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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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“Don’t you believe that opportunity knocks but once. It’s not so. If you keep your chin up and your ears pasted to the door, you’ll hear opportunity knocking again and again.”
—Linda Darnell (born Monetta Eloyse Darnell; 1923 – 1965)

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually agent, actor, director, producer, leading man. And you are a star if you sleep with them in that order. Crude but true.”
—Hedy Lamarr

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Marilyn was a very calculating girl. She was never late on our set, I’ll tell you that. She was trying to get me to go to bed with her while she was trying to get Howard [Hawks, the director] to do the same thing! We both knew it and—I can speak only for myself—it turned me off. Completely.”
—Cary Grant via An Affair to Remember by Maureen Donaldson and William Royce
Marilyn Monroe and Cary Grant in a scene from Monkey Business, 1952.
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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“I can't wait to be forgotten.” —Kay Francis
“I can’t wait to be forgotten.”
—Kay Francis

In the mid-1930’s Kay Francis was Warner Brothers’ biggest star and one of the highest paid people in the US.

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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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