The Errol Flynn Blog

Who is the Legendary Designer Showing Errol Her Sketches?

And What is Her Most Famous Design??

— Tim

The personal and professional life of three-time Academy Award winning Australian costume designer Orry-Kelly is celebrated in Orry-Kelly: Dressing Hollywood, which runs from 18 August to 17 January. There are many items on display, including 10 of Orry-Kelly’s costumes. Film critic Luke Buckmaster examines a handful of these costumes, revisits the films they were made for and speaks to lead curator Ulanda Blair.

Director Gillian Armstrong’s new documentary Women He’s Undressed celebrates the life of Australian costume designer Orry-Kelly. The Kiama-born expat migrated to Hollywood in the early 1930s and came to be regarded as one of the greatest costume designers of all time – dresser of Bette Davis, Jane Fonda, Ingrid Bergman, Natalie Wood, Humphrey Bogart, Carey Grant and countless others – Errol Flynn as Don Juan!

— Maria

Wise Words from Stan Lee – On Being Young, Growing Old, and Needing Heroes …

www.bostonherald.com…

— Tim

Brian Twist contacted me awhile ago with the sad news of legendary Rick Dodd’s passing away recently, but the family wasn’t prepared to release the sad news until today. Claire, Rick’s daughter, emailed Brian, and asked that he tell a few people including Tom McNulty, Jack Marino, and his dear friend Trudy McVicker that he had passed peacefully on July 20, 2015. Rick Dodd is a name many of you first encountered within the pages of several books about Errol Flynn.

This was before the internet, and it’s instant informmation on almost any subject. In those days, you went to a library to look up subjects like Errol Flynn on card index files and hunted up reference materials like books and magazines and newspapers and held the source masterial in your hand. In the books about Flynn invariably a photo of Errol would be credited: Courtesy Rick Dodd Collection. That’s was my first encounter with his name. Nobody had a better collection of Flynn memorabilia in the world than Rick Dodd for a very, very long time.

Rick Dodd suffered from medical conditions for a long time in his later years. But his spirit was undimmed. His funeral will be August 10, 2015.

Tom McNulty allows me to quote part of an email we exchanged about his friend Rick Dodd:

I will miss our phone conversations and letters. Each Christmas since the mid 90s or so I have been sending him a gift – usually books I had privately made or had printed of Errol Flynn photos. And each Christmas he would raise a glass and salute his hero and all of Errol’s fans as well. Rick Dodd was the last of the true gentlemen. Let him rest easy and let us pray that if indeed such things are possible he is having a good laugh and sharing stories with Errol Flynn as he would wish. There goes a bright light but I am privileged to have called him my friend.

Thanks, Tom … We wish Rick’s family our deepest condolences on their loss, and we mourn the passing of a fine gentleman.

— David DeWitt

New image of Errol at the Hotel Del Pool, while “Robin Hood” was playing at the old Coronado Theater:

click on photo for a slight ripple effect.

— Tim

Errol Flynn – Early Adventures Through the Australian Press

ll clippings discovered through the National Library of Australia Trove archives. It’s a free site and highly recommended.

This looks like an interesting site -has anyone researched it before?

— Maria

Alan Hale earned a very distinguished place in film history as Errol’s great cinematic “sidekick”, most notably fighting along side his real-life buddy Flynn in swashbucklers, westerns, and other action movies. That known, in what film or films, if any, was Alan an adversary of Errol??*

*Excepting his initial opposition against Errol as Little John, of course.

— Tim

I was hoping twinarchers would post this first, but no such luck. So here it is, in his honor:

www.bbc.com…

— Tim

For those who would like another look at Rory in Tasmania please take a look. Love Genene and Steve.

Rory in Tasmania

— tassie devil