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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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“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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“Women aren’t very glamorous anymore. You pick up a magazine and read about their going to a psychoanalyst. You see pictures of them around the house, and they look exactly like the people next door.”
—Barbara Nichols (born, Barbara Marie Nickerauer 1928 – 1976)

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“I never thought of myself as a movie star. I’m just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top – and never fell off.”
—Susan Hayward (born Edythe Marrenner; 1917 – 1975)

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“I was, I am afraid, wildly infatuated with love. At the age of sixteen – when I looked about twenty four – I was playing Robert Taylor’s wife. I’d finish a passionate love scene with him and then the tutor would drag me away to study mathematics. I mean it really kind of made your eyes go crossed.”
—Elizabeth Taylor

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“Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.”
—Dolores del Rio

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