The Errol Flynn Blog

Happy Birthday, Errol!

June 20

— David DeWitt

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Cheers
Pete

— David DeWitt

I was in touch with Rory Flynn recently, and she has expressed an interest in being more active on the blog (she has been a member for some time) but of course also has a very busy life! She is interested in using our collective skills as Flynn Detectives to discover any footage of herself with her father that may be in someone’s collection, or available in an archive somewhere. She is interested in any newsreels featuring her father, too. She has many private photos in her collection but there was an estate sale of some kind back in the day and she mentions that actor Roddy McDowell somehow was able to purchase film stock and photos and kept them under lock and key. I was able to send her some home movie footage, and outtakes from Cruise of the Zaca but I know that there is a lot more out there, and if anyone can find it – it is us!

She recalls going to a premier at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre with her father but doesn’t know if that is available anywhere. I believe I have seen this clip! Just where? We all do a lot of researching, and it can become a jumble of sites and disks with who knows what on them! So, are there any hardy detectives here who would like to contribute some time to this?

— David DeWitt

My friends – I was checking out the link posted by someone to the blog in response to an article posted by John Teitlov regarding Flynn’s autopsy records.  I check links to make sure they are not spam if the system has not flagged it. This comment got through which usually means the commenter has had other comments approved but since John’s articles are number one in popularity for spammers I followed the link –

We have discussed this on the blog and have agreed to keep any photo of Errol dead off these pages; as I clicked on this commentator’s link a photo began to appear and there was Errol laying dead on a gurney! I quickly stopped the download but the damage is done as far as I am concerned. I have carefully avoided photos like this for DECADES not wanting to see Flynn in this state, ever in my life… I would think that someone contemplating such a link would have thought about the feelings of the readers of this blog before posting something like this. John gave his email address to be used to contact him in his post but the commenter decided to leave the link for ANYBODY to view which was rather thoughtless!

I have deleted the comment, of course.

I will put a notice on the FAQ’s page about not posting such photos if it will help!

I hope none of you saw this link before I did – I know that viewing a photo like this is a personal choice and many researchers feel it is just part of their research and they can handle it on that basis. For me, it is not something I ever wanted to see preferring to keep his image alive in my mind and so I am very disappointed by this.

— David DeWitt

I  have been in touch with our wonderful blog member Tina Nyary who tells me she is the caregiver for a terminally ill family member and all of her time is now taken up with this – and that she is rarely on the computer. She says it is  all right for me to mention this on the blog so that nobody thinks she has abandoned us – she will return when it is appropriate to do so. My heart goes out to her and her family!

— David DeWitt