Tag Archives: Barbara Stanwyck

By Robert J. Avrech | April 5, 2012

Hollywood Sells: Buy Me Be Me

Tweet Ever since there were Hollywood stars there have been star product endorsements. Corporations and their advertising companies were quick to understand that those larger than life figures floating like angels on the silver screen were potent persuaders. Thus, the synergistic relationship between one product, the movie star, and another product, cigarettes, perfume, makeup, whatever, [...]

Posted in Hollywood, Movie Star Ads | Also tagged Advertising, Bessie Love, Carole Lombard, Dolores Costello, Drew Barrymore, Glamour, Raquel Welsh, Veronica Lake | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 8, 2011

The Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1940s: ’44-’46

Tweet We continue our series of the Twenty Greatest Movies of each decade. Last week we listed the first Ten Greatest Movies of the 1940′s. Our list continues with the next five great movies. 11. Double Indemnity, 1944. Once again, a Barbara Stanwyck performance that is nothing less than perfection. This time Stanwyck plays bad [...]

Posted in Great Movies, Greatest Movies of the 1940s, Hollywood | Also tagged Billy Wilder, Black Narcissus, Cathy O'Donnell, Charles Boyer, Cluny Brown, Dana Andrews, Deborah Kerr, Double Indemnity, Film Noir, Fred MacMurray, Fredric March, Harold Russell, Jennifer Jones, Kathleen Byron, Kitty, Mitchell Leisen, Paulette Goddard, The Best Years of Our Lives | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 1, 2011

The Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1940s: ’40-’43

Tweet Several months ago I started a list of my picks for the Greatest Movies ever made. I began with silent films, made my way through the 30′s, then started the 40′s but got sidetracked by, um, laziness. My apologies. I’m going to continue with my list of the 20 films that I feel are [...]

Posted in Great Movies, Greatest Movies of the 1940s, Hollywood | Also tagged Ball of Fire, Billy Wilder, Carl Dreyer, Cary Grant, Day of Wrath, Fred MacMurray, Ginger Rogers, Greer Garson, Henry Fonda, His Girl Friday, How Green Was My Valley, Irene Dunne, John Ford, Lisbeth Movin, Mitchell Leisen, My Favorite Wife, Random Harvest, Remember the Night, Robert Taylor, Ronald Colman, Rosalind Russell, The Lady Eve, The Major and the Minor, Vivien Leigh, Waterloo Bridge | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 26, 2011

Friday Fotos: Mirror, Mirror

Tweet The business of creating glamour was hard work. And the Hollywood still photographers employed by the studios did a great deal of the heavy lifting. Thorugh their craft they helped manufacture stars by producing shimmering, glamorous images that hinted at beings who were human gods. Who has not seen the stunning George Hurrell photo [...]

Posted in Brigitte Bardot, Hollywood Mirror | Also tagged Bette Davis, Brigitte Bardot, Classic Hollywood, Glamour, Helen Twelvetrees, Hurrell, Lillian Gish, Myrna Loy | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 7, 2010

Catching Up: Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1940′s

Tweet Several months ago I started a list of my picks for the Greatest Movies ever made. I started with silent films, made my way through the 30′s, then started the 40′s but got sidetracked by, um, laziness. My apologies. I’m going to continue with my list of the 20 films that I feel are [...]

Posted in Great Movies, Hollywood | Also tagged Ball of Fire, Carl Dreyer, Cary Grant, Day of Wrath, Fred MacMurray, Ginger Rogers, Greatest Movies, Greer Garson, Henry Fonda, His Girl Friday, Hollywood 1940's, How Green Was My Valley, Irene Dunne, John Ford, Lisbeth Movin, Maureen O'Hara, My Favorite Wife, Random Harvest, Remember the Night, Robert Taylor, Ronald Colman, Rosalind Russell, The Lady Eve, The Major and the Minor, Vivien Leigh, Waterloo Bridge | Leave a comment

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I'm an Emmy Award winning screenwriter. I'm also an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. I've been writing and producing in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen—with whom I have been in love with since I was nine years-old—and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen. Not too long ago, we had three children. But our son, Ariel, died at the age of twenty-two from cancer. We miss him terribly. We think about him practically every minute of every day. People tell us that time heals, but Karen and I know this is not true. Time grinds away doing its terrible work. Ariel is gone. Yet absence becomes presence.

Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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