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By Robert J. Avrech | May 12, 2013

Happy Mother’s Day in Hollywood

Posted in Hollywood, Mother's Day | Also tagged Gary Cooper, Gloria Swanson, Hollywood Mothers, MIckey Rooney | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 28, 2012

Friday Photos: Whatever

Tweet No theme today. Just a random collection of fun photos. Enjoy!

Posted in Friday Fotos, Photography, Family, Girls Love Footwear, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson | Also tagged Harold Lloyd, Lielle Meital, Marilyn Monroe, Mildred Davis | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 27, 2012

Friday Photos: The Not So Glamorous Family

Tweet Hollywood’s Golden Age, from the 20′s to the late thirties, was a dream factory. And glamour was the dream that was sold in every frame of every film. Studios tightly controlled the image of the stars they groomed and promoted, presenting them as glittering jewels, untouched and unsullied by the daily concerns of ordinary [...]

Posted in Colleen Moore, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Jean Harlow | Also tagged Alice Cooper, Anna Garbo, Charlotte Hennesy, Gary Cooper, Glamour, Hollywood Glamour, Mary Pickford | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 8, 2012

Friday Fashion: The Female Animal

Tweet For as long as fashion has existed, animal metaphors have been an indispensible part of the designers language. Hollywood, during its golden age, a leading arbiter of taste, heightened and refined the animal metaphor with brilliant costume designers turning ravishing movie stars into expressions of animal desire.

Posted in Friday Fashion, Friday Footwear, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Myrna Loy, Silent Movies, Travis Banton | Also tagged Adrian, Carole Lombard, Cleopatra, Evelyn Brent, Joan Blondell, Joan Crawford, Josef von Sternberg, Letty Lynton, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Kalloch, Shanghai Express, The Torrent, Theda Bara, Twentieth Century, Underworld | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 10, 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 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 [...]

Posted in Hollywood, Screenwriting, The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood | Also tagged Beast of the City, Jane Greer, Jean Harlow, Jean Peters, John Lee Mahin, Lag BaOmer, Out of the Past, Pickup on South Street, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, Sam Fuller, The Temptress, Wallace Ford | 20 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 27, 2011

In Memoriam: Barbara Kent, 103, Ribbon of Dreams

Tweet Barbara Kent: “I really didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life, but being an actress was not it.” —The Sound of Silence, by Michael Ankerich. Barbara Kent, b. Barbara Cloutman, who passed away a few weeks ago, was one of the last surviving movie stars—Mickey Rooney, ailing and frail might be the [...]

Posted in Barbara Kent, Hollywood, Movies | Also tagged Feet First, Harold Lloyd, John Gilbert, Lonesome, Paul Fejos, Silent Movies, Silent Stars, Welcome Danger | 12 Responses

How I Married Karen

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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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