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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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“I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood’s rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.”
—Gene Tierney

‘The Matchmaker’ (1625) by Gerard van Honthorst, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

 

Photo by Albert Watson

 

Prototype Tea Service
Designed by Eliel Saarinen (American (born Finland), Rantasalmi 1873–1950 Bloomfield Hills, Michigan)
Manufacturer: International Silver Company, Wilcox Silver Plate Company Division (Meriden, Connecticut)
Date: ca. 1933–35
Electroplated nickel silver, brass, and Bakelite
Dimensions: Tea Urn, 1a-c: H. 14-1/2, D. 11 in. (36.8 x 19.7 cm)
Tray, 2: H. 5/8 Diam. 17-5/8 in. (44.5 cm)
Creamer, 3: H. 3, W. 6, D. 3-7/8 in. (7.6 x 15.2 x 9.8 cm)
Sugar Bowl, 4a,b: H. 6-3/4, W. 6, D. 3-7/8 in. (17.1 x 15.2 x 9.8 cm)
Large Tray, 5: H. 1/2 Diam. 20-3/8 in. (51.4 cm)

 

Marilyn Monroe on board the USS Benham, 1951. Photo by John Florea

 

Cartier Art Deco Lipstick Holder/Watch, circa 1930

 

Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal in The Fountainhead, 1949
Screenplay by Ayn Rand based on her novel

 

Talbot-Lago T-150 C LS Cabriolet Torpedo by Figoni et Falaschi, 1938

 

“In the days before zoom lenses and advanced electronics, cameras often had to be mounted on great cumbersome cranes, maneuvered by as many as 12 men, and close‐ups might well require all this to be pushed from extreme long shots to within a few inches of an actor’s face. Many found it difficult to overcome some understandable nervousness as this juggernaut ground closer and closer. Not Joan Crawford. The nearer the camera, the more tender and yielding she became—her eyes glistening, her lips avid in ecstatic acceptance. The camera saw, I suspect, a side of her that no flesh‐and‐blood lover ever saw.”
—From director George Cukor’s eulogy for Joan Crawford, 1977

 

‘Two Sisters’ (c.1615) by Cornelis de Vos, Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki

 

Photo by Albert Watson
Chloe, 1979

 

Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled (7-10), 1992 16” x 20” (40.6 cm x 50.8 cm). © Thomas Nozkowski Photography by Kerry Ryan McFate, courtesy of Pace Gallery.

 

Tea Urn
By Paul Revere Jr. (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1734–1818 Boston, Massachusetts)
Date: 1791
Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Silver, ivory
Dimensions: Overall: 22 1/4 x 10 5/8 x 10 3/8 in. (56.5 x 27 x 26.4 cm); 110 oz. 10 dwt. (3437.2 g)
Body: H. 17 15/16 in. (45.6 cm); 88 oz. 9 dwt. (2750.9 g)
Cover: 7 in. (17.8 cm); Diam. 6 in. (15.2 cm); 11 oz. 5 dwt. (350.7 g)
Insert: H. 9 13/16 in. (24.9 cm); 10 oz. 15 dwt. (335.6 g)

 

Horst P. Horst
Muriel Maxwell, American Vogue
1939
© Conde Nast / Horst Estate

 

Snapshot of Barbara Stanwyck taken by a fan, circa 1943

 

Rick McGinnis
Media Day, Canadian International Auto Show, Toronto, Feb. 2018

 

“I haven’t had an easy life, but it sure hasn’t been a dull one. And I’m pretty proud of the way this gal has held up.”
—Lana Turner, speaking in the 1970′s

 

‘Nocturne at the Royal Park, Brussels’ (1897) by William Degouve de Nuncques; Musée d’Orsay, Paris

 

Photo by Albert Watson
Fanny With Mirrors
New York City, 2010

 

Miniature broad collar
Early Ptolemaic Period
Date: 332–246 B.C.
From Egypt, Eastern Delta; Probably from Tukh el-Qaramus
Gold, carnelian, turquoise, lapis lazuli
Dimensions:H. 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); W. 10.3 cm (4 1/16 in.)

 

Cary Grant chats with a fan at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, 1941

 

Brice Marden
Study for the Muses (Hydra Version), 1991-97, Oil on linen, 83 x 135″

 

French poster for Vertigo, 1958

 

Isaiah bulla, a 2,700-year-old clay seal impression which may have belonged to the biblical prophet Isaiah. (Ouria Tadmor/© Eilat Mazar) Full story here.

 

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

 

Ed Ruscha, The End, 2003

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  1. I love the cameos by the stars – Until I started getting into classical movies, didn’t realize how beautiful Barbara Stanwick was.

    BTW Robert – the program TCM/Fathom events is screening vertigo next month. There has to be a theater near you showing that program. That is about the only thing that gets me to the theater these days, although someone had to explain the recently shown Philadelphia Story (shown last week) to me 😉

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