Were Errol and the Photographer Both Being Framed?
— Tim
Archive for December, 2020
WHOSE SIDE WAS TIME ON?
03
Dec
“He Was Born For This” — December 2, 1859
02
Dec
Errol’s Cinematic Connection to One of the Most Consequential Events in American History – The Hanging of John Brown on December 2, 1959 – Which Resulted in the Election of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and All the Race-Related Controversies and Conflicts that have Ensued in the United States, to This Very Day.
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— Tim
Behold Errol Minus Hokum
02
Dec
December 1, 1934
Behold Them Minus Hokum
by Peter Pry
Errol Flynn, newly arrived Irish actor, will have to call out the police reserves for protection when the local gals discover he’s independently wealthy and doesn’t need to act for a living. Flynn has lots of that appeal too,, and is a husky specimen. He hewed a fortune out of a gold mine in New Guinea, he represented Ireland as a boxer in the Olympic Games in 1928, he has braved cannibals, is 25 and has never been married! He has only been acting for two years. And he refused the role of Oberon in A Midsummer’s Night Dream because he didn’t want to start his career playing the king of the fairies.
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Errol, goldmining:
— Tim
Columbus Discovers Errol and Sends Him to America
01
Dec
November 30, 1934
Jimmy Starr
Evening Herald Examiner
Irving Asher, Warners’ London laddie in charge of the foreign studio, played “Columbus” and discovered a handsome Irish chap by the name of Errol Flynn. The young newcomer proved himself in Murder in Monte Carlo. Asher figured Flynn had a better chance in Hollywood, and sent him to Jack Warner, who took a quick look at the English-made movie, snapped a contract under Flynn’s nose and gave him one of the featured leads with Kay Francis in A Present from Margate, her next film following the current Living on Velvet. Mr. Flynn, it seems has made quite an impression — and good leading men are scarce, you know.
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Here’s Errol in 1934:
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Irving Asher, an American, actually landed two great stars that year – the other being the lovely Laura La Plante ~ the Doris Day of her day ~ as his wife!
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It was a big year for Irving! He also laid this stone:
— Tim
