November 9, 1935
EVENING HERALD EXPRESS
THE YOUNG MAN ABOUT HOLLYWOOD
New Casting Experiment Puts Unknown Newcomers in Featured Lead Roles
At Warners, Capt. Blood, a pretentious film, is in work with an
‘unknown’cast. Errol Flynn has the lead. Ever hear of him?
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— Tim
You may have noticed the NOT SECURE warning that appears in Chrome browsers in the address line of our blog? That only means that the security certificate of the site is slightly less secure (http:// … versus https:// …) and Chrome is letting us know this basically useless fact. I am told by our host PressHarbor (the wonderful John Kagan) that our blog will be moved up the list to transfer to our new home, and a free Security Certificate will be provided to us that will eliminate the Not Secure warning …
Thanks, John!
— David DeWitt
November 8, 1935
HOLLYWOOD CITIZEN NEWS
CINEMANIA
By Edward Martin
“Around the Village:
Lili Damita and Errol Flynn taking in the show at Warner Brothers Hollywood.”
Movie unknown, but, as depicted below, Case of the Curious Bride played there April of 1935, and John Barrymore’s Don Juan almost a decade earlier.
A once-grand movie palace. It’s glamor has only slightly faded.”
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— Tim
Who is the greatest action-adventure movie star of all time?
What Hollywood superstar from the 1930s and 1940s who has never been honored by the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences, most deserves to be?
— Tim
FANS DUMBSTRUCK OVER FILMSTRUCK
“RIP FilmStruck, one of classic cinema’s last refuges in the streaming era”
“The beloved destination for foreign films, art-house discoveries, and movies from Hollywood’s Golden Age is shutting down.”
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“On the news that FilmStruck has been struck down, fans — including Hollywood directors Barry Jenkins, Guillermo del Toro and Rian Johnson — vented their shock, sadness and anger on social media.”
“FilmStruck will cease operations on Nov. 29 after two years in operation, Turner and Warner Bros. Digital Networks announced Friday.”
“The service hosted hundreds of classic, arthouse, indie and foreign films.”
“On Friday, the FilmStruck site posted this message: “We regret to inform you that FilmStruck will be shutting down. Our last day of service will be November 29, 2018, and we are currently no longer enrolling new subscribers. All current FilmStruck subscribers will receive an email with details about your account and the refund process as applicable.”
“The question that now remains hovering in the air is where are the film connoisseurs and the film fans of the future going to encounter the classics of yester-year, the films which still routinely inspire today’s directors.”
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— Tim
November 3, 1938
Louella O. Parson
Los Angeles Examiner
“Errol Flynn has promised to be home November 11 from his Honolulu holiday.”
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November 4, 1938
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
Yesterday’s late editions carried a one-paragraph story from London that will lift eyebrows in Hollywood. It quoted Lili Damita as follows:
“I’ve retired from film work forever. I’m going to settle down and be a wife and a mother.”
Only one thing that would have tilted the eyebrows higher—if Errol Flynn had said: “I’m going to settle down and be a husband and father.”
— Tim
Mail Bag! Thanks to Jan van der Vliet …
The Chicago Review, 2006
— David DeWitt
Mail Bag to The Errol Flynn Blog from our hosting outfit at PressHarbor:
“Thank you for your patience, at last we are ready to begin migrations of all accounts to our new hosting platform.
“Our new platform will continue to be based on Plesk, so all of your existing accounts and passwords will migrate as-is, but this newer version of Plesk and the underlying hardware, software, and infrastructure updates will offer:
– increased security
– improved and guaranteed performance
– free SSL certificate via Let’s Encrypt
– more current versions of PHP
There’s more to come, especially for those of you with multiple sites, but the first phase will be to migrate all sites to the new platform by the end of November.”
The migrations are set to begin November 3, until the end of the month, and we do not yet know what dates our blog will move but we will get that information before it actually happens, I think. It will involve changing our dns server information for our domain name so if, one day, you cannot reach the blog, this will be why. I am told content creation might be interfered with during the the actual move, so let’s all be aware of the the situation and I will keep you as updated as possible …
— David DeWitt
