It’s overboard with the Sea Scout, but a wonderful day in the neighborhood for Fred Rogers and John Glover…
March 23, 1938
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
…The two young men who will accompany Errol Flynn on his cruise are John Glover and Fred Rogers, both of New York.
— Tim
March 20, 1939
Louella O. Parsons
Los Angeles Examiner
If Errol Flynn fails to show up for his preview, Bob Taplinger is going to lose some money. Errol’s trusting P.A. is betting that he will be there, but knowing the Flynn temperament I wouldn’t want to do any wagering myself. Errol doesn’t have to be back in Hollywood until May, when he plays Essex to Bette Davis’ Elizabeth.
Another change in the schedule has put The Knight and the LadyThe Miracle. You’ll see Claude Rains as Bacon, poet laureate of the Elizabethan era. It will all be in Technicolor. Bette’s first. This Queen Elizabeth is based on Robert Sherwood’s “Elizabeth the Queen”.
— Tim
March 21, 1949
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
Errol Flynn now talks of writing a part for Greer Garson in his screen story, The Last Buccaneer, I don’t know how much importance to attach to thecwarm new friendship of Errol and Greer, but I keep hearing that her romance with Buddy Fogelson is cooling, and she and Flynn certainly do have a good time together.
Greer has a lively sense if humor. On the last day of The Forsythe Saga, she and Flynn were doing a scene in a buggy. Greer had Errol’s side of the buggy wired. When she pressed a button, he went up in the air like he had been stuck with a pin.
The cast and crew had their “end of the picture” party a Chinese restaurant in Culver City.* Greer presented Errol with a gag-gift – red wig, beard and eyebrows to wear in England so the fans won’t recognize from him. Among other things, Errol presented Greer with two big kisses right in front of everybody.
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Perhaps Errol used that re-beard. gag-gift on the set of Kim!
Mrs. Miniver had maximum talent…
* In days of old in the Golden State, pre-corona v., Californians could dine-in at Chinese restaurants in Culver City.
— Tim
March 19, 1936
Louella O. Parsons
Los Angeles Examiner
The blonde, harp-playing Anita Louise, who seems to have more admirers than any other girl of her age in Hollywood, is being given the biggest chance of her career by Warner Brothers. She will furnish the feminine touch in The Charge of the Light Brigade, which again brings us Errol Flynn, Warner’s newest star. One picture, Captain Blood, put Flynn in the success class.
— Tim
March 15, 1920 – Hobart, Tasmania
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No, not Errol Flynn! His Dad – Professor Flynn!
On March 15, 1920, Errol’s father, Theodore T. Flynn wrote a letter to the Academic Council of Tasmania University where he taught and was their star professor of biology. Despite his undisputed talents and preeminent achievements, the Academic Council viewed him as unconventional, difficult to control, even rebellious, and was investigating him for allegedly taking university property (home), neglecting his duties, and mismanaging his personal finances (i.e. owing taxes.) Sound familiar? Perhaps like Errol and Warner Brothers?
Rather than cower in his response to TU’s Academic Council, Professor Flynn emphatically protested that he was overworked, underpaid, not properly appreciated, and deserved a significant raise. Sound familiar? Like Father like Son?
Ultimately, Professor Flynn was censured by the University’s Council of Inquiry for “unprofessional behavior”. As a consequence, he decided to return to his alma mater on the mainland, Sydney University, where he earned his Ph.D. and went on to even greater heights and fame as a scientific researcher, writer, and instructor.
— Tim
March 16, 1949
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
After saying he wanted to stay away from Hollywood for a long time, Errol Flynn now talks of returning from Europe in a month.
This is more or less a shot in the dark, Buddy Fogelson had better watch out.
People predicted that Errol and Greer wouldn’t get on in The Forthsyte Saga. Just the contrary happened. They got along famously and Greer thinks Errol is tops.
I know that she was up to his house for a small dinner party Sunday.
Now, wouldn’t that combination be something? And, don’t forget, Errol is partial to redheads.
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Errol had a small window of time to romance gorgeous Greer Garson, who had just ended an odd marriage with the allegedly “morose” neysayer, Richard Ney (who was twelve years younger and looked a touch like Sean Flynn did in the early Sixties), followed by the very tame and wealthy Texas wildcatter, Buddy Fogelson.
So, here’s Greer, with Dick Neysayer, Errol Swashbuckler, and Buddy Wildcatter (sporting a Flynn-pencil-thin-like stache, but very thin on the Flynn panache):
— Tim
March 14, 1938
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
A Florida Sea Scout is tentatively selected as one of the boys to accompany Errol Flynn on his cruise.
— Tim
March 13, 1936
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
The most dramatic movie premier of 1936 took place not in Hollywood or in New York, but in Belfast Ireland when Captain Blood opened there the other day with Errol Flynn’s father and mother in attendance. They hadn’t seen him since 1932 and, suddenly, there he was on the screen, their turned into a movie star.
Reporting the incident, the Belfast papers also carried an interview with R. L. Simpson, who adventured with Flynn to New Guinea. He told a story about the actor that not even the studio knew.
Seems that a motion picture troupe hired Flynn to take them in a 20-ton schooner up the unexplored Sepik River, a stream infested with crocadiles and transversing jungles crawling with hostile natives. Sure enough, the troupe was ambushed and five of the police escorts were struck by poisoned arrows. Flynn and the crew were able to repel the attack with rifle fire and to get the troupe back to civilization.
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Superb video featuring multifarious primitive tribes and exotic cultures Flynn may have crossed paths with, if not crossed swords with, in Papua New Guinea – headhunters and cannibals included:
— Tim
March 12, 1938
Louella O. Parsons
Los Angeles Examiner
Lili Damita leaves for Palm Beach shortly to meet Errol Flynn and come back through the Canal with him.
And here’s a photo of Tiger Lil’ taking a “Palm Beach Cab” on what appears what might be the town’s world famous Worth Avenue. Probably taken after she divorced Fleen.
“The bicycle chair- sometimes called the “Afrimobile” or “Palm Beach Cab” was the only wheeled conveyance (other than a railroad or trolley car) allowed on Palm Beach at the turn of the century. The hotels employed drivers by the hundreds during the season.”
— Tim
March 9, 1938
Erskine Johnson
Behind the Makeup
Los Angeles Examiner
Errol Flynn’s ambition is to play Cyrano de Bergerac on the screen, but studio bosses frown on the idea of his appearing with a long, false nose.
— Tim
