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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 know very little about the simple life. I’m a product of crowded places and jammed-up emotions, where right and wrong weren’t always clearly defined and life wasn’t always sweet, but it was life.”
—Barbara Stanwyck

Gene Tierney With Portrait Masks by Horst P. Horst, 1940

 

Alfred Hitchcock and Ingrid Bergman outside Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, UK, 1944, where Hitchcock was filming propaganda films for the British Ministry of Information during World War II.

 

The DeBethune Kind of Gold is among the most sought after wrist watches made by the independent brand. Robert Downey Jr. was recently sighted wearing a DeBethune. This model is limited to 10 pieces and is priced at $125,000.

 

Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor sign autographs for fans while changing planes at the Minneapolis airport May 18, 1941.

 

Hilma af Klint (Swedish, 1862-1944)
Group X, No. 1, Altarpiece
1915
From Altarpieces
Oil and metal leaf on canvas
237.5 x 179.5 cm
© The Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm
Photo: Albin Dahlström, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm

 

“Fame is like caviar, you know — it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.”
—Marilyn Monroe

 

Valentin de Boulogne, David with the Head of Goliath and Two Soldiers, 1620/22, © Museo Nacionial Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

 

Rick McGinnis
Manhattan Bridge
NYC, 2018

 

1938 Alfa Romeo 6C Mille Miglia Spyder

 

Shirley Temple, aged 21, at the hearing for her divorce from actor John Agar, 1949.

 

Hilma af Klint (Swedish, 1862-1944)
Tree of Knowledge, No. 5
1915
From The W Series
Watercolor, gouache, graphite and metallic paint on paper
18 1/16 x 11 5/8 inches (45.8 x 29.5 cm)
© The Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm
Photo: Albin Dahlström, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm

 

“The girl next door wasn’t really the girl next door. She was the girl next door to the movie star next door. There’s something in all my early performances…I don’t know how to describe it except to say that it’s so 1940s…It’s not that I wasn’t thinking the right thing. I was, but the thought is dressed in something prettier. We were all used to that technique. You were doing the real thing as that girl would do it if she were perfect.”
— Teresa Wright

 

Valentin de Boulogne, Judith with the Head of Holofernes, c. 1625/28, © Musée des Augustins, Toulouse

 

Édouard Boubat
Women with Flowers, Mexico, 1956

 

Polish poster for the Japanese movie, Harakiri
by the great Polish graphic designer Swierzy Waldemar, 1987.

 

Paper Cut Omer Calendar for Hevrah Mishnayyot, created by Baruch Zvi Ring in 1904 for his synagogue in Rochester, New York

 

Wooden synagogue of Talne, Cherkassy Region, Ukraine, taken pre-1914 by Ukrainian art researcher Danila Scherbakivsky

 

Maayan Ariel wishes all our friends and relatives a lovely and peaceful Shabbat

 

 

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  2. Rick – I like your B & W picture – like all good B & W it could have been photographed from the 1920s – to…today.

    Alfa – beautiful car.

    Looking at that watch – of thje band or pin broke it would be a catastrophe

    Maayan is growing up! We have watched her grow in Friday Photos

  4. The DeBethune watch, the Alfa Romeo Spyder, and Gene Tierney. Shirley Temple… divorced at 21? Hilma af Klint… I’m going to have to research that name. Very modern designs.

    Have a good weekend. How is your recovery coming along?

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