Category Archives: Movies

Tweet Director Michael Powell and screenwriter Emeric Pressburger were responsible for some of the finest, most distinctive movies made in Britain from the late 30s to the late 40s: The Spy in Black (1939), The Thief of Bagdad (1940), 49th Parallel (1941), One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942), The Life and Death of Colonel […]

Also posted in Chaim Weizmann, Christianity, Emeric Pressburger, Great Movies, Hollywood, Michael Powell, Quotes, Screenwriting | Tagged Chaim Weizmann, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, Movies | 3 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 2, 2018

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Movie Posters, Photography, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Quotes, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Anne Truitt, Brigitte Bardot, Diego Velazquez, Dorothy Malone, Dovima, Evsa Model, Faye Dunaway, Fred Lyon, Horst P. Horst, John French, Leslie Caron, Madeleine Carroll, Mark Shaw, Olivia de Havilland, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard Avedon, Rick McGinnis, The Tarnished Angels, William Helburn | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 1, 2018

New Year, Old Hollywood: 2018

Tweet After one year of the Trump presidency we are hopeful and optimistic. Obama’s JV team, ISIS, has been nearly wiped out. Neil Gorsuch sits on the Supreme Court. The Keystone pipeline is, at last, open. The individual mandate is gone. Which spells the beginning off the end for Obamacare. More and more federal lands […]

Also posted in Donald Trump, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Lizabeth Scott, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Pickford, Myrna Loy, New Years | Tagged Betty Grable, Buster Keaton, Greta Herwig, Holiday Inn, Janet Leigh, Joan Crawford, Lady Bird, Laurie Metcalf, Lizabeth Scott, Loretta Young, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Pickford, Myrna Loy, Saoirse Ronan, Shirley Temple | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 22, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Donna Reed, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Fontaine, Kirk Douglas, Madge Evans, Marlene Dietrich, Movie Posters, Myrna Loy, Painting, Quotes, Screenwriting, Spencer Tracy, True Hollywood Confessions, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters | Tagged Cartier, Donna Reed, Federico Zandomeneghi, Francis Ford Coppola, Irving Penn, John White Alexander, Madge Evans, Mario Puzo, Marlene Dietrich, Rick McGinnis, Spencer Tracy, The Godfather, Tobi Kahn, Vilhelm Hammershøi | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 15, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Chanukah, Dovima, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Kim Novak, Movie Posters, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters | Tagged Daniel Mainwaring, Dovima, Francesco Bacchiacca, Jane Greer, Kathleen Byron, Kim Novak, Lauren Bacall, Out of the Past, Richard Avedon, Robert Mitchum, Rock Hudson, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Tiffany, Veronica Lake | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 1, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Dovima, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, India, Judaica, Louise Brooks, Mae Clarke, Movie Posters, Painting, Photography, Quotes, True Hollywood Confessions, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters | Tagged Brigitte Bardot, Celeste Holm, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Dovima, Elizabeth Taylor, Elsa Lanchester, James Abbot McNeill Whistler, John Ruskin, Katherine Hepburn, Lawren Stewart Harris, Mae Clarke, Marlene Dietrich, Richard Avedon, Tiffany, Vermeer, Vintage Cars, Wayne Sorce | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 17, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Art Deco, Brigitte Bardot, Design, Fashion, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaica, Judaism, Movie Posters, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters | Tagged Adam de Coster, Alternative Movie Posters, Barbara Stanwyck, Barthel Bruyn the Elder, Brigitte Bardot, Cartier, Celia Singer, Frank Sinatra, Ingrid Bergman, Kim Novak, Lawren Stewart Harris, Livia Yarden, Lucas Cranach The Elder, Milton Avery, Myrna Loy, Pickup on South Street, Sam Fuller, Vincent van Gogh, Vintage Typewriters | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 15, 2017

Hidden Hollywood: Seven Obscure Jewish Films

Tweet What’s a Jewish film? My definition is quite simple. It is a film that deals with Jewish subject matter. Thus, Woody Allen does not make Jewish films. In truth, Hollywood movies that do deal with Judaism are quite rare. Take a look at the subject headings in Netflix. There is no category for Jewish […]

Also posted in Hidden Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Israel, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Hollywood, Judaism, Kirk Douglas, Movie Posters | Tagged Al Jolson, Elissa Landy, Franchot Tone, Frank Capra, Hungry Hearts, Kirk Douglas, Straight is the Way, Symphony of Six Million, The Jazz Singer, The Juggler, The Yellow Ticket, The Younger Generation | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 8, 2017

10 Must See War Movies

Tweet There is no subject as well suited for the movies as war. In war there is conflict, love, and of course lots of action. Movies, said Hitchcock, are just like life, but with the boring parts cut out. Thus, movies about war delete the incredible boredom of most war-time experiences in favor of the […]

Also posted in Actors, Australia, Finland, Great Movies, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Lawrence of Arabia, Military, Myrna Loy, Peter O'Toole, Russia, Seven Samurai, Ten Greatest War Movies, War, War Movies, World War II, Zulu | Tagged Brest Fortress, City of Life and Death, Come and See, Cuckoo, Lawrence of Arabia, Ride With The Devil, Seven Samurai, The Lighthorsemen, Winter War, Zulu | 20 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 3, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Marlene Dietrich, Movie Posters, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Veronica Lake, Vertigo | Tagged Alternative Movie Posters, Anne Frank, Art Deco, Art Deco Radios, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edward Hopper, Frans van Mieris, Gerard ter Borch, Johannes Vermeer, Kim Novak, Marlene Dietrich, Moira Dryer, Myrna Loy, Photography, Rear Window, Rick McGinnis, The Birds, Utagawa Kunisada, Veronica Lake | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 27, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Also posted in Art, Brigitte Bardot, Family, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Fontaine, Movie Posters, Painting, Photography, Quotes, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Alternative Posters, Andrea Vaccaro, Art Deco, Bette Davis, Brigitte Bardot, Charles Sheeler, Dennis Stock, Edward Hopper, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Joan Fontaine, Johannes Vermeer, Mark Rothko, Master of the Story of Joseph, Paul Strand, Picasso, Quentin Metsys, Tatsuya Tanaka, Vermeer, Vintage Cars, Willy Ronis | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 11, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Tweet Once again Friday Photos appears on Wednesday due to the last days of Sukkot which begin tonight and then run into Shabbat. Enjoy!

Also posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Betty Grable, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Still Photography, Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Movie Posters, Painting, Photography, Quotes, True Hollywood Confessions, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Allan Grant, Alternative Movie Posters, Bernard Picart, Betty Grable, Buster Keaton, Edward Hopper, Efrat, Eileen Gray, Eugene Robert Richee, Gail Patrick, Gene Kelly, Gerrit Dou, Hendrick Terbrugghen, Hoshana Rabbah, Louise Brooks, Morgan Auto, Picasso, Preston Sturges, Richard Avedon, Richard Burton, Rick McGinnis, Robert Doisneau, Simchat Torah, Sukkot, To Catch a Thief | 2 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 4, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Tweet No, you have not fallen into a time warp. It is Wednesday. So: why Friday Photos today? The celebration of Succos starts tonight and continues into Shabbat. And because Orthodox Jews (that’s us) do not use electronics during these holidays you get Friday Photos early. We hope you enjoy this edition.

Also posted in Art, Brigitte Bardot, Cary Grant, Family, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jewish Holidays, Judaism, Movie Posters, Myrna Loy, Photography, Quotes, Sandra Dee, Succos, True Hollywood Confessions, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters | Tagged Alternative Movie Posters, Bernard Palissy, Cary Grant, Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun, Follow the Fleet, Ginger Rogers, Horst P. Horst, Marilyn Monroe, Myrna Loy, Sandra Dee, Shabbat, Succos | 6 Responses

How I Married Karen

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by Robert J. Avrech

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About Me
Robert J. Avrech
Los Angeles, California
I'm an Emmy Award winning screenwriter. I'm also an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. I've been writing and producing in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen—with whom I have been in love with since I was nine years-old—and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen. Not too long ago, we had three children. But our son, Ariel, died at the age of twenty-two from cancer. We miss him terribly. We think about him practically every minute of every day. People tell us that time heals, but Karen and I know this is not true. Time grinds away doing its terrible work. Ariel is gone. Yet absence becomes presence.

Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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Fourteenth: June 11, 2016
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

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Thirteenth: May 22, 2016
Ben Shapiro: “How You Can Save Israel”

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Twelfth: June 7, 2015
Larry Elder: “The New Black Anti-Semitism”

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Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”

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Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”

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Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”

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Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”

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Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”

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Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: “Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?”

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Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: “What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania.”

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