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Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Sometimes I think we lay too much stress on freedom. No one can be absolutely free, When we cut every tie that binds us to our families or shed every responsibility toward other people, are we really free or are we merely alone?”
—Norma Shearer

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I’ve never had a dull moment in my life. I’ve always wanted to try something new. When I was a child, I wouldn’t wear what the other kids had. I won’t now. I had the first pantie girdle, the first broadtail suit, the first sack dress — from Givenchy. I was even the first Gloria. Everybody named their children after me. I can always tell how old Glorias are.”
—Gloria Swanson
Photo by Charles Sheldon, 1925

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Whenever you hear the beat of my feet, it is really the beat of my heart saying, Thank you and God bless you.”
—Eleanor Powell

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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I’ve often said to young actresses whom I noticed were affected by the adulation – ‘Don’t let these people impress you; you know it doesn’t mean a thing when they make a fuss over you. They’ll forget you tomorrow.’”
—Carole Lombard

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I made my own image because I refused to change my name or my hair. They wanted to change me completely when I first came over because that was the standard thing to do. They took stars from Hungary, Germany, France, and tried to change them – to make them more beautiful to American eyes, I suppose. But then they became just like all the other American stars that were there. Lots of publicity stills in bathing suits and hats and all that.”
—Ingrid Bergman

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