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

Lana Turner

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“If I had any real talent then, it was for designing clothes. I loved the costumes in the movies… If I hadn’t gone into the movies, I’d have become a dress designer; that’s where I seemed to be heading. And I think I’d have been a damn fine one.”
~ Lana Turner: The Lady, the Legend, the Truth by Lana Turner

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“It was a terrific strain making ‘Gone With the Wind,’ and toward the end our nerves were all shot. And no wonder! We worked under three different directors, first George Cukor, then Victor Fleming and finally, Sam Wood. No sooner did we get used to the ideas of one director than a new one was brought in, and we had to learn to work with each in turn.”
— Vivien Leigh

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“I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise lounge, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.”
—Olivia de Havilland, RIP (1916 – 2020)

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“I had to be careful where I went because I was a Jew, because I was young and because I was handsome. It made me wary and erratic and paranoid, which is what I still am. Always on guard.”
—Tony Curtis (b. Bernard Schwartz; 1925 – 2010)

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“When we were at MGM, we worked years before anybody called us stars. Louis B. Mayer brought us along in little parts – even ‘Love Finds Andy Hardy.’ Then, if we showed promise, he would put us opposite the established stars – like Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, Spencer Tracy – who could lend us the power of their names.
“Then, when we became established, he would costar the rising young players with us.
“Believe me, when the time came for us to move from the featured players’ building into the building of the star’s dressing rooms, it was a thrilling event in your life. It was like entering a new kingdom in which you were the queen.”
—Lana Turner

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