An Immersive Glimpse at Old Havana
El documental ‘Errol Flynn’s Ghost: Hollywood in Havana’
Los cubanos siempre estuvieron enamorados de Hollywood. ¿Fueron correspondidos?
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— Tim
Author Archive
An Actor’s Dream Come True
07
Sep
September 7, 1938
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
Understand Errol Flynn’s new contract is an actor’s dream come true. Forty-five hundred dollars a week for 52 weeks a year. An then three months a year vacation out of every 12. All at one time.
The Irish star is red hot at the box office these days and everybody on the lot says that Dawn Patrol will be his best picture.
— Tim
Love Birds
06
Sep
September 7, 1938
Louelle O. Parsons
Los Angeles Times
Errol Flynn and Lili Damita, a couple of love birds all alone on their yacht at Catalina over the holiday, stopped a lot of “talk” by their devotion.
Their boat was a beautiful sight racing another yacht under full sail.
— Tim
The Adventures of Star Wars
05
Sep
‘What George Lucas Borrowed from The Adventures of Robin Hood to Make Star Wars’
Errol Flynn exudes exuberance that can’t be understated as the beating heart of the film.
Flynn makes The Adventures of Robin Hood a joy to watch.
Not only did the film get the legend of Robin Hood, of medieval heroes and villains, right, it got them so right that its distillation of the myth is still the gold standard almost a century later.
In 2003, Roger Ebert wrote:
The ideal hero must do good, defeat evil, have a good time, and win the girl. The Adventures of Robin Hood is like a textbook on how to get that right.
— Tim
“Errol Flynn Asked to Vacate Apartment”
04
Sep
September 3, 1943
Los Angeles Times
Errol Flynn Asked to Vacate Apartment
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That’s all I have! Only the who, some of the what, an approximation of when, but not any of the where, why, or how!
Could this be a Garden of Allah story?
I don’t have access at this location to LA Times archives. Anyone out there in Flynnland know?
— Tim
Labor Day in Mexico, 1937
02
Sep
Reine Davies
Hollywood Parade
Los Angeles Times
The film colony’s activities over the Labor Day weekend were as varied as are the talents of the film players who create your screen entertainment.
The holiday found Dolores Del Rio, Cedric Gibbons, Errol Flynn and Lili Damita cruising down to Ensenada, and other Hollywoodites at the Mexican Resort were Gene Reynolds, Jeanette MacDonald and George Mason.
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Baja was the place to be, especially if sailing, Ensenada, on the “Baja Riviera”. Though this article doesn’t mention it, Errol, Lili, Dolores and Cedric, would have certainly stayed at the magnificent La Playa Ensenada, built by Jack Dempsey (possibly in partnership with Al Capone),a haven for Hollywood celebrities for much of the Thirties, until Mexico outlawed gambling in 1938. Margarita Carmen Cansino used to dance there, before she blossomed into Rita Hayworth. Most all the heavyweights were there – Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Johnny Weissmuller, Myrna Loy, Lana Turner, William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies, Bing Crosby, among many others. Errol sailed there frequently, on Cheerio II, Sirocco, and Zaca. Flynn was fined once for wearing shorts in town… but that’s a story for another day.
Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard at the Hotel La Playa Ensenada, 1937
Dolores Del Rio and admiring friends at the Hotel La Playa Ensenada, 1930s
— Tim
Fringe Connections
02
Sep
This post addresses the fringe Flynn-connections in EFB Author Rider McDowell’s highly-regarded Off-Broadway play, Fringe Deaths
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PAYTON’S PLACE
Barbara Payton’s place in Errol’s world is summarized this way in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye by John O’Dowd:
“Few actresses in Tinseltown’s century-long history, with the possible exception of Frances Farmer, have undergone such extreme privations or suffered more extracted indignities than the beautiful, doomed Barbara Payton (1927-1967).”
“Inelegantly described by Howard Hughes associate Johnny Meyer as ‘Hollywood’s biggest trollop,’ Payton spent her early years in Minnesota and the Texan dustbowl of Odessa, before moving to Los Angeles at age 21 in search of stardom. Upon her arrival the aspiring actress promptly entered into a string of dalliances with all manner of showbiz types, including aging Lothario Errol Flynn, Bob Hope, Batman & Robin’s Robert Lowery and Gregory Peck, as well as assorted lowlifes, clingers-on and neophytes, though she ultimately rejected Hughes himself as ‘too strange.’ The bulk of her conquests were married, which did little to endear her to the womenfolk of Tinseltown, though as Payton’s former lover Steve Hayes puts it ‘she didn’t seem to care about anything except getting laid and having a good time.”
GEORGE REEVES
The Adventures of Superman star had at least one connection to The Adventures of Robin Hood star through Jerry Giesler, who petitioned for a reinvestigation of Reeves’ mysterious suicide as a possible homocide.
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JACK RUBY
Jacob Rubinstein’s connection to Errol was through one of Errol’s other famous legal eagles, Melvin Belli. “King of Torts” Belli represented Ruby after he was charged with killing Lee Harvey Oswald, essentially arguing that he (Ruby) was a patsy forced to murder another patsy.
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ALFALFA (STYMIE & SCOTTY)
Though Errol wasn’t a Little Rascal, he certainly was a Big Rascal. Here’s Alfalfa appearing to channel some of Errol’s charm and swag with the ladies.
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Here’s Errol with very popular child star Scotty Beckett, who Alfalfa replaced in Our Gang.
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Last but not least, Matthew “Stymie” Beard was in Captain Blood!
— Tim
CATEGORY 5
31
Aug
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As I sit in Florida, only a hundred yards or so from one of Errol’s favorite vacation homes and hideaways in Florida, I watch and wait for signs of Hurricane Dorian, which, no matter how historically notable it becomes, will never reach the league of Category 5 Flynn.
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—————————–> ERROL, THE (SUPER)HUMAN CYCLONE
— Tim
Houston, You Had a Party
29
Aug
“Bedlam in Diamonds – Seventy Years Ago'””
The Shamrock Hotel Grand Opening
Starring Errol Flynn, Ginger Rogers, Dorothy Lamour, Lana Turner, ~ a cast of approximately 170 more celebrities, and Fifty Thousand extras
On March 17, 1949, the iconic Shamrock Hotel opened with a huge shindig. Hollywood celebrities including Ginger Rogers and Errol Flynn came to town for the grand opening, and Houstonians paid $42 a head to go to the dinner. About 3,000 people showed up in total, a thousand more than organizers had expected. Rich and famous attendees, even Houston’s mayor, ended up dining on hallway floors. Although the Houston Chronicle described the night as “bedlam in diamonds,” it is still remembered as one of the biggest social events in Houston history.
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