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

Rita Hayworth

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“I tend to be a glass-half-full person most of the time. We don’t get to choose the outcome of our endeavors, but any challenge is ultimately a learning experience whether it’s successful or not.”
—Julie Andrews (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1935 – )

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“I get angry when I hear other actors blame the studios for all their problems. It really bothered me when Judy Garland used to say, ‘The studio made me do this, the studio made me do that.’ Nobody makes you do anything. You make your own choices.”
— RIP Jane Powell ((born Suzanne Lorraine Burce; 1929 – 2021)

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“All acting technique aims for the same result: to get you into a psychological position where you can release your intuitive knowledge of life, however large or small. Any technique that doesn’t do that for you comes out as mannerism.”
—Claire Bloom (b. 1931 – )

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Rita Hayworth in the famous gown Jean Louis designed for Gilda, 1946
Jean Louis: “But, you know, Columbia didn’t have many stars to design for. They had Rita Hayworth. Period. So I tried to make everything for her very special, because it was also my chance to do things, to do special things. She was very easy. She wore what we gave her. Rita was absolutely the most marvelous girl, but she stand like this, and that’s it, you fit her. She hate to fit. ‘Get me out of it.’ That’s it. That’s all she says. But I had great freedom in how I dressed her. She never, never said I don’t like one thing – she’s really wonderful, no trouble. With Rita you always had to design to show off her body – not her legs, but her body; I mean you couldn’t put her in a business suit. Not because the studio would have objected, but because that was her personality. Rita Hayworth was known for that, for being a beautiful woman, and people didn’t want to see Rita Hayworth in a business suit.”
—excerpt “People Will Talk” by John Kobal

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“Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn’t started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out of my purse and shot him, because I am the only person who would not have been searched.” ~ Greta Garbo, photographed by Edward Steichen, 1929

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