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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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“You have to be hard-boiled to get through life whether you’re a shopgirl, a debutante or a movie star.”
—Jean Harlow

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“I was in Hollywood for years under contract to MGM, RKO and Paramount… I don’t know how many others. Actually, I do, but who cares?”
—Gloria Grahame, 1973 interview

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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 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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