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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 even got my three wishes granted. To be in pictures, to give Mother a mink coat and buy the folks a house.”
—Eleanor Parker

Berthe Morisot, The Cheval-Glass, 1877-79
Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

 

Photo by Vivian Maier

 

Future Systems Malator House, 1994 St.-Brides Bay, Wales, UK.

 

 

 

Richard Avedon
Suzy Parker at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, 1951

 

Audrey Hepburn photographed by Howell Conant at a farm near her house in the Swiss Alps, 1962.

 

Fred Stein
Chez Paris, 1934

 

“I didn’t show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.”
—John Ford

 

Louis Stettner
Notorious, New York City c.1946

 

1961 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Zagato

 

John Dudley Johnston, Liverpool, 1906

 

Edward Hopper
Seven A.M., 1948
oil on canvas
101.6 x 76.2 cm
Private Collection

 

Uncredited Photographer, Sign Forbidding Jews From Entering a Café
Paris, 1940

 

Coming up for auction in July, this hand made George Daniels unique, yellow gold pocket watch with Daniels Double-Wheel Escapement, Mean-Solar and Sidereal Time, Age and Phase of Moon and Equation of Time Indications, 1982, Space Traveler I. ESTIMATE: £700,000–1,000,000

 

“[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer] put me right to work in Manhattan Melodrama, which precipitated the demise of John Dillinger, Public Enemy No. 1. FBI agents shot him down outside the Biograph Theatre, in Chicago, after he’d seen the film. Supposedly a Myrna Loy fan, he broke cover to see me. Personally, I suspect the theme of the picture rather than my fatal charms attracted him, but I’ve always felt a little guilty about it, anyway. They filled him full of holes, poor soul.”
—Myrna Loy, in her autobiography “Being and Becoming”

 

 

Painting by Tobi Kahn

 

Walter Rosenblum
Girl on Swing, Pitt Street, Lower East Side, New York City, 1938

 

Japanese poster for Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid, 1921

 

Edouard Boubat
Ile de France, 1978

 

Maayan Ariel wishes all our friends and relatives a lovely and inspirational Shabbat.

 

 

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  1. I love waking up on Friday morning to read Friday Photos.

    My favorite was the Suzy Parker photo at Notre Dame… until I scrolled down to see Audrey Hepburn! What an awesome photo…

    The Alfa Romeo is cool. I was born the same year… and it’s held up better than I.

    The watch is a work of art… a very expensive work of art.

    And, of course, there is Myrna. I suspect Robert has been adding her for my benefit, and I appreciate it, but I feel like you’ve been neglecting Bardot!

    Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

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