THIRD WEEK OF NOVEMBER, 1936
LOUELLA O. PARSONS
LOS ANGELES EXAMINER
Errol Flynn and Lili Damita talking things over at Lucey’s Cafe.
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Lucey’s Restaurant (aka Cafe?) was at 5444 Melrose Avenue, across the street from Paramount.
— Tim
THIRD WEEK OF NOVEMBER, 1936
LOUELLA O. PARSONS
LOS ANGELES EXAMINER
Errol Flynn and Lili Damita talking things over at Lucey’s Cafe.
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Lucey’s Restaurant (aka Cafe?) was at 5444 Melrose Avenue, across the street from Paramount.
— Tim
PHOTO FROM “NOVEMBER 23, 1946”
P.S. Rita turned 100 this year! Thank you, Rita, for all the beauty, talent, joy and love you brought the world!
— Tim
EVENING HERALD EXPRESS
HARRISON CARROLL
Errol Flynn’s Thanksgiving Present from Lili Damita was a long distance call from Paris. It was collect and cost $73.
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P. S. Though it wasn’t Lili, nor connected in any way to her Turkey Day call from 1938 Paree, here’s an interesting photo of an American woman using a mobile phone that very same year, 80 years ago! (Errol was probably very fortunate Tiger Lil didn’t have one!)
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— Tim
Third Week of November, 1936
LOS ANGELES EXAMINER
LOUELLA O. PARSONS
The Errol-Lili Damita marriage has gone on the rocks. For months rumors have been afloat in Hollywood that the matrimonial bark of Errol and Lili was having rough sailing, but to the outside world they denied there had been any serious troubles.
Yesterday, however, Errol was reported as having moved out of his Hollywood hilltop home and be staying with a writer friend, William Ullman, preparatory to moving into a fashionable apartment hotel. The final separation cane Saturday night when Lili followed her husband to a local cafe, where he was dining with a party of friends, and left shortly after in years.
Flynn’s much publicized trip to Borneo, the South Seas and England is definitely called off for the reason he will remain here and see the separation trouble through.
Neither Flynn nor Miss Damita would make any comment on their separation, but word of an impending divorce cane from a representative of the actor, who said that the court action would probably be filed by Miss Damita today or tomorrow.
— Tim
The Amazing Clover Club
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EVENING HERALD EXPRESS
by Jimmy Starr
Ahem! Bob Taylor was out-a-dancing with Ginger Rogers at the Clover Club!
And for one just separated from his wife, Errol Flynn seemed to be having wera JULLY times at the same spot…
— Tim
November 16, 1936
EVENING HERALD EXPRESS
Lili Damita, Errol Flynn Separated, Friends Report
Errol Flynn, star of Captain Blood and Charge of the Light Brigade , and his wife, glamorous Lili Damita of the files, have separated, friends said today.
Flynn is an outdoor man, while Lili likes to dance and attend the numerous affairs of the smart film set, said intimates of the couple, who explained that it was a clash of temperament and that no other persons were involved.
Flynn plans to leave for Europe in about a week and indications are that Miss Damita will then seek a divorce.
— Tim
EIGHTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
November 15, 1938
EVENING HERALD EXPRESS
by Harrison Carroll
Fans up at Modesto drove Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn to take refuge in their rooms. The stars, in location for Dodge City, tried to eat in the hotel coffee shop, but admirers pushed in a plate glass window in on them. A jagged hunk of glass just missed Flynn’s nose and landed spear-like in his steak.
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BTW, This incident likely occurred at one of the best hotels in downtown Modesto (Hotels Covell, Hughson, or Modesto), on one of the very streets (10th or 11th Street) where George Lucas later cruised cars as a teenager, as famously depicted in American Graffiti. … Though a relatively small, California Central Valley town, Modesto was nationally-renowned for it’s architecture.
— Tim
November 9, 1935
EVENING HERALD EXPRESS
THE YOUNG MAN ABOUT HOLLYWOOD
New Casting Experiment Puts Unknown Newcomers in Featured Lead Roles
At Warners, Capt. Blood, a pretentious film, is in work with an
‘unknown’cast. Errol Flynn has the lead. Ever hear of him?
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— Tim
November 3, 1938
Louella O. Parson
Los Angeles Examiner
“Errol Flynn has promised to be home November 11 from his Honolulu holiday.”
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November 4, 1938
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
Yesterday’s late editions carried a one-paragraph story from London that will lift eyebrows in Hollywood. It quoted Lili Damita as follows:
“I’ve retired from film work forever. I’m going to settle down and be a wife and a mother.”
Only one thing that would have tilted the eyebrows higher—if Errol Flynn had said: “I’m going to settle down and be a husband and father.”
— Tim