Seraphic Secret

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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“Most of the good things in pictures happen by accident.”
—John Ford
Photo by Richard Avedon, Bel Air, California, 1972

Japanese poster for Hud, 1963

 

Carmen Dell’Orefice models a gown by Jacques Griffe in a photo by Gleb Derujinsky, Paris, 1957

 

Rick McGinnis
Motorama 2019, Toronto

 

Norma Shearer
Photo by George Hurrell 1934

 

The Jaeger LeCoultre “Reverso Classique” was invented in 1931 for British officers playing polo in India…

 

The watch face slides and then pivots on extremely smooth and durable hinges…

 

Then locks down in a closed position protecting the crystal and the movement. The Art Deco design is timeless and is worn by both men and women. More here.

 

“It’s amazing how pictures change. I’ve seen movies I adored ten years ago and now find lousy, and others I hated ten years ago I now think are masterpieces. Actually, what changes is you.”
—Peter Bogdanovich

 

Natrufied Architecture, Dragspel House, 2004, Smolmark, Sweden. Photo by Christian Richters. Courtesy of Phaidon.

 

James Stewart and director Alfred Hitchcock converse on the set of The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956

 

Art Deco masterpiece
1938 Voisin C28 Saliot Cabriolet

 

Bob Willoughby, Audrey Hepburn, 1958

 

Books on my night table

 

“You can’t fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.”
—Howard Hawks

 

Portrait of a Woman with a Book of Music (1540-1545)
by Antonio D’ubertino Verdi (called Bachiacca)

 

Natalie Wood, 1964, photo by Bert Stern

 

Robert J. Avrech
Blue, Blue, Blue
acrylic on canvas
12″ X 12″
2019

 

Photo by Micha Bar-Am, 1981

 

Pinchas Tzvi wishes all our friends and relatives a lovely and inspirational Shabbat.

 

 

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  1. “Most of the good things in pictures happen by accident.”
    —John Ford

    I was just saying to someone the other day that my most memorable photographs – a few were competently accidental.

    I wonder if that is just me.

    A couple of them are here.

    (If you don’t want to scroll though the whole thing it is the Monk in the Greek monastery and the construction site in Trier)

    https://thelexicans.wordpress.com/2017/12/25/europe-in-b-w-1973-1974/

  2. As usual, great collection. However, my reaction to Blue, Blue, Blue is Blah, Blah, Blah. My reaction to your grandson Pinchas Tzvi, my grand nephew, is heartwarming, especially as this week’s Torah reading across the world was Pinchas. I wish your grandchildren and mine, second cousins, could get acquainted, but they live far apart.

  3. I thought Howards Hawks wrote his scripts as they went along shooting.

    “The Big Sleep” never made any sense after they took the pornography out.

    “To Have and Have Not” was not much better on story. I think Bogart beat him out for Betty Bacall.

    I love both of them.

  4. The car,
    The watch.
    Audrey (and her deer, Pippin)
    The photo of Paris shows the beauty of Notre Dame — which is sad given recent events.

  5. Fabulous, Robert. Just fabulous.

    The car,
    The watch.
    Audrey (and her deer, Pippin)
    The photo of Paris shows the beauty of Notre Dame — which is sad given recent events.

    Have a wonderful weekend.

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