With Adventures of Don Juan wrapped up, Errol does a quick portrait shoot during the first week of the month and then he is off and running. By the 22nd of the month he is in Jamaica for more adventuring.
…to be continued.
Enjoy!
— Topper
Archive for 2024
Storming Fair Weather
14
Sep
Dear Flynnstones,
in an appendix to www.theerrolflynnblog.com…
here is a hilarious account about what Ol‘Errol is all about: www.caymancompass.com…
Once a pirate, always a pirate.
Enjoyoyoy,
— shangheinz
Secret Sirvice
08
Sep
Dear Flynnstones,
meet Sir Anthony Jenkinson, descendent of the 2nd Lord Liverpool, when he visited Errol at Elstree Studios in 1952.
They got acquainted probably via mutual friend David Niven in Hollywood of 1938.
The Etonite worked as wartime correspondent during WWII and was assigned by his school friend Commander Ian Fleming to the Carribean on a secret mission to document the activities of Nazi submarines in the area.
He was accompanied on this snoop cruise by none other than Hemingway‘s brother Leicester. Big Brother wrote in ernest about their adventures in the book (not the song!) “Islands in the Stream“.
Sir Alex was the first journalist to interview Chairman Mao and may have given Flynn the idea to do so likewise with Fidel Castro.
Jenkinson set up shop, a shipyard to build schooners, in Jamaica, where the seafarer and the swashbuckler again often met.
Ahoy,
— shangheinz
Errol Flynn January, 1941 to mid-March!
06
Sep
Errol enjoys his Hawaiian vacation until mid-February and then is back in Los Angeles with wife Tiger-Lil.
Enjoy
— Topper
Diva Bomber
03
Sep
Dear Flynnstones,
Tiger Lil gets ready for another air raid at North Linden Drive, where champagne bottles flew dangerously narrow and haymakers were hurled at chins of porcelain.
Heads up,
— shangheinz
The Scotland Yard Mystery (1934)
29
Aug
Our man Flynn! Footage new and unseen to many I would imagine.
The credit for unearthing this must go firstly to Rick Dodd, then to John Montgomery, John Clive and finally John Skinner.
The Scotland Yard Mystery (1934)
best wishes
Brian
— themainflynnman
The Shot Seen Around The World
29
Aug
Dear Flynnstones,
here you see young paperazzo Gianni explaining Errol how he took the shot of a lifetime.
And here you can watch it from every angle:
Click,
— shangheinz
Errol Flynn in 1943 from about Mid-April to July 3rd
28
Aug
With the rape trial ‘acquittal’ still fresh in the press, Errol is back to work on his next picture. And there is never a dull moment in this time period.
There is also a large photo shoot in mid-May which we will present later.
Enjoy!
— Topper
The Barondess of Mulholland
28
Aug
Dear Flynnstones,
Barbara Barondess was a colorful caracter. Born in NY on the 4th of July in 1907 she left the US for her parents` homeland Russia, only to take a bullet for her father during the October Revolution. She came back to the States and became an actress in Hollywood. Winning a Miss New York pageant along the way, paved her path. She filmed with Greta Garbo, whom she would term a polite, if dull, friend (“She chose to be a recluse, basically because she had nothing to say.”). One of her better known movies was “8 girls in a boat”- Flynn was not in, he surely would have loved to, but it preceded his arrival at the Traumfabrik by two years. Barondess met Errol, when she persued a second career as an interior designer and in that capacity worked for him.
Her third job was a dream come true, since she alwas aspired to be a writer, ever since she went to dinner with literature great Eugene O`Neill. In 1990 she released her memoires “One Life is not enough. Surviving the Russian Revolution and Capture the American Dream of Broadway and Hollywood”. Apparently one book seemed not enough and she had two more additions planned with anecdotes about Harlow, Gable and Garbo. Having been the love interest, or shall we say muse, of producer Paul Bern, it would have been interesting to read, if she also had an apparition of a mischievous dwarf in Bern`s mansion like Sharon Tate had when she lived there with Jay Sebring. If it was Paul or the Pole Tate saw in a lucid dream, who threatened her life years before her gruesome murder. And if Barbara B. would have approved of Sebring`s choice of pitch black as a color for his bedroom. If Errol Flynn`s pool had been of the same color at some time. If… Nuff!
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
3 Ringling Circus
26
Aug
Dear Flynnstones,
here is a rare pic of Errol a mere two weeks before his untimely death visiting Ringling Bros. Circus.
The team of three shows him with his past protegé and fiancé in spe Beverly and her friend Linda.
Where Flynn put his buzzsaw straw hat, if he threw into the ring or lent it to Maurice Chevalier remains an open investigation.
Make ‘em laugh,
— shangheinz
