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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 never really a femme fatale. I’ve known a couple but I really can’t be bothered.”
—Jane Russell

Evelyn Brent in The Mad Parade, 1931

 

Elgin Trench Watch, World War I

 

Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity, 1944
Screenplay by Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler
Based on Double Indemnity by James M. Cain

 

Lavinia Fontana (b. 1552, Bologna, d. 1614, Rome)
Self-Portrait at the Spinet 1577
Oil on canvas, 27 x 24 cm

 

“All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.”
—Gloria Swanson

 

Rick McGinnis
On Georgian Bay, 2019
Check out a recent podcast where Rick discusses his work.

 

Ho Fan
Sun Rays, 1959

 

This rare 1935 poster was auctioned off for $334,600 in 2007.

 

Candid snapshot of director Frank Capra, Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable during production on It Happened One Night, 1934.

 

1935 Lincoln K Convertible Roadster

 

“Always one must be so damn beautiful! It is work to be beautiful.”
—Marlene Dietrich

 

Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920)
Encased Cakes, 2010–11.
oil on canvas
72 by 48 in.

 

Arthur Leipzig
Chalk Games, Prospect Place, Brooklyn, 1950

 

Brass floor lamp designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1902

 

FBI Agent Del Bryce by Gjon Mili, 1945

 

Eight piece Shabbat Kiddush set by Yair Emanuel
Anodized Aluminum
Reasonably priced.

 

Édouard Boubat
Pont des Arts, Paris 1956

 

Ariel Chaim wishes all our friends and relatives a splendid Shabbat.

 

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  1. A lot of beautiful pictures and thought-provoking quotes!

    Growing up all I remember of Barbara Stanwyck is the older matron of the Big Valley – but in her younger days…she was a babe.

    It happened one night is one of those timeless movies. But also a window into life in the early 30s. Remember that Gyrocopter?

  2. Another Swanson picture – thank you, Robert! I don’t know so much about the hairstyle, though. To me, a cut like that suits very few women; Louise Brooks and Colleen Moore are about it.

    May you and your family have a lovely Thanksgiving.

  3. Jayne played kind of s=dumb babes but she was a very smart woman who made a fortune in real estate. She supported her whole family, her mother and brothers.

  4. Well done, Robert.

    Jane Russell always looks intense to me… beautiful, but intense.

    I love the trench watch, but I wish we could see Gable’s watch better.

    Have a wonderful Thanksgiving…

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