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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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“You cannot play naive if you’re not. I never had any childhood.”
— Ida Lupino

1930 Cord L-29 Cabriolet

 

Yemenite Passover Seder in Jerusalem, 1939. They are eating the bitter herbs.

 

Dura Europos fresco: Moses from river, from c. 244-255 CE.

 

Jewish community in Manila conducting a Passover Seder, 1925

 

Ethiopian Jews celebrate their first Passover in Israel

 

“I love a flashy, sexy role—when it’s in character. But to be built up purely as a sex queen—no thanks.”
—Jean Peters

 

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, German, 1800-1882
Seder (The Passover Meal) (Der Oster-Abend), c. 1867
Oil on paper on canvas
24 1/2 × 18 in. (62.2 × 45.7 cm)

 

American Jewish soldiers celebrating Passover in Seoul, Korea, 1952.

 

Paul Sérusier (1864–1927)
Les Laveuses à la Laïta (Laundresses at the Laïta River), 1892, oil on canvas, 73 × 92 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris

 

Best friends, a photo by Vivian Maier, New York, 1954

 

Marc Chagall, ( 24 June 1887 – 28 March 1985)
Abraham and three Angels, c. 1966
oil on canvas
190 x 292 cm
Musée national Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice, France

 

“It was the first time I played Jane Russell.”
—Jane Russell on why her role as Dorothy Shaw in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (’53) was the pinnacle of her career.

 

The Infinity Wristwatch is manufactured in Los Angeles by J.N. Shapiro, a high school principal who, in his spare time, produces some of the most beautiful wrist watches I have ever seen.

 

In 1992 the Los Angeles Times did a story about Jewish children baking their own matzoh for Passover. The photo featured Offspring #2 preparing the dough for her matzo. Offspring #2 is now the mother of:

 

… Maayan, Livia and Lielle who wish all our friends and relatives a peaceful Shabbat and a happy and kosher Passover.

 

Francesca Woodman, Hands, New York, 1979

 

Arthur Szyk
The Four Sons,’ 1934, from The Passover Haggadah.
Robbins Family Collection, Palo Alto, California

 

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  1. I love Best Friends. Captures childhood friendship perfectly. And shot at the right time; not posed.

    How does a HS Principal do the machine work for those watches? Is the movement his too?

    I have queued up on Amazon a program (from PBS) on Jews in WW2.

    I know Henry Kissinger was a Staff Sgt in the Army.

  2. My dental hygienist for years has been an Ethiopian Jew who was rescued by Israelis and grew up in Israel. Much of her family, including her father, lives in Israel and she visits every year with her white Jewish husband. We have talked about the racial problem in this country where she has experienced “hate stares” from black females when she is out with her husband. They live in largely white Irvine in Orange County but she still sees the black racism.

  3. I always look forward to Friday Photos, Robert. So many beautiful pictures.

    I wouldn’t mind taking Jane Russell for a picnic behind the wheel of that 1930 Cord!

    A happy and kosher Passover to you and yours.

  4. I love the Shapiro watch.

    I feel like Howard Hughes had a definite “type”… and I’ll bet his limo had Dagmar bumpers too!

    The Army Passover photo caught my eye. My dad was in the Army at the time, although he was stationed at Fort Lee.

    Oh my! Offspring #2 looks SO serious in that photo. Her offspring look less serious in your photos.

    Have a wonderful Sabbath!

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