— Tim
Author Archive
A Surprise Quiz
07
Dec
The following image is from ?
Clue No. 2 – Posted 7:55 AM December 7
Clue No. 3 – Posted 12:34 PM December 7
Clue No. 4 – Posted 1:34 PM December 7
Who’s that with Greta? He’s involved.
Clues No. 5, 6 and 7 – 14:20 PM December 7
Clue No. 8 – 3:22 PM December 7
Clue No. 9 – 9 PM December 7
Clark Gable did the same exact show, at the same exact venue, almost exactly two years earlier. on December 10, 1939 (five days before the World Premier of Gone with the Wind in Georgia.)
Clues No. 10, 11 and 12 – 9:45 PM December 7
It was one of the days mentioned in Buster Wiles’ My Days with Errol Flynn:
— Tim
Errol Challenges the World!🏹🎯🏹
06
Dec
Did some African Chieftain finally take him up on the bet 20 years later, while he was shooting Roots?!
— Tim
In Praise of Errol Flynn — December 5, 2016
05
Dec
Relevant Audio runs from about 16 to 25 minute marks (mixed with intermittent discussions regarding John Wayne, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, and Peter O’Toole.)
— Tim
“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
Who?
30
Nov
In late November 1934 a leading Hollywood writer reported that the new Irish actor, Errol Flynn, somewhat resembled another Hollywood actor, only younger. Who was the actor they referred to?
— Tim
