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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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“I did my best. God did the rest.”
—Hattie McDaniel

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.”
—Gary Cooper

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“To make a real war movie would be to occasionally fire at the audience from behind the screen during a battle scene. But word-of-mouth from casualties wouldn’t help the film to sell tickets. And again, such reaching for reality is against the law. Anyone seeing the movie will survive.”
—Sam Fuller reassures moviegoers they will not go home with injuries if they go see his latest war movie.

 

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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: Robert & Karen Abroad

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“I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.” —Hedy Lamarr
“I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.”
—Hedy Lamarr

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