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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’ll always regret that I didn’t have a normal childhood. Was a picture career worth the sacrifice? Well, yes…you can’t have everything.”
— Linda Darnell

‘Portrait’ (c.1880) by Édouard Joseph Dantan (France, 1848-1897)

 

Danielle Darrieux in The Earrings of Madame de… 1953
Screenplay by Marcel Achard, Max Ophüls, Annette Wademant
Based on “Madame de…” by Louise de Vilmorin

 

Model Norma Jeane Baker taken by M.O.Schwartz on May, 18th, 1945, and her certification sheet.

 

Suzy Parker in Morocco, 1953, photo by Georges Dambier

 

Roger Pérot (1908-1976)
Delahaye
1932
Poster, lithograph
160 x 120 cm
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

 

“I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.”
—Marlene Dietrich
GRYA by Tobi Kahn 1984
acrylic on canvas
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.

 

Ralph Gibson Syntax, from the “Infanta” Series 1974

 

Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly, It’s Always Fair Weather, 1955
Written by Betty Comden, Adolph Green

 

Lauren Bacall (b.Betty Joan Perske) at home with her mother Natalie, 1944, New York.

 

Gene Tierney by Horst P. Horst for Vogue, 1940.

 

“I had the ability, but I didn’t have the name. They [MGM] could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don’t think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.”
—Angela Lansbury
Bocca Baciata (Lips That Have Been Kissed)
1859
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828–1882)
oil on panel
32.1 x 27.0 cm (12 5/8 x 10 5/8 in.)

 

Frank A. Rinehart
Hattie Tom
Mescalero Chiricahua Apache Nation, 1899

 

French poster for Chaplin’s The Kid, 1921

 

Moshe Zabari
Torah Crown (Keter)
Silver

 

Livia Yarden wishes all our friends and relatives a lovely and inspirational Shabbat.

 

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  1. You really post some beautiful pictures, Robert. I was particularly struck by “Portrait” which could have been done yesterday. Beautiful.

    And looking at Norma Jean there is a definite boundary between looks between the innocent Norma Jean and MM.

  2. Linda Darnell lived across the street from me and my friends on the Esplanade in Redondo Beach when she was married to her airline pilot husband. They had the last house on the beach side of the street to the east on the Palos Verdes side.

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