Tag Archives: Harold Lloyd

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 Greta Garbo, Lielle Meital, Marilyn Monroe, Mildred Davis | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 26, 2012

Friday Photos: Stars And Their Cars

Tweet Automobiles represent freedom. You climb into a car and go, go, go, whenever and wherever you want. The car is modern man’s most potent symbol of, and path to liberty. Contrast cars with trains. Trains and subways are an expression of the collective. Individual identity is erased. You are at the mercy of a […]

Posted in Colleen Moore, Friday Fotos, High Speed Rail, Hollywood, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, Stars and Cars, William Powell | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, Al Jolson, Buck Jones, Buick, Cadillac, Cadillac Phaeton, Carl Brisson, Colleen Moore, Deusenberg, Freedom, Gary Cooper, Isotta Fraschini, Jazz Singer, Mercedes, Mildren Davis, Open Road, Packard Special, Stepin Fetchit | 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, Ginger Rogers, Gloria Swanson, Pablo Picasso, Pola Negri | 11 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, Charlie Chaplin, John Candy, John Hughes, Planes, Steve Martin, Thanksgiving Movies, Trains and Automobiles | 8 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, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lonesome, Paul Fejos, Silent Movies, Silent Stars, Welcome Danger | 12 Responses

How I Married Karen

The new book
by Robert J. Avrech

Available in All Major Book Stores

Adobe Digital Edition's version is available through the Lulu store!
About Me
Robert J. Avrech
Los Angeles, California
Notify: Subscribe via e-mail

Get an e-mail notification when Seraphic Secret is updated:
email:
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.
Search Seraphic Secret
Annual Ariel Avrech
Memorial Lectures
Young Israel of Century City

Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: "The War Against Judaism on the University Campus." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 16MB)

Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: "The Mainstream Media's Betrayal of Israel." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 15MB)

Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: "What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 18MB)

Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: "Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 80MB)

Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: "Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?" Blog Post | Audio (mp3 64MB)

Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: "What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 70MB)
Tags

Al Sharpton Arab Spring Ava Gardner Barack Obama Bette Davis Big Government Blood Libel Brigitte Bardot Carole Lombard Cary Grant Charlie Chaplin Clark Gable Classic Hollywood Gary Cooper Genocide Glamour Grace Kelly Greta Garbo Hollywood Hollywood Glamour Hollywood History IslamoNazis Israel Jean Harlow Jeremiah Wright Jesse Jackson Jew-hatred Jimmy Stewart Joan Crawford Karen Karen Singer Avrech Liberal Facism Liberal Media Lielle Meital Los Angeles Ma'ayan Ariel Marilyn Monroe Marlene Dietrich Mary Pickford Myrna Loy Nuclear Iran Obama Shabbat Socialism Trayvon Martin