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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 didn’t show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.”
—John Ford

Henri de Toulouse -Lautrec, May Belfort , 1895. Crayon, brush, and spatter lithograph, printed in five colors. Keystone printed in olive green, color stones in red , black, gray, and yellow on wove paper, 31 5⁄16 × 24 in. Private collection

 

Milton H.Greene, Dovima, 1952

 

Edward Hopper, Drugstore, 1927

 

Photo by Hengki Koentjoro

 

Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior, Strandgade 30, 1901, Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm, Private Collection

 

Rick McGinnis
Yellowstone National Park, July 2016

 

Carole Werner, Romy Schneider and Cat, 1965

 

Doni Silver Simons,
Acrylic on canvas, Untitled (In the Nine Days) 36″ x 36″, 2009

 

“I have never had a single close intimate girlfriend in all my life. I never had a chum to whom I could confide all my secrets. I suppose this accounts for the fact that now it is so painfully difficult for me to open my heart. You have to learn so very young to open your heart.”
—Jean Arthur

 

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, May Milton, 1895. Crayon, brush, spatter, and transferred screen lithograph, printed in five colors. Keystone printed in olive green, color stones in blue, red, yellow, and black on wove paper, 31 5⁄16 × 24 in. Private collection

 

Richard Avedon, Dovima, 1950’s

 

Vilhelm Hammershøi, Figures by the Window, c.1895, Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm, Private Collection

 

Photo by Todd Webb, Cobblestones, Provence, France, 1977

 

Unknown American artist, Mary Ann Elizabeth Thum of Philadelphia with bird, 1790s

 

Boston Post, Massachusetts, June 5, 1921
In 1921 Bebe Daniels was cruising in her Marmon Roadster with current beau boxer Jack Dempsey (and her mother, chaperone for proprieties sake). When they crossed the into Orange County she was pulled over for speeding — she was going 56 ½ MPH. The judge in the case was notorious for giving steep fines to anyone going above the speed limit, as well as jail time for anyone going over 50 – and Bebe was no exception. She told the motorcycle officers at the scene that she’d been speeding because her radiator had sprung a leak, she wanted to get it fixed before more trouble ensued, but they didn’t buy it.. neither did the jury.
She was sentenced to 10 days in jail, although some critics were unimpressed when she was gifted a full bedroom set (including a rug and a phonograph) from a local furniture store for her Santa Ana cell, claiming that it looked like a boudoir scene from a movie. They also ridiculed the fact that her mother stayed with her for the majority of the term, and weren’t impressed when she bragged about her guest book which she claimed had racked up 721 signatures from visitors while in the clink. On her first day in jail the judge who sentenced her welcomed her with a bouquet of roses. She was pretty upbeat about the whole thing though, telling the sheriff that “This is a comfy little place, anyhow. It will be sort of a quiet vacation.”

Via: Yesterday’s Print

 

Rick McGinnis
Yellowstone National Park, July 2016

 

Bette Davis in The Letter, 1940
Screenplay by Howard E. Koch
Based on 1927 play The Letter by W. Somerset Maugham

 

Bronwyn Oliver (Australia, 1959-2006)
Clef
1993
Copper
110 × 45 × 40 cm
© Estate of Bronwyn Oliver. Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Photo: © TarraWarra Museum of Art and Dr Marcus Bunyan

 

“I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.”
—Gloria Swanson, 1922

 

Samuel Rothbort
Artist’s Shadow Over Ruth in Bed, 1931
oil on canvas, handmade frame, 34.65 in.H x35.75 in. W

 

Rick McGinnis
Steve Buscemi, Toronto, Sept. 1992

 

 

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Cover for L’Estampe originale, 1893. Brush and spatter lithograph, printed in six colors. Keystone printed in olive green, color stones in beige, salmon red, red, yellow, and black on wove paper. Only state, 22 1/4 × 25 11⁄16 in. Private collection

 

Richard Avedon, Dovima with Elephants
Evening dress by Christian Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, August 1955

 

Vilhelm Hammershøi, Double Portrait of the Artist and his Wife, seen through a Mirror, The Cottage Spurveskjul, c.1911, Oil on canvas, 55,2 x 76 cm, Private Collection

 

The Triumph of Mordechai, 1988
Purim Noisemaker by Moshe Zabari, Israeli, b. 1935
Silver, lapis lazuli, and carnelian, 3 1/2 × 6 1/4 × 1 in. (34.3 × 15.9 × 2.5 cm)

 

Robert & Karen Avrech
Skin Worship
Beverly Hills, 2017

 

Livia Yarden wishes all our friends and relatives a lovely and inspirational Shabbat.

 

 

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  1. In looking at the photo of Gloria Swanson, I wonder about the fashion of flat chested women in the 1920s. I assume it was a reaction to the “Gibson Girl” look of the 1910 era where wasp waists and large boobs were the fashion. I have a photo of my mother about 1926 dressed in the highest fashion of the time. She was living in Hollywood at the time. One of her claims to fame was that she had danced with Victor McLaglen, probably before he became well known. Although he was a leading man in 1926 so maybe I underestimated her.

    • An interesting point, Michael Kennedy. My paternal grandmother was known as something of a flapper in the 1920, but I hadn’t drawn the comparison to the Gibson Girls era, with their tight corsets to create a thin waist and to accentuate a woman’s bust/derriere.

      Flappers did away with the corset fashion and tended to wear bras that flattened their chests and created a “boyish look”. The bobbed hairstyles further added to the effect.

      For me, I’ve always preferred the “ample bosom” fashion over the “boyish” look… 😉

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