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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 like courage. I hope I have it. I want and I try to be honest. Perhaps I don’t always succeed. But I try… I am like that.”
—Jean Harlow

Portrait of a woman dressed in green (1530)
by Bartolomeo Veneto (1502 – 1555)
oil on panel
Height: 33.3 ″ (84.7 cm); Width: 26.6 ″ (67.6 cm)

 

The Rolex GMT- Master worn by Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now is up for auction. Story here.

 

This impeccably restored 1951 Chevrolet woodie belongs to Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter.

 

Rick McGinnis
University Avenue, Toronto, 2016

 

Painting by Tobi Kahn

 

“I love the camera and it loves me. Well, not very much sometimes. But we’re good friends.”
—Dirk Bogarde

 

German poster for The Seven Year Itch (1955) designed by Dorothea Fischer-Nosbisch and Fritz Fischer.

 

Marilyn Monroe in The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, 1950)
Screenplay by Ben Maddow, John Huston
Based on The Asphalt Jungle, 1949 novel by W. R. Burnett.

 

Lobby card for The Asphalt Jungle.

 

Michael Kenna
Takaishima, Biwa Lake, Shiga Prefecture, Honshu, Japan, 2007

 

Lotte Laserstein
Tennis Player, 1929
110 × 95,5 cm

 

Eugen Wiskovsky, Collars, Prague, 1929

 

Edward Hopper (American, 1882 – 1967)
Hill and Houses, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, 1927
Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper
Sheet: 34.4 x 49.5 cm (13 9/16 x 19 1/2 in.)

 

Kim Novak, 1956, photo by David Seymour

 

“I used to stand for hours listening to the minister talking from a box. I noticed it was never really a soap box but usually an empty soft drink crate on which he stood. The talk would be about God and the minister would call on his listeners to give Him their souls and their love. I watched the faces of the listeners when the minister would cry out how much God loved them and how much they needed to set themselves right with God. They were faces without any argument in them, just tired faces that were glad to hear Somebody loved them.”
—Marilyn Monroe, My Story
Photo by Andre de Dienes, 1949

 

Michael Kenna, Skyline, Panama, 2009

 

Lotte Laserstein (German-Swedish, 1898 – 1993)
Russian Girl with Compact, 1928. Oil on panel, 31.7 x 40 cm. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Photo: Städel Museum – Artothek. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018.

 

Jean Besancenot, Jewish Girl with Harqus (Plant Ink) Facial Decorations, Agdz, Draa’ Valley, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco c.1930

 

Pinchas Tzvi and Ariel Chaim wish all our friends and relatives a lovely and inspirational Shabbat.

 

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  1. Nice pictures! That ’51 Chevy looks stylish today. I’ll bet you’d notice the difference in driving qualities.

    When I think of Kim Novak I think of her fire at her home in Oregon and losing all of that movie memorabilia.

    BTW a sign you are getting older:

    Me, last summer at a rustic restaurant at Big Sur speaking to my server:

    “You know, Kim Novak used to live here”

    “Kim who?”

  2. Another nice edition,Robert.

    I am interested in Jean Harlow. Only 26 when she died, but she had been married 3 times and was in a relationship with William Powell when she died. I wonder what would have happened had she lived. I also wonder about the supposed suicide of her second husband…

    I marvel at the Veneto painting. While I am not overly taken by the subject of the painting, I am amazed by the detail of his brushwork. Laserstein was also quite talented and you know my fondness for Hopper’s artwork.

    I’m wondering if anyone knows about the facial painting… what is the significance?

    Marilyn is attractive, but Novak still does it for me.

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