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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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“It will be fun to be the first Jewish queen of Egypt.”
—Elizabeth Taylor on playing Cleopatra. Her comment caused outrage in Egypt.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I’d like people to remember me as someone who was good at his job and seemed to mean what he said.”
—James Stewart revisits one of the air force bases where he was stationed during his service with the United States Army Air Corps during WWII.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Standing there in white shirt, beige slacks—with a peach complexion, light-brown hair, and the most incredible face ever seen by man—was Greta Garbo. I almost gasped out loud as Cole introduced me to her. No make-up—unmatched beauty. It was the only time I saw her at anything but a distance.” –
—Lauren Bacall, speaking of her encounter with Garbo at Cole Porter’s home.

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“Becoming a sex symbol overnight shocked me. I didn’t know how to handle it and I kept all the unopened fan mail in the boot of my car because I didn’t know how to respond and thought it was rude to throw it away. Then my mother became my secretary and replied to the really inappropriate ones saying: ‘My daughter’s far too old for you. Go take a cold shower!’”
Diana Rigg, 1938 – 2020 RIP

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Sylvia Sidney, c.1934
“She was the only American film actress who reminded me of reality.”
—James Baldwin

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