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By Robert J. Avrech | May 9, 2013

Hollywood Stars and Cars: I Drive Therefore I Am

Tweet America has long had a love affair with the automobile. Cars are the ultimate expression of form, function, fashion — and speed. But most of all the car represents freedom. Try and remember when you were a teenager yearning for your driver’s license so you could hop into daddy’s car and go, go, go. [...]

Posted in Hollywood, Stars and Cars | Also tagged Cadillac, Corvette, Douglas Fairbanks, Duesenberg, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Jaguar, Janet Gaynor, Jr., Kim Novak, Marilyn Monroe, Nancy Carroll, Packard, Phantom Corsair Cord, Pierce Arrow, Richard Dix, Steve McQueen, T-Bird, Young in Heart | 20 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 23, 2012

The Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters

Tweet From where do we draw wisdom? First and foremost, Seraphic Secret relies on Torah, on the lessons of 3,000 years of Jewish history and on the common sense advice of my wife Karen. And then there are the movies, a moral landscape of immeasurable power where searing images and razor-sharp dialogue deliver lessons in human character [...]

Posted in Hollywood, Screenwriting, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters | Also tagged Andrew Solt, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ben Hecht, Celia Johnson, David Lean, Gloria Grahame, Humphrey Bogart, Noel Coward, Nunnally Johnson, Ronald Neame, Rupert Hughes, Souls For Sale | 8 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, Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable, Gloria Swanson, Harold Lloyd, Pablo Picasso, Pola Negri | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 2, 2011

Friday Footwear: Hollywood Parade

Tweet Glamour depends on mystery, the art of concealment. Hollywood stars of the past and their handlers understood that to maintain the image projected on the screen was a full-time job. Hard working stars like Joan Crawford never appeared in public less than impeccably turned out. Even at their most casual, Hollywood stars of the [...]

Posted in Friday Footwear, Hollywood, Movies | Also tagged Brooks Brothers, Gail Patrick, Gene Kelly, Glamour, Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, Paul Bern, Paulette Goddard, Rodeo Drive, Sabbath, Shabbat | 7 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, Barbara Stanwyck, Billy Wilder, Carl Dreyer, Cary Grant, Day of Wrath, Fred MacMurray, 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 | 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, Barbara Stanwyck, Carl Dreyer, Cary Grant, Day of Wrath, Fred MacMurray, 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

By Robert J. Avrech | December 2, 2010

The Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1930s: ’34-’37

Tweet We continue our survey of the Twenty Greatest Movies of each decade. For The Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1920s, click here. For The Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1930s, click here. For The Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1940′s, click here. Let’s roll: 11. Twentieth Century, 1934. Oscar Jaffe, John Barrymore, a stubborn, [...]

Posted in Great Movies, Greatest Movies of the 1930s, Twenty Greatest Movies of the 1930s | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Desire, Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, Howard Hawks, Irene Dunne, John Barrymore, Madeleine Carroll, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Swing Time, The 39 Steps, The Awful Truth, Twentieth Century | 18 Responses

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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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