Who is he? Who is he?
Here are some roundabout clues:
¤ He played drums for Beatles.
¤ Yes he did.
¤ Imagine that.
¤ Was in with a Flynn
¤ All Things Must Pass
¤ Played one of the coolest drum parts in rock hstory:
— Tim
Errol Flynn’s William Tell
“The Story of the Uncompleted 1953 CinemaScope Film”
— Tim
Errol gets a 20K pre-Christmas bonus for cancelling his “reconciliation trip” to Paris with Lili.
December 14, 1936
Sheila Graham
Dallas Morning News
Errol Flynn demanded – and received – a $20,000 bonus for cutting off his reconciliation trip with wife Lili Damita, returning to Hollywood in the kiddie story, Prince and the Pauper.
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Good-looking Hollywood gossip columnist Sheila Graham had a thing for the very virile Errol, a thing that made her legend of literature lover, F. Scott Fitzgerald, very jealous. At one point, the Mighty Flynn lived in a Garden of Allah bungalow next door to Fitzgerald’s. Sheila resided a block away, but often stayed with Fitzgerald at the Garden of Allah. She wrote the book on Hollywood’s most notorious upscale hotel of hedonism.
— Tim
“On Friday, January 13, 1939, a party was held on Stage 5 (now Stage 15) at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. The “Gay Lady Saloon” set from Warner’s Technicolor western spectacular Dodge City was still in use, having been dressed with additional props to celebrate that day’s Friday the 13th, and to poke fun at various other superstitions. Here is a selection of photos from that gathering, the original negatives of which were recently found deep in the WB archives.”
Henry O’Neill, Alan Hale, Michael Curtiz. Errol
Errol & Olivia
Errol, between Rosemary and Priscilla Lane
The Dodge City “Gay Lady Saloon” Bar
— Tim
December 11, 1937
WHAT THE PICTURE DID FOR ME
The Perfect Specimen: Errol Flynn, Joan Blondell — It is a natural. Plenty of clever stuff and Flynn and Blondell are good in the roles as the perfect man and the gal who knows what’s good for him — A.E. Goodman, Columbia Theatre, Columbia City, Ind. General Patronage.
— Tim
December 8, 1937
Los Angeles Examiner
RATHBONE AND FLYNN HURT IN ROBIN HOOD
This Twelfth century warfare is really tough.
So much mused Basil Rathbone, Errol Flynn and Sol Gorss yesterday as their names were added to the list of Robin Hood casualties.
Rathbone, who went through four years of World War without a scratch, came out of the Nottingham castle melee with a spear wound in the foot.
Flynn had a bump on his head, the result of a collision with a scabbard.
Gorss had a twisted ankle. He was stepped on by an extra after being “killed” by an arrow from Robin Hood’s bow.*
* The prolific Mr. Gorss:
— Tim
December 9, 1983
Thanks, Rory & Deirdre, for standing up so lovingly and heroically for your Father against the creepy, “grievous and disturbing” defamation of Charles Pigham, depicted below.
[Civ. No. 68301. Court of Appeals of California, Second Appellate District, Division One. December 9, 1983.]
RORY FLYNN et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CHARLES PIGHAM et al., Defendants and Respondents.
The Sick and Greed-Driven Mr. Pigham:
— Tim
December 6, 1937
Evening Herald Examiner
Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck and Mary Astor in These Three on Theater of the Air, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, tonight on KNX at 6 p.m.
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— Tim
December 4, 1937
Jimmy Starr
Evening Herald Examiner
No one knows what Errol Flynn will be giving Lili Damita because Errol doesn’t know yet. “And probably won’t know,” he says, “before December 24. I wanted to give her a ranch, but she doesn’t like ranches. What is there to give a woman if she doesn’t like ranches?”
— Tim
December 4, 1944
Sidney Skolsky
Hollywood Citizen News
Errol Flynn and Virginia Norcross are vooming.
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There is little available on the internet about Virginia Norcross, but there is this about her marriage to Ann Miller’s wealthy ex, Reese Milner. The above image is from the Sanctuary of Heritage at Forest Lawn in Glendale. She died in Beverly Hills on January 29, 1992, exactly 44-years to the day following the nationally-published divorce/marriage announcement below.
“On January 29, 1948”: HOLLYWOOD (U.R) Steel Works Heir Reese Milner, 32, divorced Wednesday by Movie Dancer Ann Miller, 24, will be married Friday to Mrs. Virginia Norcross, 30, of San Francisco, a friend “for years and years.” Milner and Mrs. Norcross took out a license Wednesday, three hours after Miss Miller’s final decree was entered at his request.”
— Tim