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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 was not a born actress. No one knows it better than I. If I had any latent talent, I have had to work hard, listen carefully, do things over and over and then over again in order to bring it out.”
—Jean Harlow

“A Woman and a Girl Driving,” by Mary Cassatt, 1881 Oil on canvas, 35 5/16 × 51 3/8 inches.

 

Brassaï
Hairdressers’ event, Paris, 1930
Farer is a micro brand out of England. They produce elegant yet tough mechanical wrist watches. This is the Helos. More information at their highly informative website.

 

Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1965

 

North By Northwest, 1959
Screenplay by Ernest Lehman

 

“I looked at it this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don’t mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of an alright guy.”
—Gary Cooper

 

Red Grooms
Slab City Rendezvous, 1964, Oil on canvas with wood and cardboard, 56 1/2 x 60 in.

 

René Groebli, London, 1949

 

The 1954 Buick Wildcat displays the flowing lines that are the hallmarks of the Art Deco movement.

 

Mexican-born actress Dolores del Rio was a Hollywood star for fifteen years, but dissatisfied with the roles she was offered she returned to Mexico in the early 40s. Along with Maria Félix she reigned over the golden age of Mexican cinema. Her best American films are: What Price Glory, ’26,  The Trail of ’98, 28, Bird of Paradise, ’32, Madame Du Barry, ’34 and Journey Into Fear, ’43.

 

James Nares, Last Kind Word, 2016, oil on linen, 78 x 60 inches, 198.1 x 152.4 cm

 

“You knew when I came on the screen that my kind couldn’t live. I was burned to death, shot and stoned. I was the kind of girl you wouldn’t want to come home to unless you wanted to end up in the morgue.”
—Linda Darnell

 

“Mary and Margaret Gainsborough, the Artist’s Daughters, at their Drawing,” ca. 1763–64,
by Thomas Gainsborough, English, 1727–1788,
Oil on canvas

 

Suzy Parker in a fashion photo by Georges Dambier, Morocco, 1953

 

Anthuenis Claeissens (1536-1613)
Esther before King Ahasuerus with Haman being sent to the Gallows beyond, c. 1577
oil on panel

 

Rick McGinnis
Brooklyn Bridge, NYC, 2018

 

Lielle Meital wishes all our friends and relatives a peaceful and inspirational Shabbat.

 

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  1. Love that ironic Cartier-Bresson photo of the two people before the “Love is a Many-Splendored Thing” poster. Awesome subject reference given the film takes place in Hong Kong.

  2. I had a 1953 Skylark that I loved but I was in college and could not afford to keep it up. I never saw a Wildcat before.

    Linda Darnell’s house was across the street from my apartment in Redondo Beach when I was in college. I think her husband was an airline captain.

    I was a medical student at Mass General a year or so after Gary Cooper had his prostate surgery there. Working him up, they discovered blood in his stool; and wanted to get a Barium enema, the state of the art then. He declined and said he would get it worked up in California. He never did and died of colon cancer.

  3. That girl in the carriage doesn’t look too happy!

    I notice so many of your cars are featured at Pebble Beach.

    Know the history of the Concours? At least as we know it?

    Phil Hill changed the whole perspective – from profiling the new cars to classic old cars. He was very proud of his family’s Pierce Arrow that he maintained for years that he brought it to Pebble Beach. Don’t know the year of this, though.

    Lielle looks very stylish – in a child-like way – with those Ray Bans and a missing tooth 😉

    North by Northwest – one of my favorite pictures. Was able to see it on the big screen a couple of years ago – it does that cornfield scene justice.

    1949 London – I am trying to imagine how dismal that London looked – I’d imagine a lot of the bomb damage hadn’t been cleared – but children will still play. That picture conveyed it for me.

    Like Ricks B & W too.

    I have made a minor photography decision. No the Nikon F3 is still hanging on my closet door – I think film is gone for good. But I am going to dust off my little Canon G7 and use the iPhone less. Both have their uses but getting the photos transferred from the iPhone to the PC is a major headache it seems. Plus the old Canon, even if not quite the resolution in megapixels (10 vs 12) , has a better lens I believe.

    Dolores del Rio – I see her in a lot of parties Wm Hearst had –

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