Tag Archives: Marilyn Monroe

By Robert J. Avrech | August 12, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Barbara Stanwyck, Cary Grant, Chabad, Design, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Painting, Quotes, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Bringing Up Baby, Cary Grant, Ed Ruscha, Edward Steichen, Ernst Haas, Frank Lloyd, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, James Abbot McNeill Whistler, Lauren Bacall, Marlon Brando, Michael Kenna, Paul Jenkins, Paul Revere Jr., William Merritt Chase | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | August 5, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Gloria Grahame, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Fontaine, Marilyn Monroe, Movies, Painting, Photography, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Quotes, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Crossfire, Edward Hopper, Egon Schiele, Esther Bubley, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gloria Grahame, Henri Rousseau, Ida Wyman, Jimmy Cagney, Joan Fontaine, John Gutman, Lauren Bacall, Michael Kenna, Mori-Shunkei, N.C. Wyeth, Paul Gauguin, Rebecca Lepkoff, Ruth Orkin, Sacha Goldberger, Stanley Kubrick, William Eggleston | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 29, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Painting, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Adolph Gottlieb, André Kertész, Berthe Morisot, Bill Brandt, Cary Grant, Charlie Chaplin, David Hockney, Edgar Degas, Edouard Boubat, Egon Schiele, Eve Arnold, Herbert List, Jay DeFeo, Michael Kenna, Rolex, Sophia Loren, Sunset Boulevard, William Holden | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 3, 2016

Flashback: July 4th, When Hollywood Was Patriotic

Tweet A long time ago, in a universe far, far away, in a place called Hollywood, the movie studios and the actors who flourished in the dream factories, celebrated their love of America and enthusiastically indulged in overt displays of patriotism.

Posted in Actors, America, Ava Gardner, Colleen Moore, Helen Twelvetrees, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, July 4th | Also tagged Ava Gardner, Bette Davis, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Twelvetrees, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Leila Hyams, Madge Evans, Timothy Oulton | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 16, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Actors, Alfred Hitchcock, Anna May Wong, Art, Design, Family, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Madge Bellamy, Marilyn Monroe, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Photography, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Photography, Signs, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Ann Dvorak, Arthur Dove, Canada Dry Spur Cola, Casablanca, Edward H, Georgiana Houghton, Horst B. Horst, Josef Hoffmann, Madge Bellamy, Spur Soda, William Harnett, Winslow Homer | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 3, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Friday Fotos, Ginger Rogers, Gloria Swanson, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Andrew Wyeth, Captain Thomas Smith, Childe Hassam, Gene Davis, Ginger Rogers, Gloria Swanson, Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman, James Whistler, John Frederick Peto, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Mennonite Quilts, Puritans, Richard Avedon, Self-Portrait, Stuart Davis, Winslow Homer | 15 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 27, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Elizabeth Taylor, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaism, Marilyn Monroe, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Adam Tihany, Adolph Von Menzel, Bert Hardy, Charles Demuth, Edward Hopper, Elizabeth Taylor, Fede Galizia, Gabriele Münter, Henry Fonda, High Sierra, Jeff Gusky, Joel Shapiro, Marie Antoinette, Nina Leen, Olga Chekova, Ruth Orkin, Stuart Davis, William Michael Harnett | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 20, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Brigitte Bardot, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Dolores Del Rio, Domenico Fetti, E.O. Hoppe, Edward Steichen, Elizabeth Taylor, François Kollar, Gail Patrick, Georgiana Houghton, Harry Todd, Hosoda Eishi, James Mason, John Fredrick Peto, Massimo Stanzione, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michal Baratz Koren, Mori Tessan, Moshe Zabari, Paul Newman, Vilhelm Hammershøi, William Claxton | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 26, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions, How to be Beautiful

Posted in Art, Fashion, Friday Footwear, Greta Garbo, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Self-Portrait, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Angelika Kauffmann, Anna Waser, Charlie Chaplin, Clifford Still, Elisabetta Sirani, Eugene Robert Richee, Francesco del Cairo, George Dambier, Giovanni Fattori, Greta Garbo, Helen Frankenthaler, Ilse Bing, Irving Penn, Lotte Beese, Louise Brooks, Makeup in Hollywood, Self-Portrait, shoes, Steve Cohn, Vivian Maier | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 22, 2016

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Friday Fotos, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Painting, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Allan Grant, Ancient Israel, Bonnie Barnes, Claudette Colbert, Diego Velazquez, Ed Ruscha, Edward Hopper, Elizabeth Taylor, Ellsworth Kelly, Grace Kelly, Jericho, Joan Crawford, John Ford, John Wayne, Lucas Cranach The Elder, Marlene Dietrich, Matisse, Orson Welles, Picasso, Rita Hayworth, Sean Scully, Skylark, Sofonisba Anguissola, Touch of Evil | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 25, 2015

Thanksgiving 2015: The Children of the Children of Israel

Tweet As far as I know, there are only two countries in the world that were founded on the idea of hope. America and Israel. And what was the hope? The hope of achieving religious freedom, and freedom from the tyranny of centralized government. The Children of Israel, fleeing Egyptian slavery and religious persecution, settled […]

Posted in America, Barbara Kent, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Israel, Judaism, Judaism & Christianity, Thanksgiving | Also tagged Carole Lombard, Children of Israel, Clark Gable, Exodus, Pilgrim Identification with Jews, Thanksgiving, Vera Allen | 11 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 20, 2015

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Posted in Art, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, True Hollywood Confessions | Also tagged Agnolo Bronzino, Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Degas, Edward Hopper, George Seeley, Ghirlandaio Domenico, Helen Frankenthaler, Joe DiMaggio, Joseph Cornell, Julia Margaret Cameron, Kathy Muehlemann, Lana Turner, Lewis Hine, Marie-Gabrielle Capet, Roy Lichtenstein, Tobi Kahn, Vilhelm Hammershøi, w | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 4, 2015

A Hollywood July 4th

Tweet A long time ago, in a universe far, far away, in a place called Hollywood, the movie studios and the actors who were under contract to them, celebrated their love of America, and enthusiastically indulged in overt displays of patriotism.

Posted in America, Holidays, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, July 4th | Also tagged Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Leila Hyams, Madge Evans, Rita Hay | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 5, 2015

Friday Photos: The Image is the Message

Tweet The other day I was talking with an aspiring screenwriter about great film actors. I mentioned Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, and Marilyn Monroe. The aspiring screenwriter, a young woman, told me that she’d heard of them, seen a lot of their photos on the […]

Posted in Abraham Avrech, Anna May Wong, Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture, Art, Family, Friday Fotos, Gene Tierney, Glamour, Hillary Clinton, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Fontaine, John Wayne, Judaism, Painting, Photography | Also tagged Agnes Pelton, Anna May Wong, Barcelona Haggadah, Carole Lombard, Carolyn Jones, Charlotte Salomon, Cornell Capa, David Ortins, Ed Ruscha, Gene Tierney, Hilma af Klint, Irene Dunne, Joan Fontaine, Livia Yarden, movie posters, Norma Jeane Baker, Paul Newman, Willem de Kooning | 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, Joan Blondell, Mark Rothko, Martin Puryear, Photography, Sandra Dee, Steve McQueen, The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer, Vermeer, Wayne Thiebaud | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 1, 2015

Friday Photos: UnBaltimore Edition

Tweet The Baltimore neighborhood that saw the worst of the violence was already filled with many burned-out buildings and vacant lots that had not been rebuilt since the 1968 riots that followed the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Source via my friend Neo-Neocon Nothing more to say but enjoy the photos.

Posted in Art, Baltimore Riots, Brigitte Bardot, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography | Also tagged Audrey Hepburn, Baltimore Orioles, Cal Ripken, Catherine Deneuve, Constance Bennett, Dorothy Gish, Elvis Presley, Emma Matzo, Francois Dorleac, Gustav Klimt, Hedy Lamarr, Joan Bennett, Joan Fontaine, John Wayne, Jr., Karen Singer Avrech, Lillian Gish, Lizabeth Scott, Micha Bar-Am, Olivia de Havilland, Pablo Picasso, Rabbi Philip Harris Singer, Rudolph Valentino | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 27, 2014

Thanksgiving 2014 — America: The Children of the Children of Israel

Posted in America, Barbara Kent, Holidays, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Israel, Marilyn Monroe, Thanksgiving | Also tagged Barbara Cloutman, Barbara Kent, Harold Lloyd, Lonesome, Thanksgiving in Hollywood, Vera Allen, Welcome Danger | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 21, 2014

Friday Photos — Scattered Edition

Tweet Usually, we publish photos organized around a central theme. Not today. We’re feeling a bit scattered. We’re spooked by the Emperor Obama, by what’s happening to this country. And of course by the Arab Muslim war against the Jews. The Iranians are edging closer to becoming a nuclear power. We are watching various national […]

Posted in Anna May Wong, Art, Brigitte Bardot, Hollywood in Stitches, Marilyn Monroe, Photography | Also tagged American Flag, Ariel Chaim, Broome Street, Edward Hopper, Karen Singer Avrech, New York Movie, Norma Jean, Shalom of Safed, Still Photography, Susan Hayward | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | March 6, 2014

Hollywood: I Drive Therefore I am Free

Tweet The automobile represents freedom. You climb into a car and go, go, go, whenever and wherever you want. The car is modern man’s path to liberty. Contrast cars with trains. Railroads are an expression of the collective. Individual identity is erased. You are at the mercy of a government-controlled system that turns citizens into […]

Posted in Friday Fotos, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Photography, Shirley Temple, Stars and Cars | Also tagged Baby LeRoy, Cars, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Lillian Harvey, Marlene Dietrich, Neil Hamilton, Pearl White, Rolls Royce, Seraphic Secret Baseball Cap, Shirley Temple | 22 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 14, 2014

Classic Hollywood Passport Photos

Tweet If you want to torture yourself, take a look at your passport. Chances are you look pretty awful. With flat lighting, a grim full frontal pose, and that look of bafflement, your photo probably looks like a mug shot. Are glamorous Hollywood stars just like us when they submit to the artless lens of […]

Posted in Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography | Also tagged Anna May Wong, Beauty, Glamour, Greta Garbo, Katherine Hepburn, Louise Brooks, Passport Photos of the Stars | 8 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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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." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 97MB)

Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: "The War Against Judaism on the University Campus." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 16MB)

Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: "The Mainstream Media's Betrayal of Israel." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 15MB)

Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: "What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 18MB)

Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: "Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 80MB)

Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: "Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?" Blog Post | Audio (mp3 64MB)

Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: "What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania." Blog Post | Audio (mp3 70MB)
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