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PM Sunday Edition — February 7, 1943 — “Flynn Acquitted”

07 Feb

— Tim

 

Errol Acquitted!

06 Feb

February 6, 1943

— Tim

 

Innocent Sweat and Unprintable Intimacies

05 Feb

— Tim

 

Brooke Shield’s Grandpa Says …. Errol was No. 1

05 Feb

January 5, 1952

— Tim

 

A Sword Runs Through Him

05 Feb

February 5, 1937

Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Examiner

A fight between Errol Flynn and Alan Hale in The Prince and the Pauper is covered in the script by one line: “He runs him through with his sword.” Counting long shots, close ups and medium shots, the duel took three days to film. At the conclusion, Hale, who has been ill, fainted and Flynn could scarcely lift his arm.

youtu.be/kSnVSDVSe7A…

— Tim

 

Did He Tie the Knot or Not?

04 Feb

February 4, 1945
Sunday Times, Perth, WA

— Tim

 

Errol Does The Big Apple

03 Feb

February 3, 1938

Louella O. Parsons
Los Angeles Examiner

The commotion on the Gold Diggers in Paris set at Warner’s yesterday was caused by the chorines teaching Errol Flynn The Big Apple.*

This film’s “chorines” can be seen, beginning at 2:00 in the film’s ‘Latin Quarter’ video below. But first The Big Apple!

History of The Big Apple

La Gran Manzana
youtu.be/vMINXFHWmhc…

Mickey Does The Big Apple
youtu.be/XzlFsm11F-w…

The Latin Quarter – See the film’s chorines at 2:00 >

— Tim

 

Elvis’s Mom (Not)

02 Feb

Did Joan Fontaine despise Olivia?

— Tim

 

An Inside Quiz

02 Feb

February 1

He was a close friend of Franklin and Eleanor.

His name is sometimes brought up in connection with Errol’s.

— Tim

 

Sea-Sick Over Sirocco

01 Feb

January 31,1939

Jimmy Fidler
San Francisco Chronicle

Errol Flynn’s not subject to sea-sickness, but when you mention that yacht of his, he shows some of the same symptoms.

December 28, 1938

To Libel Errol Flynn’s Yacht

New York Times

Errol Flynn, Irish motion picture actor, faces the loss of his $25,000 yacht Sirocco because it exceeds tonnage and length limitations imposed by the Federal government on alien-owned craft…

Sirocco, off Cape San Lucas, Baja California, during one of Errol’s fishing trips.

The Federal Grinch Who Stole Sirocco — (Almost)

— Tim