Seraphic Secret

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

Gary Cooper

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“There are worse things in life than being called a lady… I always demanded respect. I came prepared and expected others to do the same.”
—Irene Dunne

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.“
—Gary Cooper

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.”
—Gary Cooper

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I really don’t remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.”
—Elizabeth Taylor

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Hollywood — Play Ball!

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Buster Keaton was a fanatic baseball player. When he had his own production company, he frequently hired staff based on their talent as basebalk players.
Buster Keaton was a fanatic baseball player. When he had his own production company, he frequently hired staff based on their batting and fielding abilities.

Ever since Hollywood invented itself as a universal dream factory, movies about baseball were viewed as the perfect landscape in which to explore themes of loyalty, ambition, competition, and of course, love.

More than any other sports genre, baseball movies have dominated the silver screen.

And of course, Hollywood publicity departments frequently used baseball to promote and sell their stars.

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