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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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“If I had any real talent then, it was for designing clothes. I loved the costumes in the movies… If I hadn’t gone into the movies, I’d have become a dress designer; that’s where I seemed to be heading. And I think I’d have been a damn fine one.”
~ Lana Turner: The Lady, the Legend, the Truth by Lana Turner

Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (Denmark, 1863 – 1935)
Woman Near the Dinner Table, 1900
oil on canvas
Private Collection

 

Rick McGinnis
Roycroft Apartments, 707 Eglinton Ave. W., June 2020
From Rick’s series Art Deco Toronto

 

Barbara Eden climbs into the set of her magic bottle on production of I Dream of Jeannie, 1960s.

 

John Swope
Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Hollywood Blvd, 1938

 

Kenneth Noland
The Clown, 1959
oil on canvas
46 1/8 x 46 in.

 

“The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the emotions which would be agonizing to a shy or reserved person. All the great actors have been and are exhibitionists.”
—Leslie Howard (born Leslie Howard Steiner, 1893-1943)

 

Isaack Luttichuys (1616–1673) Portrait of a Young Lady, possibly Susanna Reael
Date: 1656
oil on canvas
Height: 38.9 in; Width: 32.2 in.
Rijksmuseum

 

© Jill Freedman, ca. 1992, Kiosk of adult cinema, South Beach, Miami Beach

 

Jaguar C – Type, 1951 -53

 

Richard C. Miller
Self-portrait with Norma Jeane Dougherty (soon to become Marilyn Monroe) 1946

 

Henri Rousseau (France, 1844 – 1910)
The Football Players, 1908
oil on canvas
100.5 cm X 80.3 cm

 

“The important thing is to sound as the actress would sound if she were doing the actual singing.”
—Marni Nixon,  (born Margaret Nixon McEathron, 1930 – 2016) the singing voice of, among many others, Deborah Kerr, Audrey Hepburn, and Natalie Wood.
Photo © Frank Q. Brown, 1962

 

Edward Hopper
Solitude
1944
oil on canvas: 81.3 cm X 127 cm
private collection

 

Ingrid Bergman, hair and makeup test for Casablanca, 1942

 

The Timex Marlin with California Dial is a sturdy mechanical wrist watch which will either make you smile or drive you crazy. The price is $249.00.

 

Julian Wasser
Dancing at The El Monte Legion Stadium, El Monte, CA, 1962

 

A Hasid and an IDF Paratrooper pray at the Kotel, the Western Wall, Jerusalem. #israel_pictures

 

Lielle Meital wishes all our friends and relatives the best Shabbat ever.

 

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  1. My father knew Lana Turner at Hollywood High. On the C type, they come regularly to the Monterey Historics. On Leslie Howard – true words! Didn’t know about the Churchill angle.

  2. Poor Leslie Howard. He got on a plane with a man who looked like Churchill in Lisbon. As if Churchill would fly commercial. The Germans shot it down anyway.

  3. I would keep the Timex if someone gave it to me, but I could not buy one for myself. The first thing that caught my eye was the tick marks in lieu of 3-6-9-12. I’m not a big fan of that. Then I saw the roman numerals at the 10-11 positions and my mind immediately thought “did they use IV or IIII for the 4 o’clock position? And that’s when my anxiety levels rose!

  4. The 1962 hairdo in the dancing scene. That was a bouffant to end all bouffants. Lana Turner, the “Sweater Girl” musing about dress designing. She got away with stabbing Johnny Stompanato unless 14 year old Cheryl really did it.

    I ran across a story that involved Sean Connery in the whole thing.

    First time I’ve seen a C type Jaguar. Nice. Have a nice weekend.

    • The D-Type is what naturally evolved from the C-Type. Both were made strictly for racing. Althopugh I believe the C-Type is a lot rarer. You should come to the Monterey Historic races sometime (although hotel pricing is scandalous)

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