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

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“It was after she said that she wanted to be in The Brothers Karamazov,” Wilder went on, “that she started going to the Actors’ Studio School of Dramatic Arts in New York. She didn’t do it for publicity. She’s sincerely trying to improve herself, and I think she should be admired for that. She could have sat here in Hollywood on her pretty little fanny and collected all of the money any ordinary actress would ever want, but she keeps trying.”
— Pete Martin’s interview with Billy Wilder for The Saturday Evening Post in 1956.
Billy Wilder and Marilyn Monroe on the set of Some Like it Hot, 1958

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New Years 2020 Hollywood Flashback

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Here are some classic Hollywood New Years images.

Betty Grable and her, um, legs help usher in a new year.

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“I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I’m happy with that.”
—Veronica Lake

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New Years 2019

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Here are some classic Hollywood New Years images.

Betty Grable and her, um, legs help usher in a new year.

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Question: What, finally, does the cinema mean to you?
Akira Kurosawa: It’s simple: take myself, subtract movies, and the result is zero.

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