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 September, 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
