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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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“Too much glamour, too much sin, repeated often, become monotonously dull. I’m speaking now about the screen, of course.”
—Kay Francis

Jacob Ochtervelt (Dutch, 1634–1682)
A child and nurse in the foyer of an elegant townhouse, the parents beyond, 1663
oil on canvas
81.5 x 66.8 cm. (32.1 x 26.3 in.)

 

Fred Lyon
Children Street Sledding Down a Steep Hill, North Beach, San Francisco, 1952

 

Rick McGinnis
Steel Pier, Atlantic City NJ, Oct. 2019

 

“You’re only as good as your last picture”
—Marie Dressler

 

Albrecht Durer
(b. 1471, Nürnberg, d. 1528, Nürnberg)
Portrait of Barbara Dürer (artist’s mother)
1490
Oil on pine panel, 47 x 38 cm

 

Audrey Hepburn, photographed by Leo Fuchs during the filming of The Nun’s Story, Belgian Congo, 1959

 

Illinois Watch Company Ritz, 1929, an Art Deco masterpiece.

 

Photo by Vivien Maier

 

Robert J. Avrech
Stroke of Orange, 2020
acrylic on canvas
20 in. X 20 in.

 

“The light that you think you emanate is not necessarily the light that other people see. You think of yourself as a shy, retiring whatever it is, and some other people will see you in an entirely different way. You have to constantly learn. Obviously, you have to start with some kind of gift, but people don’t understand that. … I don’t have a gift for anything. I’ve only had a gift of pursuit.”
—Paul Newman

 

Agnes Pelton
Sea Change, 1931. Courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

 

William Heick, Hats, 1951

 

1936–40 SS Jaguar 100

 

Miriam Hopkins and Claudette Colbert in The Smiling Lieutenant, 1931, a Pre-code gem.
Screenplay by Samson Raphaelson, Ernest Vajda
Directed by Ernst Lubitch

 


“In July 2017, Israeli historian Yoram Meital stumbled upon a handwritten 1028 CE biblical codex that was lying abandoned on a dusty shelf in a Cairo synagogue.” More here.

 

Ariel Chaim wishes all our friends and relatives a lovely and virus-free Shabbat.

 

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  1. My grandmother worked at a passport office in New York and collected some autographed passport photos of famous people. One of the ones we have is if Marie Dresser.

    She also got Jimmy Durante’s, George M. Cohan, “Strangler” Lewis, George Jessel, Ethel Barrymore. And a couple of others.

    She had Charles and Anne Lindbergh’s photos, but not autographed. And she also had Ethel’s brother’s (Lionel, I think, but it could be John) unautographed photo.

    There may be others, but I don’t recall.

    The sad thing is the George M. Cohan’s photo was the typical cheap photo that wasn’t properly fixed, so it’s faded very badly over the years, even sitting in darkness.

  3. Is that the same Jaguar roadster?

    I have never heard of Kay Francis. Looked her up. I don’t think I ever saw one of her movies.

    My favorite Paul Newman movie is “Absence of Malice” which I watch every few months. Second is “Butch Cassidy.”

    “The Nuns Story” is said to be Audrey’s favorite role. If I ever saw it, I don’t recall. Watched “Working Girl” last night. I have your movie, ” A Stranger Among Us” to watch.

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