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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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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Why, Mr. Goldfish, if my career depends on hiding the fact that I was born a Jew, I’d rather not have one.” — Carmel Myers‘ response to Samuel Goldwyn (real name Goldfish) after he suggested that she change her name because it sounded “too Jewish.” I write about the Rabbi’s beautiful daughter, here.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“She liked to read philosophy for pleasure, and you could tell that, beneath the low-keyed clowning, she was very sensitive and introspective. I think if she had lived, and if she managed to get out of the stereotyped roles she was partly trapped in, she could easily have proven one of our best actresses, and splendid in dramatic roles.” – Jack Lemmon on Judy Holliday (1921-1965) b. Judith Tuvim (Hebrew: tovim means good, Yiddish: yomtoyvim means holidays, lit. "good days"
“She liked to read philosophy for pleasure, and you could tell that, beneath the low-keyed clowning, she was very sensitive and introspective. I think if she had lived, and if she managed to get out of the stereotyped roles she was partly trapped in, she could easily have proven one of our best actresses, and splendid in dramatic roles.”
– Jack Lemmon on Judy Holliday (1921-1965) b. Judith Tuvim (Hebrew: tovim means good, Yiddish: yomtoyvim means holidays, lit. “good days”

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