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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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“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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“I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.”
—Tanya Roberts, (born Victoria Leigh Blum, 1955 – 2021) RIP

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“If I had to do it all over again, I’d go into genetic medicine.”
—Dawn Wells, RIP (1938 – 2020)

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“Me, I’m good at nothing but walking on the set with a pretty dress.”
—Sandra Dee (born Alexandra Zuck; 1942 – 2005)

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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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