The New Catalina Museum Opening in June!
Avalon is an Especially Fun & Wondrous Place for Fans of Flynn.
Our Last Visit on the Blog:
— Tim
Archive for May, 2016
Stealing a Kiss & a Badge at the Ballyhoo Ball
06
May
Errol Arrested for Being Errol at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, 1957
Pacific Palisades Country Club<
The infamous Lincoln Heights Jail, featured in many films and music videos since Errol’s involuntary visit, including in LA Confidential, where, shown below, they depicted the “Bloody Christmas” riot of 1952.
— Tim
Olivia de Havilland Film Festival
04
May
Celebrating Olivia’s 100th Year (Congratulations Livvie!)
At the Historic Stanford Theater, Palo Alto, California
ERROLIVIA FILMS & DATES
The Adventure of Robin Hood: May 6-8
Captain Blood: May 13-15
Charge of the Light Brigade: May 20-22
They Died with Their Boots On: June 3-5
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex: June 10-12
Four’s a Crowd: June 17-19
— Tim
Roberto Devereux
03
May
I saw a “live” Metropolits Opera of Roberto Devereaux in a Cinemax theater recently (Donizetti’s tragic opera, not the actual English Earl.) Fascinating, for me mostly to see how the opera differed from Elizabeth and Essex. Viewing it really confirms how uniquely great Errol was. Essex in this production pales in comparison to Flynn. (Perhaps a slap from Bette D. would have put some more zest in his performance.
The Met’s ‘Roberto Devereux’ Is Dreary When It’s Not Plain Vulgar
— Tim
Errol Flynn receives honorable mention from Robert Mitchum’s daughter.
02
May
Errol Flynn given credit in new book for speaking out against animal abuse in movies.
In an interview hosted by Dave Davies (who was filling in for Terry Gross) on the radio program “Fresh Air” broadcast on National Public Radio on March 21st, 2016…
Patrina Day Mitchum, daughter of actor Robert Mitchum, and coauthor of the book Hollywood Hoofbeats gives credit to Errol Flynn “after he went public with his disillusionment from the way horses were treated in Charge of the Light Brigade” that resulted in the American Humane Society’s oversight of the treatment of animals in films. She went on to say, “So we have Mr. Flynn to thank for that wonderful advocacy for equine actors.”
The full text of the inteview and the author’s other remarks about Errol Flynn can be found at:
www.npr.org…
For those interested in the book:
Hollywood Hoofbeats: The Fascinating Story of Horses in Movies and Television by Petrine Day Mitchum and Audrey Pavia
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: i5 Press (November 11, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1620081334
ISBN-13: 978-1620081334
— Jerry Canaday
The Most Doomed Movie in Hollywood History?
02
May
Well, at least Errol got a Chinese Dinner and Alaskan Gold Mine out of it – and almost a menage a trois up on Lookout Mountain with Tiger Lil’ and the Queen of the Headhunters (or is that redundant?)
See @ 1:55 onward
— Tim
Mail Bag! Errol Reichow: Don’t Hesitate to Live Fully!
01
May
The Mailbag brings us a great photo and story from Errol Reichow:
Greetings Mr. DeWitt,
Another contribution to your blog as I sift through the memories of my father. Flynn once quoted “We fritter our lives away in endless details but I plan to live it” and he did. My dad once said to me that Flynn had just come back from visiting a doctor, he had various ailments later in life, and the doctor said if you quit drinking you could have a few more years to which Errol said “I take the drinking and another good 6 months”. My father also mentioned that Flynn kind of burned out on live and said to him “I’ve seen everything twice so what does it matter”. We all have our highs and lows so with it goes our attitudes but better to test the ends of the spectrum then ride the middle of the fence because for many that just doesn’t get it done.
One last note, this past Friday I visited an old family friend (Gloria Zomar) and as we talked she had an interesting story. She meet Flynn, through my father, down at the Garden of Allah and Errol just had a chiropractor work on his back as my mom, dad, and Gloria waited in the other room and they could hear the groans as Errol got adjusted. Then Errol came out in a terry cloth rope and engaged in conversation and proceeded to ask Gloria out for a date. Gloria accepted and was very nervous and she let Flynn drive her old Pink Cadillac to some spread in the Valley for a party where Errol spent most of the time talking to a producer about an upcoming film. Gloria was so nervous she didn’t say two words the whole evening and when they went home Flynn invited her in for a tottie and she said no, guess he had a reputation. My dad ask Errol the next day how it went and Errol said she doesn’t like me as she didn’t talk all evening. The fact is she was so nervous she didn’t know what to do or how to act. So, I gather the moral of the story is speak up and live a little because if you don’t do it now there may never be a next time.
This picture is from the old Frascati restaurant that was on the Northwest corner of Crescent Heights and Sunset Bl, across the street from the Garden of Allah. In it is Errol ( back of head), Mickey Rooney, Nora Eddington, Beverly Aadland, and Otto Reichow (my father) – I do not know the folks in the upper right hand corner.
Hope the shot is worthy of a post on your site and if so send me the link or save it for another day but then again better to live for today then wait for tomorrow.
Thanks’ Errol!
— David DeWitt
