Tag Archives: Charlie Chaplin

By Robert J. Avrech | September 30, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaica, Painting, Photography, Rosh Hashanah, Screenwriting, Shabbos, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Albrecht Durer, Anna May Wong, Brandon Nimmo, Cary Grant, Christoper Dresser, Edouard Manet, Edward Steichen, George Hurrell, Irving Penn, Jules Furthman, Katharine Hepburn, Loretta Young, Marlene Dietrich, Milton Avery, Morris Louis, Nicholas Maes, NY Mets, Only Angels Have Wings, Orazio Gentileschi, Richard Avedon, Rita Hayworth, Robert Montgomery, The Thief of Bagdad, Tsuguharu Fujita | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 29, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Painting, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Adolph Gottlieb, André Kertész, Berthe Morisot, Bill Brandt, Cary Grant, David Hockney, Edgar Degas, Edouard Boubat, Egon Schiele, Eve Arnold, Herbert List, Jay DeFeo, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Kenna, Rolex, Sophia Loren, Sunset Boulevard, William Holden | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 25, 2016

Hidden Hollywood: Broncho Billy, Son of a Jewish Gun

Tweet In 1965, a frail old man in a wheelchair appeared in the no-budget western, The Bounty Killer. For those of us who love movies, especially westerns, this is a bittersweet moment. Because the man who invented the western movie hero makes his last appearance on the silver screen. That man was Broncho Billy Anderson. But […]

Posted in Broncho Billy, Hidden Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jewish Hollywood, John Wayne, Movie Posters, Movies, Silent Movies | Also tagged Essany, Francis X. Bushman, Marguerite Clayton, Max Aaronson, Mollie Louise Schabbleman, Westerns | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 8, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Actors, Art, Edith Head, Errol Flynn, Family, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Fontaine, Lielle Meital, Maayan Ariel, Marlon Brando, Movie Posters, Movies, Olivia De Havilland, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Silent Movies, They Died With Their Boots On, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Deborah Kerr, Dinner at Eight, Edith Head, Edvard Munch, Edward Hopper, Errol Flynn, Jean Harlow, Joan Fontaine, Lenore Coffee, Leon Berkowitz, Marie Dressler, Marlon Brando, Noel Neill, Olivia de Havilland, Sabine Weiss, Sari Srulovitch, Smith & Wesson, They Died, Tiffany and Co., To Each His Own, W. Eugene Smith, Wally Kline, Æneas MacKenzie | 19 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 26, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions, How to be Beautiful

Posted in Art, Fashion, Friday Footwear, Greta Garbo, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Self-Portrait, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Angelika Kauffmann, Anna Waser, Clifford Still, Elisabetta Sirani, Eugene Robert Richee, Francesco del Cairo, George Dambier, Giovanni Fattori, Greta Garbo, Helen Frankenthaler, Ilse Bing, Irving Penn, Lotte Beese, Louise Brooks, Makeup in Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe, Self-Portrait, shoes, Steve Cohn, Vivian Maier | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 28, 2015

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Edward Hopper, Elvis Presley, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Movie Posters, Movies, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged A Clockwork Orange, Bela Lugosi, Brancusi, Cary Grant, Cornell Capa, Douglas Fairbanks, Dracula, Helen Chandler, James Nares, Jewish Partisans in World War II, Kim Novak, Lauren Bacall, Magen David Adom, Robert Capa, The Beatles, Vertigo | 16 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 19, 2014

Friday Photos: Because the World Really is Burning

Tweet Is it our imagination or is the global order falling into systemic disorder? North Korea, a giant gulag, has managed to intimidate the entire Hollywood system. Meanwhile, the Obama regime, allegedly sworn to defend and protect America from all threats foreign and domestic, seems far more interested in cozying up to the ruthless tyrants […]

Posted in Art, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Chanukah, Clark Gable, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Leaning Boards, Marilyn Monroe, Movies | Also tagged American citizenship, Genia Keiler, Grace Kelly, James Nares, JM Turner, Kotel, Leaning Boards, Ma'ayan Ariel, My Fair Lady, Red Dust, Rex Harrison, The Great Dictator, Vermeer | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 3, 2014

Silent Star Esther Ralston: Why Do All My Husbands Want to Kill Me? Part I

Tweet They called her, the American Venus. She lived in a Hollywood mansion with a staff of servants. Her chauffeur drove a limited edition limousine. But she ended her days in a trailer park in Ventura, California.

Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Esther Ralston, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Silent Movies | Also tagged George Webb, Herbert Brenon, Lon Chaney, Mary Brian, Old Ironsides, Peter Pan, Some Day We'll Laugh, The American Venus, Victor Fleming | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 2, 2012

Hollywood on Trial

Tweet There is nothing Hollywood fears as much as a messy public trial. For movie stars, civil or criminal charges often spell the end of reputation and livelihood. In 1921, the false rape and murder charges against the wonderful knock-about comedian, Roscoe Arbuckle, destroyed his brilliant career—in pre-income tax dollars he earned a million a […]

Posted in Hollywood, Hollywood on Trial, Lupe Velez | Also tagged Dolores Del Rio, Hollywood Glamour, Jetta Goudal, Joan Barry, Mary Pickford, Roscoe Arbuckle | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 10, 2012

Friday Footwear: Hollywood Steps Out

Tweet Classic photos of Hollywood stars usually reinforce a particular image. Lighting, composition, body language, wardrobe and the singular architecture of the face are the ingredients that create a glamorous narrative for audiences to internalize. Clark Gable is the man’s man who doesn’t give a damn; Carole Lombard, the girl next door who will drive […]

Posted in Brigitte Bardot, Clark Gable, Friday Fashion, Friday Footwear, Gloria Swanson, Hollywood | Also tagged Brigitte Bardot, Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Ginger Rogers, Gloria Swanson, Harold Lloyd, Pablo Picasso, Pola Negri | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 20, 2012

Friday Fashion: Hollywood Males It In

Tweet The operative word is effortless. In truth, Chaplin’s style was only achieved through the superlative tailoring of the English Savile Row firm, Anderson & Sheppard. As the new book, Anderson & Sheppard: A Style is Born, edited by Graydon Carter and Cullen Murphy, makes clear, the venerable British tailors shunned actors and other show-biz […]

Posted in Books, Clark Gable, Friday Fashion, Hollywood, Joan Crawford, Men's Fashion, Rudolph Valentino | Also tagged Anderson & Sheppard, Anderson & Sheppard: A Style is Born, Douglas Fairbanks, Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, Hollywood Glamour, Marlene Dietrich, Savile Row, Victor Fleming, Vivien Leigh | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 23, 2011

Seraphic Secret Hollywood Star Quiz: Answer Revealed

Posted in Hollywood, Hollywood Star Quiz | Also tagged A Woman of Paris, Adolph Menjou, Paths of Glory, Style, The Director's Cut: A Theda Bara Mystery | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 24, 2011

The Greatest Thanksgiving Movie

Tweet Seraphic Secret usually recommends classic Hollywood movies to help celebrate our national holidays. But this year we’re going to switch gears and recommend one of our favorite Thanksgiving movies, Plains, Trains and Automobiles, 1987. Not only is this one of the finest, most touching Thanksgiving movie ever made, but it’s also the best film […]

Posted in Great Movies, Hollywood, Thanksgiving | Also tagged Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, John Candy, John Hughes, Planes, Steve Martin, Thanksgiving Movies, Trains and Automobiles | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 17, 2011

Hollywood For Sale

Tweet Tweet Debbie Reynolds The Auction tomorrow, June 18, 2011, is your chance to own a slice of Hollywood history. Hollywood’s Golden Age is over. The great stars exist only as silvery shadows on the screen. But some of the most important movie costumes and props, collected and preserved by actress Debbie Reynolds, […]

Posted in Debbie Reynolds | Also tagged Auction, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Classic Movies, Costume Design, Elizabeth Taylor, Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe, Walter Plunkett | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 24, 2010

The Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1930s: ’30-’33

Tweet Clark Gable, the greatest male star of the 1930’s. Gable was glamorous yet rugged, a man’s man. Women wanted him and men wanted to be him. We continue our decade-by-decade survey of The Twenty Greatest Movies. Last week we examined the 1920’s, the era of silent movies where a particular American vitality found expression […]

Posted in Great Movies, Greatest Movies of the 1930s, Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1930s | Also tagged Adrian, Bed of Roses, Ben Hecht, Bombshell, City Lights, Clara Bow, Clark Gable, Constance Bennett, Duck Soup, Ernst Lubitch, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Herbert Marshall, Jackie Cooper, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Joel McCrea, John Barrymore, John Lee Mahin, Josef von Sternberg, Jules Furthman, Kay Francis, Marlene Dietrich, Marx Brothers, Mary Astor, Miriam Hopkins, Myrna Loy, Paul Bern, Pert Kelton, Possessed, Red Dust, Samson Raphelson, Shanghai Express, The Champ, Topaze, Troble in Paradise, Victor Fleming, Wallace Beery | 17 Responses

How I Married Karen

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About Me
Robert J. Avrech
Los Angeles, California
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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Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

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Ben Shapiro: “How You Can Save Israel”

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Larry Elder: “The New Black Anti-Semitism”

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Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”

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David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”

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Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”

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Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”

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Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”

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Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: “Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?”

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Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: “What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania.”

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