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By Robert J. Avrech | March 30, 2012

Friday Fashion: Hollywood Hats for Passover

Tweet Passover is almost here. Cleaning, changing dishes, and buying Passover food takes up a huge amount of time and energy. Observant Jews also take the opportunity to purchase new clothing in honor of the holiday in which we celebrate our deliverance from Egyptian bondage. Orthodox women cover their heads in synagogue—a sign of modesty—thus [...]

Posted in Anita Page, Friday Fashion, Holidays, Hollywood, Hollywood Hats, Passover | Also tagged Bette Davis, Cecil Beaton, David Lean, Edward Stevenson, Fashions of 1934, Grace Kelly, House of Flying Daggers, Joy of Living, Kalloch, Leslie Howard, Mary Nolan, Miriam Hopkins, The Old Maid, Wendy Hiller, William Powell, Ziyi Zhang | 10 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, Ginger Rogers, Greer Garson, Henry Fonda, His Girl Friday, How Green Was My Valley, 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, Ginger Rogers, Greatest Movies, Greer Garson, Henry Fonda, His Girl Friday, Hollywood 1940's, How Green Was My Valley, 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, Ginger Rogers, Howard Hawks, John Barrymore, Madeleine Carroll, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Swing Time, The 39 Steps, The Awful Truth, Twentieth Century | 18 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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