Tag Archives: Joan Blondell

By Robert J. Avrech | June 1, 2018

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in America, Ann Miller, Art, Art Deco, Audrey Totter, Automobiles, Dovima, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Joan Blondell, Judaica, Judaism, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Photography, Rick McGinnis, William Powell | Also tagged Audrey Totter, Dovima, Henry Clarke, Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe, Italian Movie Posters, J.N. Shapiro Infinity Watch, Julia Margaret Cameron, Livia Yarden, Maurice Denis, Michele Morgan, Ori Resheff, Rick McGinnis | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 16, 2017

Hidden Hollywood: Mae Clarke, Girl, Gangster, Grapefruit

Tweet Most actors are remembered for their unique personae. Clark Gable was a man’s man. The humorous gleam in his eye sent daggers to the knees of women everywhere. Bette Davis practically cornered the market on the deeply neurotic woman clawing at the boundaries of love with baroque fury. Gary Cooper was the classic taciturn […]

Posted in Hidden Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke | Also tagged Boris Karloff, Edward Woods, Frankenstein, James Cagney, James Curtis, Jean Harlow, King Vidor, Mae Clarke, The Public Enemy, Violet Mary Klotz, Waterloo Bridge, Wiliam Wellman | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 30, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Art, Betty Grable, Cary Grant, Design, Dovima, Family, Friday Fotos, Ginger Rogers, Great Dialogue, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Blondell, Judaica, Judaism, Lielle Meital, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Rita Hayworth, Ronald Reagan, Screenwriting | Also tagged Albrecht Durer, Ben Hecht, Betty Grable, Bugatti, Celia, D Day Synagogue Services, Dovima, Erwin Blumenfeld, Ginger Rogers, Giuseppe Cesari, Groucho Marx, Hispano-Suiza, Jacob Riis, July 4th Hollywood, Karen Singer Avrech, László Moholy-Nagy, Lee Miller, Lielle, Movie Posters from Poland, Myrna Loy, Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lifshitz, Rena, Renaissance, Rick McGinnis, Ronald Reagan, Sofonisba Anguissola, Theodore Chassériau, Truth About Youth | 15 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 22, 2015

Friday Photos: Welcome to the New La-La Land

Tweet Hollywood was once the dream capital of the world. Movies peddled glamour and fantasy. This was La-La Land where outrageous plots and larger than life characters allowed audiences to construct alternate realities — entertainment. But La-La Land has relocated. On Wednesday, President Obama delivered the commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy in […]

Posted in Art, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Homeland Security, ISIS, Islam, Islam Denial, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Joan Blondell, Movies, Obama Watch, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Photography, Signs, Politics, Progressive Democrats | Also tagged Andy Warhol, Anthony Perkins, Audrey Hepburn, Basil Rathbone, Brigitte Bardot, Disney Concert Hall, Don Ameche, Edgar Degas, Edward Hopper, Hedy Lamarr, Jimmy Stewart, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Rothko, Martin Puryear, Photography, Sandra Dee, Steve McQueen, The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer, Vermeer, Wayne Thiebaud | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 2, 2014

Take #1: The Meaning of Leaning in Hollywood

Tweet Leaning boards ( also called Slant boards) were invented for Hollywood players to relax between takes. Frequently, the costumes were cut on the bias, and tailored so snugly that the actor could not sit down without bursting a ladder of seams. In fact, most of the time, there were no zippers or buttons on […]

Posted in Adrian, Fashion, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Leaning Boards, Movies, Photography, Rita Hayworth, Tony Curtis | Also tagged Adrian, Agnes Moorhead, Ann Miller, Ann Sheridan, Barbara Jo Allen, Boris Karloff, Charles Vidor, Dolores Gray, Hedy Lamarr, Janet Gaynor, Janet Leigh, Jean Harlow, Joan Collins, June Allyson, Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, Tony Curtis | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 17, 2014

Barbara Stanwyck’s Secrets

Tweet The new Barbara Stanwyck biography, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel True, 1907 – 1940 by Victoria Wilson, is, with appendix, footnotes, index and acknowledgements, over 1,000 pages long. And it is just volume one. This first, full scale bio of Barbara Stanwyck is an exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) study of Hollywood’s greatest actress. […]

Posted in Barbara Stanwyck, Book Reviews, Books, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars | Also tagged Abortion in Hollywood, Bette Davis Joan Crawford, Clifford Odets, Elsa Lanchester, Frank Fay, George Barnes, Gloria Swanson, Grace Kelly, Judy garland, Lana Turner, Louise Rainer, Myrna Loy, Nancy Bernard, Rita Hayworth, Victoria Wilson | 10 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 3, 2014

Hollywood Mothers

Tweet On screen, they are larger than life. Hollywood stars seduce us with their glamor. They become the vehicles of our dreams and desires. We rarely imagine them as ordinary people. And so, when we see a Hollywood star posing with family members—mortals like you and me—it comes as something of a shock. But after […]

Posted in Hollywood, Hollywood Moms, Hollywood Stars, Joan Blondell | Also tagged Bette Davis, Claudette Colbert, Doris Day, Greer Garson, Linda Darnell, Rock Hudson, Tyrone Power | 14 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, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Josef von Sternberg, Letty Lynton, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Kalloch, Shanghai Express, The Torrent, Theda Bara, Twentieth Century, Underworld | 14 Responses

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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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Fourteenth: June 11, 2016
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

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Thirteenth: May 22, 2016
Ben Shapiro: “How You Can Save Israel”

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Twelfth: June 7, 2015
Larry Elder: “The New Black Anti-Semitism”

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Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”

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Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”

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Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”

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Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”

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Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”

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Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: “Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?”

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Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: “What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania.”

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