Were Errol and the Photographer Both Being Framed?
— Tim
Archive for the ‘Behind the Scenes’ Category
WHOSE SIDE WAS TIME ON?
03
Dec
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
U.S.S. Sirocco?
30
Nov
November 28, 1940
Jimmy Starr
Errol Flynn has offered his boat, the Sirocco, to the United States Navy and promises to maintain the running expenses (about $50 per day.) A nice gesture which Uncle Sam probably will accept.
— Tim
Happy Tanksgiveen Fleen!
29
Nov
Thanksgiving, 1938
Errol Flynn’s Thanksgiving present from Lili Damita was a long distance call from Paris. It was collect and cost him $73.*
Here’s Lili hosting a cocktail party at the Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris, November 1938. Her guests include Ann Warner, Marlene Dietrich, Anderson Lawler, and Vera Matzouki.
* $73 in 1938 = $1348.11 in 2020
— Tim
Did They French Kiss Seventy Years Ago?
25
Nov
Oui Oui? Ou Non Non?
November 25, 1950
The Mail – Adelaide, South Australia
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November 14, 1950
The Argus – Melbourne, Victoria
* Danielle Dervin may not have been her true name. Her true name may have been Danielle Duvivier.
— Tim
Just the Facts
23
Nov
November 20, 1942
Minneapolis Star Journal
FBI Jails Boy in Extortion
13-Year-Old Asked $10,000 of Flynn
LOS ANGELES UPI
A $10,000 extortion plot against actor Errol Flynn was attributed to a 13-year-old San Bernardino schoolboy last night by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI said young Billy Seamster had sent a note to the actor, now awaiting trial on statutory charges, demanding the money on pain of death. The lad was arrested, said agent Richard B. Hood, in San Bernardino where he had directed the money to be sent. Hood said the note, received by Flynn Nov. 11 at his Beverly Hills home, read: “If you value your life and career, send a small package containing $10,000 in currency to the Otto Malt Shop. Your phone has been tapped. Don’t call police. You will be killed if you don’t comply.” It was signed “Jack Gilstrom.” The lad was released to his parents while the United States attorney’s office studies possible further action.
— Tim
Never Say Goodbye Meets Jive Bomber and Babalu
22
Nov
November 22, 1946
At the Strand in Manhattan
Jive Bomber
Led by Ray McKinley, famed drummer for Glenn Miller’s Army Air Force Band
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Babalu by Señor Babalu
A Sensational Vocal and Dance Performance!
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I Remember You
Lorraine and Ragnon
Lorraine’s husband and dance partner, Roy Ragnon, died in a plane crash during a WW II USO tour. Lorraine suffered very serious injuries from that same crash, and made an heroic comeback as a singer and comedienne, thus performing without her husband at the New York premier of Never Say Goodbye. This crash was depicted in the Susan Hayward film, With a Song in My Heart.
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— Tim
“By and By a Cloud Takes All Away”
14
Nov
Errol had big plans for Thomson Productions, which he hoped would allow him greater control over the growth and direction of his career. Tragically, however, despite the superb production of Uncertain Glory, “a knock on his door had already changed his entire life” …a knock on his door from Los Angeles legal authorities in the Fall of ’42. The die had been cast and Errol was never the same.
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November 14, 1946
— Tim
