A Jimmy Starr Quiz
According to Hollywood writer Jimmy Starr – aka ‘Stage Door Jimmy’ – he personally witnessed that Errol particularly liked which category of women:
. Heiresses
. Actresses
. Waitresses
. Singers
. Orientals
. Tennis players
. Burlesque dancers
— Tim
June 9, 1936
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
Now, who may Olivia de Havilland mean by this?
In an interview yesterday the youthful Warners star that she ‘could fall in love’ with one of the leading men she has had in pictures.
She insisted it was all theoretical, but Hollywood immediately began to count the lads over the fingers.
They consist of 5. The first was Dick Powell in A Midsummer’s Night Dream. The rest have been James Cagney in The Irish in Us, Joe E. Brown in Alibi Ike, Errol Flynn in Captain Blood and The Charge of the Light Brigade, and Frederic March in Anthony Adverse.
Even if she is just theorizing, Hollywood would like to know which is Olivia’s ‘type.’
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Lysanda & Hermia
Danny & Lucille
Frank & Dolly
Peter & Arabella
Geoffrey & Elsa
Anthony & Angela
— Tim
I’d Like to Volunteer, Sir’
Just before parachuting into Nazi-occupied Europe, Fayette Richardson asked himself an existential question: “My God Most Powerful, what am I doing here?”
The thought had to be on the minds of myriad soldiers on June 6, 1944. It was D-Day, the launch of a long-awaited campaign by the U.S. and British armies to free the nations of Western Europe that Hitler had conquered.
Mounted from airfields and ports in Great Britain, it was the largest amphibious assault in history. Code-named Operation Overlord, it dramatically changed the course of World War II.
Seventy-five years later, the ranks have thinned of those who braved machine gun fire on French beaches that were marked on their maps with American names — Utah and Omaha. Richardson died in 2010. But fortunately for us and for future generations, he and other veterans kept diaries, wrote memoirs or recorded their recollections.
As a boy in Machias, N.Y., Richardson was fascinated by airplanes and war movies. At 17, he enlisted but didn’t qualify for pilot training. Instead, he was asked to join a parachute regiment’s Pathfinder team: those who jump first and guide those who follow. It was strictly voluntary, his commanding officer said.
“I think of Errol Flynn and how he and David Niven volunteered to do things in ‘Dawn Patrol,’ ” Richardson recalled. He told his commanding officer: “I’d like to volunteer, sir.”
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— Tim
June 4, 1938
Jimmy Starr
Evening Herald Express
Although not rated as singing stars, Errol Flynn, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Warren Baxter, Frank Morgan, will, if the occasion demands, tear off a cinematic tune or two.
— Tim
June 1, 1935
Film Daily
Ralph Wilk
A Little from Lots
Carl Laemmle Jr., David O. Selznick, Pandro Berman, Frederick Marsh, King Vidor, Ralph Bellamy, Sam Jaffee, Paul Lukas, Elliot Nugent, Warren Hymer, Solly Baisano, Gilbert Roland, Wells Root, Ainsworth Morgan, Mickey Rooney, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Gene Thackeray, Albert J. Cohen, Merritt Hurlburd, Edith Fitzgerald, Mrs. E.A. Dupont, Mrs. George Fitzmaurice, Mr. and Mrs. Karl Struss, Charles Farrell, Paul de Ricou, Larry Bachman, Ted von Eltz, Charles Butterworth, Martin Cornica, Errol Flynn, John Krimsky are among the players in the tenth annual motion picture tennis tournament. Frank X. Shields, noted international player, is in the men’s and mixed doubles, but not in singles.
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Tennis great Frank Shields, 1933
His granddaughter, Brooke Shields, famously filmed much of Blue Lagoon near Errol’s estate on the North Shore of Jamaica, 1980
— Tim
Errol Shows in Hollywood – Featuring Errol, Lili, Ed & Louella
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May 30, 1938
Ed Sullivan
Hollywood Citizens News
Errol Flynn gets in June 4.
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June 2, 1938
Louela O. Parsons
Los Angeles Examiner
Lili and Errol Flynn, no longer “among the missing,” planed on yesterday morning from Chicago.
— Tim
During legal proceedings against Errol, Lili Damita testified that she suffered an injury while serving her country during World War II. What was that alleged injury, and under what circumstances did Tiger Lil’ allegedly incur her alleged injury?
1. An STD spying for the French underground?
2. A head injury working for the Red Cross?
3. A sprained ankle performing for the USO?
4. A fall from a horse at Camp Pendleton?
5. A fist-fight with Bette Davis at the Hollywood Canteen?, or
6. A cut hand smashing a bottle of Veuve Clicquot over Errol’s skull?
— Tim
Queen Alexandra Hospital
Hobart, Tasmania – 1908
Errol was born in Battery Point at the Queen Alexandra Hospital on June 20, 1909.
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— Tim
A Cutting Edge Quiz
Who wrote on the image below that he “lost his finger”?
— Tim
May 23, 1938
Hollywood Citizen News
Taking their cue from the success of The Adventures of Robin Hood, Warner Bros. are digging in making preparations for a sequel to be ready for release next spring. Title is Sir Robin of Locksley,, an original by Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. MIller. Erich Korngold already is at work on the score. Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland are slated for the leads. Virtually all concerned in the scheduled follow-up contributed to The Adventures of Robin Hood.
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Surely Alan Hale would have been in it, too!
— Tim
