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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 was, I am afraid, wildly infatuated with love. At the age of sixteen – when I looked about twenty four – I was playing Robert Taylor’s wife. I’d finish a passionate love scene with him and then the tutor would drag me away to study mathematics. I mean it really kind of made your eyes go crossed.”
—Elizabeth Taylor

Johann Friedrich Overbeck (Germany, 1789–1869)
“Vittoria Caldoni”
1821
oil on canvas
Height: 89.5 cm (35.2 ″); Width: 65.8 cm (25.9 ″)

 

Irving Penn
Japanese Girl, 1980

 

The fine watch maker Hublot is celebrating the Jewish state’s 70th birthday with the beautiful “Pride of Israel” tribute watch in blue Titanium. Inquire here.

 

Photo by Kenneth Josephson

 

German poster for The Private Life of Henry VIII designed by Dorothea Fischer-Nosbisch and Fritz Fischer, 1933.

 

Myrna Loy and Clark Gable in a still from the film Manhattan Melodrama 1934.
‘Notorious criminal John Dillinger attended a showing of the film at Chicago’s Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934. After leaving the theater, he was shot to death by federal agents. Myrna Loy was among those who expressed distaste at the studio’s willingness to exploit this event for the financial benefit of the film.’ (Wikipedia)

 

“Henry Fonda’s son: That’s how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.”
—Peter Fonda RIP (1940 – 2019)

 

Albert Renger-Patzsch (German, 1897-1966)
Flat iron for shoe fabrication, 1926
Gelatin silver print

 

An Art Deco masterpiece, The U-Drop Inn, a roadside gas station and diner on U.S. Highway 66 in Shamrock, Texas (1936)

 

Photo by Vivian Maier

 

Rick McGinnis
Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo NY, Oct. 2018

 

“I’m not really Henry Fonda. Nobody could have that much integrity.”
—Henry Fonda

 

“A Lady Writing at a Desk” by Master Of The Female Half Lengths (с.1500) oil on panel; Height: 15.1 ″ Width: 9.8 ″

 

Paris, 1959, photo by Pierre Boulat

 

Tobi Kahn
DARIAH, 1993
Acrylic on canvas over wood, 50 x 40 x 2 inches

 

“I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.”
Jan Sterling to Kirk Douglas.
“Ace in the Hole” 1952
Screenplay by Walter Newman, Lesser Samuels, Billy Wilder; Story by Victor Desny

 

Pinchas, Ariel, and Mr. Met wish all our friends and relatives a lovely and inspirational Shabbat.

 

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  2. One of the satisfactions of old age, for me at least, is finding more joy in little things. The grand lusts are banked, replaced by introspection and a surprising, growing appetite for the beauty and texture in the world..

    Hence my delight when scrolling through my bookmarks and realizing I have two Friday Photos to catch up with! As always leading an hour or three exploring an artist, photographer, watchmaker, exotic automobile (usually) or film figure. I especially enjoy the juxtaposition of mood in 500 year old art with photography that makes me better appreciate both.

    Thank you Robert for the weekly respite from the constant assault of ugliness on so much of the internet.

  4. It occurred to me that Bonnie and Clyde were killed just a few months earlier from Dillinger – in May 1934. Have you seen the Highwaymen from Netflix? Thought it was an excellent movie.

    On the service station yes, an art deco masterpiece.

    These days with generic convenience stores, what has been lost was the unique architecture of each oil company’s stations. My late father could tell you what was a Chevron, Texaco, Shell, Union even years after they became…..something else.

  5. The Paris photo got me thinking… there is a Le Metro cafe at 60 Saint Germain Blvd in Paris. It is about a block away from Notre Dame. I wonder if it is the same establishment.

    Map

  6. I loved the Paris photo too. I think Europe in the 1950s must have been wonderful. And I see so much in that photo.

    Have you ever seen a picture of Elizabeth Taylor that wasn’t beautiful?

    I am with Myrna Loy.

    Perhaps I am in the minority but I think even a gangster’s death deserves some dignity.

  8. You think Myrna Loy was upset? Imagine how John Dillinger felt!

    The watch, and its charitable support, is wonderful.

    Elizabeth Taylor has an interesting point (and yes, she had a mature body for a teenager).

    I LOVE the U-Drop Inn building. I’m not the least bit surprised that it’s on Route 66.

    I really like the Paris photo. Simple, yet elegant… and she has lovely legs.

    You grand kids are adorable… but someone needs to fix Mr.Met’s belt.

    Have a wonderful weekend.

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