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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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“Sometimes I think we lay too much stress on freedom. No one can be absolutely free, When we cut every tie that binds us to our families or shed every responsibility toward other people, are we really free or are we merely alone?”
—Norma Shearer

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New Years 2020 Hollywood Flashback

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Here are some classic Hollywood New Years images.

Betty Grable and her, um, legs help usher in a new year.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I’m a lot more sartorial than thespian. They come to see me and go out humming the costumes.”
—Constance Bennett (b. Constance Campbell Bennett, 1904 – 1965)

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I made my own image because I refused to change my name or my hair. They wanted to change me completely when I first came over because that was the standard thing to do. They took stars from Hungary, Germany, France, and tried to change them – to make them more beautiful to American eyes, I suppose. But then they became just like all the other American stars that were there. Lots of publicity stills in bathing suits and hats and all that.”
—Ingrid Bergman

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.”
—Dolores del Rio

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