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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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“When I die, my epitaph should be: I died a thousand deaths. That was the story of my film career. Most of the time I played in mystery and intrigue stories. They didn’t know what to do with me at the end, so they killed me off.” — Anna May Wong

John Singleton Copley
A Boy with a Flying Squirrel (Henry Pelham), 1765
Oil on canvas
30 3/8 x 25 1/8 in.
Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

 

January 1941. “Sarasota, Florida, trailer park. Students coming from school in the afternoon.” Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration.

 

Rick McGinnis
Scarborough Bridge
Toronto, 2015

 

Brigitte Bardot, 1961
Photo by Bert Stern

 

“I’m getting tired of coming back. I really am. I can’t even go to… the powder room without making a comeback.”
—Judy Garland

 

Katharine Hepburn in Mary of Scotland, 1936

 

Portrait of a Lady and her Daughter
Artist: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Pieve di Cadore ca. 1485/90?–1576 Venice)
Date: ca. 1550
Oil on canvas: 34 3/4 × 31 3/4 in. (88.3 × 80.6 cm)

 

Myrna Loy signing autographs for fans in San Diego on the set of the woefully underrated Test Pilot, 1938

 

Morgan 4-4-80th Anniversary Edition

 

A Yemenite Jew named Yehia holding a lulav and etrog—the four species—in a Sukkah, Jerusalem, 1939.

 

A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier
Artist: Gerard ter Borch the Younger (Dutch, Zwolle 1617–1681 Deventer)
ca. 1658
Oil on wood
Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (36.8 x 32.4 cm)

 

“They say there’s a thin man trying to get out of every fat man. Well, with me it’s always been the actress trying to get out of being a star.”
—Jane Russell

 

The Panerai Radiomir 1940 Art Deco Dial PAM790 and PAM791 watches are priced at $9,200 and are limited to 500 pieces each.

 

Ervin Marton
Teenagers at a Cinema, Paris, 1956

 

Portrait of Adele Bauer Bloch, 1907. The 55 inch x 55 inch shimmering gold and oil on canvas was one of six Klimt paintings stolen by the Nazis from the Jewish Bloch-Bauer family home.

 

The undersea ‘Realm of Glass’ set from The Thief of Bagdad, 1924.
Art direction by William Cameron Menzies.
To prepare the set for the underwater world, a family of artisans spent three months hand-blowing the required glass pieces.

 

My Lulav and Etrog in the Casa Avrech Succah.

 

Livia wishes all our friends and relatives a lovely and inspirational Shabbat.

 

 

 

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  2. Yes, I look forward to each Friday. The photo of Jane Russell must have been back before she began wearing wigs every day. Her hair looks natural.
    Isn’t that the paining in the movie “Woman in Gold?” A friend of mine is related to the young lawyer who took that case and won it.

  4. I would echo jimmo’s comments. I look forward to Friday Photos each week and was a little alarmed when I did not see it this morning.

    Have a wonderful Sabbath…

  5. Thank you so very much for doing this each Friday, Robert. I always look forward to what you have assembled. From a Christian: May God bless you; have a wonderful sabbath.

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