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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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“Nobody’s going to tell me how to live. I go by the rules of decent behavior. The most important rule to live by is the Golden Rule. I don’t do anything to anybody I wouldn’t want done to me. I drink, but I’m not tough and rough. I don’t brawl outside of movies. I act tough in movies but that’s what I get paid to do. Despite what they say, I don’t go around in restaurants waving guns and picking fights. I live my own life and I do what I want. That’s Bogart.”
—Humphrey Bogart (b. Humphrey DeForest Bogart, New York City, 1899 – 1957)

A fashion photo by Constantine Joffe for Vogue, New York, 1945

 

Portrait of Celeste Holm by Constantin Joffe, 1945

 

Painting by Tobi Kahn

 

Actress Peggy Dow, (b. Peggy Josephine Varnadow, Mississippi, 1928) under contract to Universal Pictures, made only nine films – most notable as Nurse Kelly in Harvey (’50) opposite James Stewart – before retiring to marry Walter Helmerich III, an oil driller from Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1951. They were married for 60 years until his death in 2012. The couple had five sons. She became an active supporter of libraries and other charitable activities. This 1950 photo is by Allan Grant.

 

The Modern Diner in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (1940) is modeled after streamlined railroad car.

 

“I’m not the Red Riding Hood type. I don’t think any girl is so dumb that she can’t tell a wolf from her grandma.”
—Yvonne De Carlo (born Margaret Yvonne Middleton, Canadian-American, 1922 – 2007)

 

Dirck Jacobsz.  (circa 1497 –1567)  
Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen Painting a Portrait of His Wife (Jacobsz’s parents)
1550
oil on panel
Height: 24.4 ″; Width: 19.4 ″
Toledo Museum of Art

 

Rick McGinnis
Elora Mill Inn, Grand River and the “Tooth of Time”
2019

 

Finnish poster for Seven Samurai designed by Raimo Raimela,

 

American film actor Jack Nicholson smokes and listens to music on a pair of headphones in his home, Los Angeles, California, 1969. Photo by Arthur Schatz/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images.

 

The Perpetual SC-03 mechanical watch has a distinct Art Deco vibe, and is surprisingly affordable at—wait for it—$180.00. Read about this great value here.

 

“The best directors for actors are the ones who cast wisely and then trust that the actor knows what he’s doing. They’re not afraid to accept something they hadn’t thought of.”
—Piper Laurie (b. Rosetta Jacobs, Detroit, 1932)

 

The Marquis de Lafayette
by Rembrandt Peale (American, Bucks County, Pennsylvania 1778–1860)
1825
Oil on canvas: 34 1/2 x 27 3/8 in.

 

Vivian Maier
The Balaban & Katz United Artists Theatre, 1961. Chicago, IL

 

Moshe Zabari
Havdalah Set, 1968
North Carolina Museum of Art
Silver: hollow-formed, turned, pierced; walnut
Dimensions: 5 x 13 x 3 5/8 in. (12.7 x 33 x 9.2 cm)

 

“Unknown Woman Eating Cotton Candy” by Nina Leen, 1940s

 

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

 

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  2. Nice quote by Bogie! I’d like to walk into Romanoff’s, sit down with him and talk.

    Rick, the Elora Mill Inn doesn’t look long for this world. Mother nature is patient!

    Jack Nicholson looks like a regular guy there.

    Nice pictures!

    • The mill’s been there for almost 200 years, Bill – still solid as a rock. Even the flowerpot island – the “Tooth of Time” – is holding on, still looking like it did 100 years ago. (Though it was reinforced with concrete at one point.) If you’re ever in that part of the world it’s worth staying at the Inn – recently renovated at a cost of many millions, and very nice. The town is lovely as well.

  3. I used to listen to music with ear phones. I started in basic training and my wife used to watch TV ands I would listen to classical music with ear phones. It probably caused my hearing loss. Fortunately only moderate. My wife’s is worse.

  5. Nicely done, Robert. I wasn’t familiar with Peggy Dow. Her photo is interesting. She is obviously attractive and her reading a book makes her look… approachable. She looks like the typical 1950’s TV mother –sexy, yet not in a sophisticated or slutty way. Her 9 movies were made between 1949-’51. I love the diner and the watch.

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