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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’ve never had a dull moment in my life. I’ve always wanted to try something new. When I was a child, I wouldn’t wear what the other kids had. I won’t now. I had the first pantie girdle, the first broadtail suit, the first sack dress — from Givenchy. I was even the first Gloria. Everybody named their children after me. I can always tell how old Glorias are.”
—Gloria Swanson
Photo by Charles Sheldon, 1925

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“Whenever you hear the beat of my feet, it is really the beat of my heart saying, Thank you and God bless you.”
—Eleanor Powell

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“You have to be hard-boiled to get through life whether you’re a shopgirl, a debutante or a movie star.”
—Jean Harlow

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Silent star Mary Pickford and the great screenwriter Frances Marion.

“I don’t know what the hell you’re doing here… Selling your soul, I suppose? All you writers have such a bloody romantic attitude. You think you’re too good for the movies. Don’t you believe it. The movies are too good for you. We don’t need any romantic nineteenth-century whores. We need technicians.”
A wise and experienced film editor to a first time screenwriter.
—Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood

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“I came over here to act, but it turned out all I had to do was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved and decorative.”
—Deborah Kerr

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