Hopkins, On the Waterfront, Patek Philippe, Rare Watches, Robert Motherwell, Sari Srulovitch, Utamaro, William Michael Harnett | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | March 18, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Friday Fotos, Gene Tierney, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jewish Holidays, Lauren Bacall, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Purim, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Andrea del Castagno, Angelica Kauffmann, Book of Esther, Bruce Cohen, Dovima, Esther and the King, Gene Tierney, Gerrit Dou, Horst P. Horst, Joan Collins, Joan Miro, John Everett Millais, Kasimir Malevich, Leon Bakst, Murnau, Nasreen Mohamedi, Nosferatu, Palma Vecchio, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard Avedon, The Honeysuckle Bower, Twilight, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Vivien Maier | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 26, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions, How to be Beautiful

Also posted in Art, Friday Footwear, Greta Garbo, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Self-Portrait, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Angelika Kauffmann, Anna Waser, Charlie Chaplin, Clifford Still, Elisabetta Sirani, Eugene Robert Richee, Francesco del Cairo, George Dambier, Giovanni Fattori, Greta Garbo, Helen Frankenthaler, Ilse Bing, Irving Penn, Lotte Beese, Louise Brooks, Makeup in Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe, Self-Portrait, shoes, Steve Cohn, Vivian Maier | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 12, 2014

Friday Photos: Just Because the World is Still Burning…

Tweet It’s been another terrible, horrible very bad week with the release of a Democrat, ahem, study, that seeks to persecute President George W. Bush and the CIA for their efforts to protect America against genocidal IslamoNazis. The Democrat Senate report is a lynching, just as the Ferguson riots are lynch mobs, and just as […]

Also posted in Audrey Hepburn, Clark Gable, Friday Footwear, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Jews of Samarkand, Judaism, Lielle Meital, Maayan Ariel, Marilyn Monroe, Obama Watch, Photography, Photography, Family, Girls Love Footwear | Tagged art, Irving Penn, James Nares, Jewish Children in Samarkand, John F. Peto, Karen, Lielle Meital, Ma'ayan Ariel, Monk Strap Shoes, North Korea Hacks Sony, Painting, Red Dust, Sony Studios, Utagawa Hiroshige, Wayne F. Miller | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 28, 2014

Friday Photos: Still Scattered

Tweet We hope all our readers had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving. Keeping to last week’s theme of eschewing a theme, Seraphic Secret is, once again, indulging in a collection of random photos that we like for various reasons. We hope you do too.

Also posted in Anna May Wong, Art, Brigitte Bardot, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe, Seven Samurai | Tagged Brigitte Bardot, Gun Crazy, James Nares, Jan Vermeer, Self Portraits, Self-Portrait, Shabbat, Shachareet, Tefillin | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 2, 2014

Take #1: The Meaning of Leaning in Hollywood

Tweet Leaning boards ( also called Slant boards) were invented for Hollywood players to relax between takes. Frequently, the costumes were cut on the bias, and tailored so snugly that the actor could not sit down without bursting a ladder of seams. In fact, most of the time, there were no zippers or buttons on […]

Also posted in Adrian, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Leaning Boards, Movies, Photography, Rita Hayworth, Tony Curtis | Tagged Adrian, Agnes Moorhead, Ann Miller, Ann Sheridan, Barbara Jo Allen, Boris Karloff, Charles Vidor, Dolores Gray, Hedy Lamarr, Janet Gaynor, Janet Leigh, Jean Harlow, Joan Blondell, Joan Collins, June Allyson, Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, Tony Curtis | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 10, 2014

Friday Footwear

Tweet ObamaCare is creating financial and healthcare instability for millions of Americans. Foreign governments have come to understand that Obama has no interest in asserting America’s dominant role in world affairs. Thus, our allies despair, even as IslamoNazis ruthlessly fill the void created by Obama’s policies of appeasement. In reaction to the prevailing political gloom, […]

Also posted in Friday Footwear, Obamacare | Tagged Anne Francis, Charlotte Olympia, Chiara Ferragni, Forbidden Planet, Jimmy Choo, Nicholas Kirkwood, Robby the Robot, Sophia Webster, Stubbs and Wootton, Thea Cadabra | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | September 25, 2013

Valley of the Modest Dolls

Tweet Seraphic Secret likes to follow trends in fashion. Our mission is to ignore the slutwear that parades as cutting edge design and focus instead on beautifully tailored outfits that are both flattering, ladylike, and modest. As always, we do not highlight pant suits; they are a crime against femininity. We are happy to report […]

Also posted in Brigitte Bardot, Edith Head, Hollywood, Vertigo | Tagged Edith Head, Grace Kelly, Henry Kress, Hollywood Costume Design, Kim Novak, Oscar de la Renta, Roksanda Ilincic, Simchat Torah, Temperley, Tippi Hedrin | 10 Responses

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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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Fourteenth: June 11, 2016
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

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Thirteenth: May 22, 2016
Ben 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.”

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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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