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

True Hollywood Confessions

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“There’s a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away with it. I’d hate to see them on stage with a dog act.” —Joan Blondell

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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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“Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!”
—Lee Remick

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“They give me feeble-minded parts. I don’t object, you understand, but when the writers tell me they wrote the part with me in mind, I begin to wonder.”
—Miriam Hopkins

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“The writer is the most important person in Hollywood — and no one must let him find out.”
—Irving Thalberg

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