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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 liked the strong characters. I don’t mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.”
—Ida Lupino

Andrew Wyeth
Two if by Sea, 1995

 

Aldous Huxley
Photo by Cecil Beaton, 1936

 

Swedish poster for Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, 1935

 

Irene Dunne in Love Affair, 1939, wearing a fur coat and black evening dress by Edward Stevenson, head designer for RKO Pictures

 

1928 Hispano-Suiza H6C

 

“If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can’t, I’ll stick to animals.”
—Brigitte Bardot

 

Pablo Picasso
Self-portrait
1896
Oil on canvas
32 x 23.5 cm. Barcelona, Musée Picasso ©

 

Dovima models a Balenciaga coat on the Eiffel Tower, photo by Richard Avedon, 1950

 

Irving Penn
Mascara Wars, New York City, 2001

 

Candid snapshot of Gloria Grahame, 1954

 

Italian poster for The Big Heat, 1953

 

“I am a woman with a heart of a man.”
—María Félix, the greatest star of Mexican cinema

 

Gerald Murphy
Watch, 1925
Oil on canvas
78 1/2 × 78 7/8 in; 199.4 × 200.3 cm

 

William Gedney
Three Girls
Kentucky, 1964

 

Wilhelm Wagenfeld
Table Lamp
1924

 

Eva Marie Saint and Cary Grant, North by Northwest, 1959
Screenplay by Ernest Lehman

 

David Bailly (Dutch, 1584 – 1657)
Portrait of a Woman, 1629
Pen and light and dark brown ink; framing line in dark brown ink; pupils
incised by the artist
Dimensions:
Diam.: 12.9 cm (Diam.: 5 1/16 in.)
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Photo by Nikolai Muth

 

Jewish revolt against Rome, 66 – 70 AD. Masada-period. Minted and circulated during the time of Josephus and the siege at Masada. Judaea, First Revolt, Bronze Prutah. Year 2 = 67-68 AD. Two handled amphora, ancient Hebrew inscription “Year Two” / Vine leaf on small branch, “The Freedom of Zion” in Hebrew.

 

Pinchas Tzvi and Ariel Chaim wish 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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  2. The 1940s was the era of great women’s roles and great actresses. I have read a half dozen books about Gerald and Sara Murphy. His “Boat Deck” was lost. Picasso tried to seduce Sara and, when she rejected his advances, he painted out his figure in a painting of her.

  3. Admired how the photographer symmetrically captured Ida Lupino’s reflection in the mirror. Viewing a photo like today’s closing frame of Pinchas and Ariel’s smiles is the way everyone should start their day.

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