November 6, 1942
Northern Star, Lismore, New South Wales
— Tim
Author Archive
B for Baron?
06
Nov
New York Daily News, November 6, 1942
By Frederick C. Othman
Los Angeles, Nov. 5 (U.R).
Peggy Larue Satterle, 16-year-old night club charmer, testified today that film actor Errol Flynn stopped at a physician’s office “to get some vitamin B pills, or something,” before he took her aboard his yacht for the cruise on which he is accused of raping her twice. She and Flynn were having dinner at Chasen’s, she said, before boarding the Sirocco, Flynn’s yacht, for a weekend cruise to Catalina Island. She said Flynn telephoned his doctor while they were dining and that on the way to the yacht harbor he stopped at the doctor’s office. “He got some vitamin B pills, or something,” she said, to the high amusement of the courtroom crowd.
— Tim
Remember, Remember – The Fifth of November
04
Nov
The Fifth of November, 2020
A Timely Interruption
“The film V for Vendetta is a wonderful mix of Phantom of the Opera, Errol Flynn, and the Count of Monte Cristo, combined with modern day reaction to government overreach.”
“V is a beautiful spectacle of a film, with heavy doses of Shakespeare and Errol Flynn…”
“V is an anti-hero character … with an endearing Errol Flynn like persona.”
“V is dashing and sympathetic, like an anarchist Errol Flynn.”
“The film does a phenomenal job of insinuating flippant Errol Flynn…”
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Can You Hear It?
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Errol-like Repartee and Fight Scene
— Tim
Fickle Errol Switches His Lady-Loves!
04
Nov
“Errol Flynn’s wives, fiances, wives, and assorted girlfriends – in screen adventures, as well as his well-heeled real life – have tended toward the dark, sultry, exotice type. But Flynn has just changed.”
September 2, 1950
TRUTH – Brisbane, Queensland
FICKLE ERROL FLYNN SWITCHES HIS LADY-LOVES! – “WILL HE WED PATRICE??”
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September 10, 1950
TRUTH – Sydney, New South Wales
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MADERA TRIBUNE – October 23, 1950
— Tim
Errol Full of Arrows
04
Nov
November 4, 1950
New York Times
“Rocky Mountain (1950) – Errol Flynn is an ever gallant fellow, but he seems to carry gallantry too far in Warner Brothers’ “Rocky Mountain,” which came to the Strand yesterday. So far, in fact, does he carry it in guiding a beautiful dame from a horde of ravaging Indians that he ends up as full of arrows as a war-bonnet is full of feathers. And that’s about as far as one can go. The only valid explanation for (Mr. Flynn’s conclusive gallantry is that he here represents a Confederate captain and therefore a Southern gentleman. And it seems that a standing rule at Warners is that a Southern gentleman will lay down his life for a lady, even though it means disobeying Robert E. Lee.”
The Errol Flynn Rory knew…
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— Tim
Mr. President!
04
Nov
Fun with FDR…
“The worst cadet since Ulysses S. Grant” is granted an audience with him in Boots…
Ann, Errol, and Ulysses, monkeying around in Silver River…
For the full version of Silver River’s “Mr. President” scene, see the below video beginning at ~ 0:39 – 1:01:
— Tim
The Ghost of Mulholland — The Specter of Errol — — Was it Real? Who was It?
31
Oct
Happy Errolween. October 31, 2020. Don’t be afraid of no ghosts.
The Ghost of Mulholland
Many if not most residents of and visitors to Mulholland Farm after Errol’s death claim that the home and estate was haunted. Some, like Ricky Nelson, believed it was Errol himself. Ricky’s daughter, Tracy, believed it was haunted by an angry woman. Others reported to have experienced a ghost of an identity unknown to them. Perhaps there were multiple ghosts? Or, perhaps there were none at all.
What do you believe?
The excellent video below provides a brief history of Mulholland Farm, asserting unequivocally, beginning at 6:57, that there was a ghost.
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The Specter of Errol?
Below the video is a link to a former EFB post, titled After Party Ghost List, addressing the possibilities of ghosts at Mulholland, on the Zaca, and elsewhere.
— Tim
October 30, 1600
30
Oct
“An unruly horse must be abated of his provender, that he may be the easier and better managed.”
Queen Elizabeth I, October 30, 1600
— Tim
DeMarrying Mr. MacEvoy
29
Oct
Prologue
~ “In 1940, Freddie MacEvoy married Beatrice Cartwright, an heiress to the Standard Oil fortune. He and Beatrice (twice his age) had lived together at the Badrutt Palace in St. Moritz for several winters, prior to their marriage. One year, McEvoy brought a much younger model to “care for him,” explaining to Cartwright that he must have a younger lover than her. The marriage lasted two years, and in the same year they were divorced, he married Irene Wrightsman, the 18-year-old daughter of the president of Standard Oil of Kansas.”
October 29, 1942
The Daily News (Perth, Australia)
Here’s the Wiley Mr. MacEvoy with Buster Wiles, three months later…
Postscript
Four years later…
August 29, 1946
The Daily News (New York, New York)
~ “During the Forties, Freddie often stayed in Mexico City with Countess Dorothy di Frasso, one of Freddie’s most generous patrons. Di Frasso spread his fame among her friends for his bedroom performances, which she said was worth all the money she gave him.
In 1945, McEvoy began a long-running affair with the wealthy heiress, Barbara Hutton. Hutton agreed with di Frasso concerning Freddie’s skills, considering him a superb lover, and felt that he understood women better than any man she had ever met. They later lived together at a fashionable ski chalet in Franconia, New Hampshire, which Hutton bought for McEvoy. They never married but remained friends throughout his life.
McEvoy eventually married French fashion model Claude Stephanie Filatre. On November 7, 1951 they were sailing on his 104-ton schooner, Kangaroo, near Cap Cantin off the coast of Morocco when a storm hit. The ship went down, but Freddie lashed his wife and maid to the mast, and then swam to shore seeking help. But he was unable to find any assistance and swam back out to the mast. He and Claude Stephanie then began swimming to shore, but she was unable to make it. He attempted to tow her to shore, but the waves pulled them to sea, they crashed against the rocks, and were not seen alive again. Their bodies were recovered the next day.
Earlier in ’51, Vincent Van Spartacus was making a play for Irene…
— Tim
