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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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“Glamour is just sex that got civilized.”
—Dorothy Lamour (b.Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton, 1914 – 1996)

The Seals Model C Field Explorer is an Art Deco inspired wrist watch. It has a dependable and sturdy mechanical movement that stores 44 hours of power reserve. Details here.

 

Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore on the set of The Dick Van Dyke Show, 1963.

 

Heart shaped medieval Book of Hours, 15th century.

 

“I’m Chinese by race and I love Chinese people and things. I love our traditions and even our ancient religions. I think there is poetry in our plural gods of the North Wind, the West Wind and the like. They are beautiful like the American Indian gods. My only regret is the limitation upon my acting work, as I can only play oriental roles….”
—Anna May Wong

 

Rare German poster for “Dangerous to Know,” 1938. The poster is better than the film.

 

Augusto Cantamessa, Breve Orizzonte, c. 1955

 

J. M. W. Turner, 1775 – 1851
“Light and Colour”
oil on canvas (78 × 78 cm) — before 1844
The full title of this painting is “Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis.” 
The figure in the centre is Moses. Below him people float in the water. There is fresh light, yellow, derived from Goethe’s theory of colour.
The painting was stolen in 1994 from a museum in Frankfurt where it was on loan from the Tate Gallery. The Gallery retrieved it by buying it on the black market in 2002.

 

Gregory Peck in a publicity photo for To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962.

 

Gregory Peck’s script notes for his role as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.

 

“I never realized how much is done for a star at the studios. There is someone to take care of your hair, your makeup, your clothes, everything. If you have to walk down a hallway in a scene, the director thinks about whether you should do it or a double should be hired.”
— Jeanne Crain

 

1957 Corvette

 

Lee Friedlander
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1963

 

Rick McGinnis
Art Gallery of Ontario, March, 2019

 

John Vachon
“Truck carrying movie poster. Omaha, Nebraska.” November, 1938.

 

Our friend Jackie Danicki poses with one of my paintings—which she owns.

 

Aldo Spadoni
La Bianca Parete, 1954

 

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

 

Ed Ruscha, The End, 2003

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  1. Jeanne Crain, who I liked in movies, said the same thing as in the Basinger book. I have ordered another. I especially liked Jeanne Crain in “People will talk.”

    My college roommate had a 1967 Corvette. I loved it.

    My daughter’s boss, John Baldessari, died last Thursday. We don’t know what effect this will have on her job as she was technically his archivist, although she had become his companion the last few years,

    • Baldessari was a wonderful artist. He was one of the few contemporary artists whose work was infused with a sense of humor, specifically a Hollywood laugh track. RIP

  2. I love the Dorothy Lamour quote — she gets it. I remember telling my wife, years ago, that dancing (and I’m talking about couples dancing, not the modern “Go-Go-like” form of dancing) is a form of, or at least a precursor to, foreplay. She dismissed me at the time, but (years) later finally admitted I was right.

    I like the watch, but for the price, I like the maroon Timex better.

    As a teen, my neighbor owned a similar Corvette. Beautiful car.

    I am fascinated by the Friedlander photo. The poster on the left (Ecstasy) appears to be a movie poster, but I can’t see the usual title, actors, etc. I am also debating if the waitress is a real woman or a mannequinn.

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