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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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“I’ve never had a dull moment in my life. I’ve always wanted to try something new. When I was a child, I wouldn’t wear what the other kids had. I won’t now. I had the first pantie girdle, the first broadtail suit, the first sack dress — from Givenchy. I was even the first Gloria. Everybody named their children after me. I can always tell how old Glorias are.”
—Gloria Swanson
Photo by Charles Sheldon, 1925

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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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“I came over here to act, but it turned out all I had to do was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved and decorative.”
—Deborah Kerr

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.”
—Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; Yiddish: ישור דניאלאָװיטש‎; December 9, 1916)

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