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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 am not a has been, I am a will be.” —Lauren Bacall
“I am not a has been, I am a will be.”
—Lauren Bacall

Ohara Koson Torii and Crow in the Snow 1910
Ohara Koson
Torii and Crow in the Snow, 1910

 

Sacha Goldberger From the 770 Lubavitch series
Sacha Goldberger
From The 770: Lubavitch of Brooklyn series

 

Frank Lloyd Wright, 'Saguaro Forms and Cactus Flowers.' Rug design, 1955
Frank Lloyd Wright, ‘Saguaro Forms and Cactus Flowers.’ Rug design, 1955

 

Rebecca Lepkoff Gentleman’s Agreement, Lower East Side, New York City, 1947
Rebecca Lepkoff, Gentleman’s Agreement, Lower East Side, New York City, 1947

 

1600s Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (Dutch artist, 1594–1650) Four-Year-Old Girl with Cat and Fish
Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (Dutch artist, 1594–1650) Four-Year-Old Girl with Cat and Fish, 1600s

 

Paul Jenkins (1923-2012) Phenomena Maimonides Mantle, 1979 77 x 75 inches framed: 78 x 76 1/4 inches acrylic on canvas signed lower center
Paul Jenkins (1923-2012)
Phenomena Maimonides Mantle, 1979
77 x 75 inches
acrylic on canvas

 

“Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: “How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty … how could she kill herself?” Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere.” —Marlon Brando
“Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: “How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty … how could she kill herself?” Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere.”
—Marlon Brando

 

Paul Revere Teapot Working Date: ca. 1782
Paul Revere Jr.
Silver Teapot
Working Date: ca. 1782

 

Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby, 1938. Written by Dudley Nichols Hagar Wilde Robert McGowan Based on Bringing Up Baby 1937 short story in Collier's by Hagar Wilde
Cary Grant to Katherine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby, 1938.
Written by Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
Based on Bringing Up Baby 1937 short story in Collier’s by Hagar Wilde

 

Poster - Bringing Up Baby_03

 

William Merritt Chase Portrait of Miss Dora Wheeler, ca, 1883. Signed "W. M. Chase" at upper right. Oil on canvas, 62-1/2 x 65-1/2 inches. Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Boudinot Keith in Memory of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade, November 17, 1921.
William Merritt Chase
Portrait of Miss Dora Wheeler, ca, 1883. Oil on canvas, 62-1/2 x 65-1/2 inches. Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Boudinot Keith in Memory of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade, November 17, 1921.

 

Paul Jenkins Phenomena Blue Held Over 1975 acrylic on canvas 75 x 118 inches 190.5 x 300 cm Milwaukee Art Museum. Gift of Jane Bradley Pettit.
Paul Jenkins
Phenomena Blue Held Over, 1975
acrylic on canvas 75 x 118 inches
Milwaukee Art Museum. Gift of Jane Bradley Pettit.

 

Michael Kenna From the series Concentration Camps, 1989-2000. Stars of David, Westerbrook, Hollandjpg
Michael Kenna
From the series Concentration Camps, 1989-2000. Stars of David, Westerbork.

 

“I couldn’t remember my name for weeks. I’d be at the theater and hear them calling, “Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck”, and I’d think, ‘Where is that dame? Why doesn’t she answer? By crickey, it’s me!’” Young Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Catherine Stevens) by Mitchell Studios NY, 1926. This portrait was taken the year that she changed her name while working as an actress on Broadway.
“I couldn’t remember my name for weeks. I’d be at the theater and hear them calling, “Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck”, and I’d think, ‘Where is that dame? Why doesn’t she answer? By crickey, it’s me!’”
Young Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Catherine Stevens) by Mitchell Studios NY, 1926. This portrait was taken the year that she changed her name while working as an actress on Broadway.

 

James Whistler The Artist in His Studio 1865-66 Oil on paper mounted on panel, 63 x 46 cm Art Institute, Chicago
James Abbot McNeill Whistler
The Artist in His Studio
1865-66
Oil on paper mounted on panel, 63 x 46 cm
Art Institute, Chicago

 

Photo by Ernst Haas (1921–1986)
Photo by Ernst Haas (1921–1986)

 

William Merritt Chase c.1889 Pastel On Paper, Prepared With A Tan Ground, And Wrapped With Canvas Around A Wooden Strainer 48 x 48 in.
William Merritt Chase, Spring Flowers (Peonies)
c.1889
Pastel On Paper, Prepared With A Tan Ground, And Wrapped With Canvas Around A Wooden Strainer
48 x 48 in.

 

Paul Jenkins Phenomena Royal Violet Visitation acrylic on canvas 14' x 4 1/2' 1977
Paul Jenkins
Phenomena Royal Violet Visitation
acrylic on canvas
14′ x 4 1/2′
1977

 

Edward Steichen Anna May Wong, NY, 1930 Selenium Toned Silver Gelatin Print 10 × 8 in
Edward Steichen
Anna May Wong, NY, 1930
Selenium Toned Silver Gelatin Print
10 × 8 in

 

Robert J. Avrech, Silent Picture, Holding Light, Los Angeles, 2016
Robert J. Avrech, Silent Picture, Holding Light, Los Angeles, 2016

 

Ariel wishes all our friends and relatives a joyous and inspirational Shabbat.
Ariel wishes all our friends and relatives a joyous and inspirational Shabbat.

 

Ed Ruscha, The Absolute End, dry pigment on paper, 1982.
Ed Ruscha, The Absolute End, dry pigment on paper, 1982.

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  2. RJ Wagner has an interesting story about Miss Stanwyck in one of his memoirs, both of which I have read.

    Marilyn Monroe’s psychiatrist’s son was a classmate in medical school. Apparently she called him many times threatening suicide. She called him the night she died and he did not do anything. Crying wolf is dangerous.

  3. I enjoy Friday Photos!

    It really takes a special eye to see the “ordinary” – photograph it and it transforms into the surrealistic – as Ernst Haas and Rebecca Lepkoff did.

    I enjoy your pictures of MM, pictures rarely seen by the public.

    Barbara Stanwyck was a looker, wasn’t she?

  4. Thank you again, Robert. After a chaotic morning of IT insanity, it is “leveling” to come to Seraphic Secret to read your Friday Photos.

    – Lauren Bacall has a special sense of self. One not often found in the lime light of Hollywood!
    – Frank Lloyd Wright was a genius. I like his designs, although they all seem similar to me.
    – I was not familiar with Paul Jenkins. I like it a lot, but like Wright, they seem similar.
    – I am continually amazed that Barbara Stanwyck was not always the white-haired, tough matriarch from The Big Valley… hubba-hubba 🙂
    – I always enjoy your Silent Picture selection as well. Perhaps you missed an opportunity behind the camera!

    Always enjoy the photos of your grandchildren. Have a wonderful Sabbath!

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