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Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

Æneas MacKenzie

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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The great Olivia De Havilland just celebrated her a 100th birthday (1 July 1916). “I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise lounge, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.”
Olivia de Havilland just celebrated her a 100th birthday (b. 1 July 1916).
“I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise lounge, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.”

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The Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters — They Died With Their Boots On

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Erroll Flynn and Olivia De Havilland as George and Elizabeth Custer in They Died With Their Boots On, 1941.
Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland as George and Elizabeth Custer in They Died With Their Boots On, 1941.

One of the most beautiful and touching films where marriage and family is the central subtext is They Died with Their Boots On (1941), a fanciful retelling of the George Armstrong Custer legend starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland.

The screenplay is by Æneas MacKenzie,Wally Kline, and Lenore J. Coffee.

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