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Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

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Flashback: When Hollywood Celebrated Christmas

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Mary Pickford helps Hollywood celebrate Christmas, 1920s.
Mary Pickford (born Gladys Louise Smith, Toronto, Canada, 1892 – 1979) helps Hollywood celebrate Christmas, 1920s.

There was a time when Hollywood openly and joyously celebrated Christmas. Now, among the Hollywood elite, the greeting I hear is “Happy Holidays.”

Look, we at Seraphic Secret are Orthodox Jews. This is not our holiday.

But we want our Christian friends to celebrate Christmas. The politically correct Happy Holidays shtick is another nail in the coffin of American culture; another instance where a minority of obnoxious liberals bully the larger culture into secular nothingness.

American Christianity is a unique force for good in world history. It is not the Christianity of Europe that is poisoned with genocidal Jew-hatred.

Hollywood  once celebrated Christmas using every tool in their visual playbook.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding.”
—Raquel Welsh (born Jo Raquel Tejada; 1940- )

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I’d like people to remember me as someone who was good at his job and seemed to mean what he said.”
—James Stewart revisits one of the air force bases where he was stationed during his service with the United States Army Air Corps during WWII.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I don’t feel like I’m really in the public eye because I feel like I’m one of the public.”
—Cloris Leachman, RIP (1926 – 2021) Her most memorable role was as the neglected housewife in The Last Picture Show, 1971, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Flashback: When Hollywood Celebrated Christmas

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Mary Pickford helps Hollywood celebrate Christmas, 1920s.
Mary Pickford (born Gladys Louise Smith, Toronto, Canada, 1892 – 1979) helps Hollywood celebrate Christmas, 1920s.

There was a time when Hollywood openly and joyously celebrated Christmas. Now, among the Hollywood elite, the greeting I hear is “Happy Holidays.”

Look, we at Seraphic Secret are Orthodox Jews. This is not our holiday.

But we want our Christian friends to celebrate Christmas. The politically correct Happy Holidays shtick is another nail in the coffin of American culture; another instance where a minority of obnoxious liberals bully the larger culture into secular nothingness.

American Christianity is a unique force for good in world history. It is not the Christianity of Europe that is poisoned with genocidal Jew-hatred.

Hollywood used to celebrate Christmas using every tool in the cinematic playbook.

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