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

Myrna Loy

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“Becoming a sex symbol overnight shocked me. I didn’t know how to handle it and I kept all the unopened fan mail in the boot of my car because I didn’t know how to respond and thought it was rude to throw it away. Then my mother became my secretary and replied to the really inappropriate ones saying: ‘My daughter’s far too old for you. Go take a cold shower!’”
Diana Rigg, 1938 – 2020 RIP

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“America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German — German in my soul.”
—Marlene Dietrich

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“The first day of making a film I feel, ‘Why did I ever get mixed up in this profession? I have no talent. This time, they’ll find out.’”
— Olivia de Havilland

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“Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn’t started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out of my purse and shot him, because I am the only person who would not have been searched.” ~ Greta Garbo, photographed by Edward Steichen, 1929

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“It’s nice to be included in people’s fantasies, but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.”
—Marilyn Monroe

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