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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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“When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.”
— Hayley Mills (b. 1946 – )

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I want to do the best that I can do in that moment, when the camera starts, until it stops.’
—Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; 1926 – 1962)

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.” —Elizabeth Taylor; Photo by Richard Avedon for LOOK magazine, 1956

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Friday Photos: There Ought To Be a Law

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“There ought to be a law against any man who doesn't want to marry Myrna Loy.” —Jimmy Stewart
“There ought to be a law against any man who doesn’t want to marry Myrna Loy.”
—Jimmy Stewart

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Silent Star Esther Ralston: Why Do All My Husbands Want to Kill Me? Part I

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Esther Ralston, at the height of her Hollywood stardom in the 1920's.
Esther Ralston, at the height of her Hollywood stardom in the 1920’s.

They called her, the American Venus.

She lived in a Hollywood mansion with a staff of servants. Her chauffeur drove a limited edition limousine. But she ended her days in a trailer park in Ventura, California.

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