June of ’89
Jimmy Starr – Los Angeles Evening Herald Express
June 5, 1939
Errol Flynn’s finally got a private pilot’s licence and flew to te Elizabeth and Essex location at the Warner Ranch in his own plane.
Erskine Johnson – Los Angeles Evening Herald Express
June 8, 1938
BEHIND THE MAKEUP
Errol Flynn’s Schnauzer chasing Bette Davis’ Scotty around the Warner Studio Cafe’ …
— Tim
For what film was Errol tested that, if he had landed the role, would have been his first Hollywood starring role?
– He was considered for it before he was chosen for Captain Blood.
– It was based on a famous book.
– Though the story was a disaster, the movie was a success.
– Though it was fictional, it was based on real events.
– It would have been his first role with Alan Hale.
– It would have been his first role with Basil Rathbone.
– There were swords in the movie, but Errol would have never dueled against Basil with any of them.
– Russell Crowe played a somewhat similar role once.
– Kirk Douglas played a somewhat similar role once.
– Errol would have got religion in his role.
– Years later, he visited the location that was the setting of the film.
— Tim
Mayor David Wenham – from 300, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
“Last month the hard working Wenham played Christian Travers, the fictional mayor of Townsville in director Russell Mulcahy’s Errol Flynn biopic In Like Flynn, shot on the Gold Coast.
Produced by James M. Vernon and Corey Large, the film follows the early life of the Tasmanian-born Flynn (Red Dog: True Blue’s Thomas Cocquerel) as he and his friends set sail from Sydney to New Guinea in search of gold. The mayor is the local bookmaker and brothel owner. Other cast members include Callan Mulvey, Isabel Lucas, Corey Large, William Moseley and Clive Standen.
Wenham relished the chance to work with Mulcahy, describing him as a great character and an absolute hoot.”
— Tim
An EFB Four Score Anniversary News Report: June 3, 1937
Harrison Carroll – Los Angeles Evening Herald Express
It took plenty of talk for Warner Bros to persuade Errol Flynn to remove a good luck chain from his neck for prize fight scenes in The Perfect Specimen. The charm was made from the first nugget taken out of the New Guinea gold fields. It was given to Flynn eight years ago by a priest. The actor takes it off for the first time for the picture.
— Tim
Louella O. Parsons – Los Angeles Examiner
June 1, 1936
One of the directorial plums of the year has fallen right
into the lap of Frank Borzage. He will direct The Green Light
by Lloyd C. Douglas, author of The Magnificent Obsession,
which was one of last year’s big pictures. The production date
is July 6, so, of course, Warner Brothers won’t wait for
Leslie Howard, who remains in England for months and months.
But my guess is that Errol Flynn,who is being built bigger
and bigger by Warners, will have the lead.
Jimmy Starr – Los Angeles Evening Herald Express
June 2, 1936
…Tremendously enthusiastic over the forthcoming
production of Green Light, the Lloyd C. Douglas novel,
Cosmopolitan Productions, releasing through Warner Brothers,
has decided to again team those new raves, Olivia De Havilland
and Errol Flynn, under the direction of Frank Borzage. This
will be Errol’s first chance to appear in modern dress since
his sensational rise to cinematic fame. He will star in his
own story, The White Rajah, following this picture.
They never made it to the Silver Screen with Green Light, but it was blue skies on radio airwaves with this:
“From Hollywood California, the Lux Radio Theater Presents Errol Flynn and Olivia DeHavilland in Green Light” oldhollywoodincolor.com…
— Tim
More from the never-ending adventures of Errol Flynn …
Harrison Carroll – Los Angeles Evening Herald Express
June 2, 1936
Errol Flynn will take a six months’ jaguar hunting trip
to British Guiana when The Charge of the Light Brigade
is finished. He plans to bring back boa constrictors for
Hollywood pals.
— Tim
