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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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“The stronger the evil, the stronger the film.” ”Alfred Hitchcock Production still of Janet Leigh and John Gavin shooting the opening hotel scene, Psycho.
“The stronger the evil, the stronger the film.”
—Alfred Hitchcock
Production still, Janet Leigh and John Gavin, the opening hotel scene, Psycho.

“The Quiet Man” memorial statue of Maureen O’Hara and John Wayne, village of Cong, Ireland,1953.
“The Quiet Man” memorial statue of Maureen O’Hara and John Wayne, village of Cong, Ireland,1953.

 

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Statue of Brigitte Bardot, Buzios, Brazil. Buzios is a picturesque beach town that was changed when French film star and sexpot Brigitte Bardot "discovered" the area with her Brazilian boyfriend. Buzios is often called the St. Tropez of Brazil since it has many trendy boutiques, fine restaurants, and expensive villas. Most of the Buzios residents love what Brigitte Bardot did for their village, and they built this statue in her honor. Every male tourist who walks by has to stop and have his picture made sitting in Brigitte's lap,
Statue of Brigitte Bardot, Buzios, Brazil.
Buzios is a picturesque beach town that was changed when French film star and sexpot Brigitte Bardot “discovered” the area with her Brazilian boyfriend. Buzios is often called the St. Tropez of Brazil since it has trendy boutiques, fine restaurants, and expensive villas. Most of the Buzios residents love what Brigitte Bardot did for their village, and they built this statue in her honor.

 

Bardot as a teen model.
Bardot as a teen model.

 

Eyal Gever, (Israel) Blast Cube Back (Multi Layered image), 2011/ 2012, UV LED inkjet prints on 3mm clear acrylic, 10 layers, 188 x 150
Eyal Gever, (Israel) Blast Cube Back (Multi Layered image), 2011/ 2012, UV LED inkjet prints on 3mm clear acrylic, 10 layers, 188 x 150

 

Teapot / tea-infuser Workshop of: Bauhaus Designed by Marianne Brandt Designed 1925-1929
Teapot / tea-infuser
Workshop of: Bauhaus
Designed by Marianne Brandt
Designed 1925-1929

 

“One of the things I always admired about Clark Gable was between scenes, he didn’t go lock himself up in his trailer. He would hang out with the guys, the electricians, they all loved him. He was not full of himself. It was nothing to come to set and find him straddling a bench, playing gim rummy with the crew.” —Ann Rutherford
“One of the things I always admired about Clark Gable was between scenes, he didn’t go lock himself up in his trailer. He would hang out with the guys, the electricians, they all loved him. He was not full of himself. It was nothing to come to set and find him straddling a bench, playing gim rummy with the crew.” —Ann Rutherford

 

Mark Rothko No. 61 (Rust and Blue) [Brown Blue, Brown on Blue] oil on canvas, 1953
Mark Rothko
No. 61 (Rust and Blue) [Brown Blue, Brown on Blue] oil on canvas,
1953
Michael Kenna Evening, Beau Rivage, Nice, France, 1996
Michael Kenna
Evening, Beau Rivage, Nice, France, 1996

 

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926) Theater
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926)
The Theater, 1879

 

Clarence John Laughlin (1905 – 1985)
Clarence John Laughlin (1905 – 1985)

 

Rebecca, 1940 Adaptation: Philip MacDonald Michael Hogan Screenplay by Joan Harrison, Robert E. Sherwood Based on Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca, 1940
Adaptation by: Philip MacDonald, Michael Hogan
Screenplay by Joan Harrison, Robert E. Sherwood
Based on Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

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"Jewish woman of Mogador, Morocco" 1850-1900
“Jewish woman of Mogador, Morocco”
1850-1900

 

Tim Walker Floating Drive-in, Florida , 2005 C-type print 60 x 83 cm
Tim Walker
Floating Drive-in, Florida , 2005
C-type print 60 x 83 cm

 

“The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.” —Mary Pickford
“The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.”
—Mary Pickford

 

Clyfford Still, PH-950, 1950. Oil on canvas, 233.7 x 177.8 cm. Clyfford Still Museum, Denver © City
Clyfford Still,
PH-950, 1950. Oil on canvas, 233.7 x 177.8 cm. Clyfford Still Museum, Denver © City

 

Georges Dambier Suzy Parker, Eiffel Tower, Paris 1954 C-type print 40 x 50 cm
Georges Dambier
Suzy Parker, Eiffel Tower, Paris
1954
C-type print 40 x 50 cm

 

Sacha Goldberger, from the Chabad of 770 series.
Sacha Goldberger, from the Chabad of 770 series.

 

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). Washerwomen at the Roubine du Roi Arles
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). Washerwomen at the Roubine du Roi Arles

 

Robert J. Avrech Silent Picture, Painted Brick Wall, Kew Gardens Hill, 2016
Robert J. Avrech
Silent Picture, Painted Brick Wall with Shadow, Kew Gardens Hill, 2016

 

Ariel, Lielle, Maayan and Livia wish all our friends and relatives a lovely and meaningful Shabbat.
Ariel, Lielle, Maayan and Livia wish all our friends and relatives a lovely and meaningful 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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  1. The “Jewish woman of Mogador, Morocco” reminded me of the scene in the “Wind and the Lion” of the Raisuli (Sean Connery) talking of his confinement in the dungeon’s of Mogador, in which the real Raisuli was put in.

  2. Lielle and Maayan have the prettiest smiles! The floating drive in – I was wondering if this was based on an actual scene and then I knew it couldn’t be – the cars are all 50s German Amphicars – Couldn’t be 5 of them in Florida.

    I laughed out loud at the quote from Rebecca. And Joan Fontain co starrinkg! Didn’t VCivien Leigh come out to Calif (and audition for Gone With the Wind?) simply to be with Lawrence Olivier?

    My mother told me that a childhood friend, Brian Cerini – was the son of Gable’s physician.

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