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

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Professionally, my career was great, but never was the scene offstage great for me.”
—Betty Hutton

Christen Dalsgaard
Danish painter (b. 1824, Skive, Jutland, d. 1907, Sorø)
Surely He Will Come?
1879
Oil on canvas, 56 x 45 cm
Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen

 

Rick McGinnis
Barcelona, Summer 1998

 

Japanese Typewriter
1940
Nippon Typewriter Co., Ltd.
Tokyo & Osaka, Japan

 

Ida Lupino, 1930s

 

Vintage Swedish poster for the classic Trouble in Paradise, 1932.

 

“Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.”
—Loretta Young

 

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
Danish painter (b. 1783, Blakrog, d. 1853, København)
Mendel Levin Nathanson’s Elder Daughters, Bella and Hanna
1820
Oil on canvas, 125 x 86 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

 

Model wearing a “Vanity Fair” gown, photo by Mark Shaw, 1952

 

1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900

 

Myrna Loy photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1930s

 

Andy Galsowrthy
Earth and Leaves sculpture

 

(…) Garbo was always bitter when talking about her life. We could see that she was unhappy. She would often say that she would give anything to be able to live her life again and be independent. “Promise me, Laila,” Garbo said, “That you will never let money or fame or other people control your life. Get married and have a home and family — or else you’ll just end up unhappy like me.”
Conversations with Greta Garbo by Sven Broman

 

Vilhelm Hammershoi
Danish painter (b. 1864, København, d. 1916, København)
Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor
1901
Oil on canvas, 47 x 52 cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

 

Simone d’Aillencourt at Penn Station, New York, 1959, photo by William Helburn

 

Paris, 1958. Photo by Robert Doisneau

 

Young Jewish girls. Oudjda, Morocco, 1911

 

Tank Cintrée, Cartier London, c. 1929 Yellow gold, pink gold, sapphire cabochon, leather strap Sold to Fred Astaire who presented it as a gift to a friend named Felix in 1929, as indicated by engraving on the case back.

 

It’s a Wonderful Life, 1946
Screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Jo Swerling, Frank Capra
Based on “The Greatest Gift” by Philip Van Doren Stern

 

Pinchas Tzvi wishes all our friends and relatives a lovely and inspirational Shabbat.

 

Ed Ruscha, END, 1983, oil on canvas, 36 x 40 inches

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  1. That photo my Mark Shaw is breathtaking. No iPhone multiple exposures, no motor drive, just one exposure planned and executed to put on film what the photographer conceived in his mind’s eye. Brilliant.

  4. How many times did Loretta Young play a nun? I noticed you had Celeste Holm last week. She and Young played the nuns in a movie I remember very well called “Come to the Stable.”

  5. Myrna Loy, another beautiful Cartier watch, an Alfa Romeo (although I’d still rather have a green Morgan with tan leather seats), BB (ooo la la), “It’s a Wonderful Life“, and, of course, Pinchas Tzvi behind the wheel.

    It’s been a difficult week and I so look forward to your Friday Photos edition, Robert. Thank you and have a blessed Sabbath.

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