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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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“Being an actress is like living in a show window. It’s the price you pay.”
—Madeleine Carroll

John White Alexander (American, 1856–1915)
“Woman with a Tea Cup” 1884
Oil on Canvas
27 x 22 in.

 

Alfred Eisenstaedt
Couple in Penn Station sharing farewell embrace before he ships off to war during WWII, 1943

 

Kim Novak in Vertigo, 1958
Screenplay by Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor
Based on D’entre les morts by Pierre Boileau & Thomas Narcejac

 

Errol Flynn and Brigitte Bardot on the beach at Cannes, 1956

 

Japanese poster for Vertigo, 1958

 

“I think we’re all a bit crazy. Picture people, I mean. Too much of a strain on the nervous system, too much parading of emotions. It’s bad. We get so that everything that happens to us away from the studio is dramatized — we exaggerate our personal emotions.”
—Thelma Todd

 

This Omega watch was given to Elvis Presley in February 1961 by RCA to celebrate 75 million records sold worldwide.

 

Bert Hardy
Millions Like Her, Birmingham, UK, 1951

 

Erwin Blumenfeld
Elizabeth Arden Powder Compact, 1955

 

Bert Hardy
A young woman talks to a boyfriend after her evening’s work as a cinema usherette, circa 1954

 

“New York Movie” by Edward Hopper, painted in 1939. Hopper (1882–1967) does a split screen here. The left frame shows us a movie theater, and a tiny sliver of light on the screen. On the right, an usherette who has seen the movie who knows how many times, leans against the wall, flashlight in hand, and dreams of being somewhere else. Notice how Hopper leads our eye from foreground to background by the receding ceiling lights. and the five steps framed by the red velvet curtains. Hopper understood that going to the movies is a communal experience, but as always with Hopper, a sense of  isolation pervades his distinctly spare, introspective compositions.

 

Rodney Smith
Two Women in Black, 1992

 

Elizabeth Taylor takes a break during the filming of Suddenly, Last Summer in Spain, 1959

 

“I don’t think I’ve ever done a great job and there are no parts I’ve played that I can point to as great. I’m not a fan of myself.”
—Sylvia Sidney

 


Mark Rothko
“Entrance to Subway”
1938
oil on canvas

 

Writer Charles Brackett, star Gloria Swanson and director Billy Wilder photographed in Wilder’s office during the filming of Sunset Boulevard, 1950

 

Art Deco masterpiece, the 1938 Delahaye 135 MS Torpedo Roadster

 

Vivian Maier
Chicago, IL. 1950s

 

Tobi Kahn
UKALH, 2018
Acrylic on wood
36 x 18 x 2 inches

 

Child Survivors of Buchenwald form a Magen David, 1946

 

Livia, Lielle, and Maayan wish all our friends and relatives a lovely and inspirational Shabbat.

 

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  1. Looking at that picture of Elizabeth Taylor wouldn’t the director be a bit upset if she got sunburned? Or did one not say no to Liz?

    Like the usherette (Bret Hardy), don’t get the “millions like her” picture… Millions of women arranging flowers?

    Eisenstadt made a lot of famous WW2 pictures; for Life Magazine I suspect. That one sure captures the emotion.

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