A Superb Tribute to The Adventures of Robin Hood: Featuring Errol Flynn and Ralph Dawson.
Was Ralph Dawson the greatest film editor of the 1930s? — Three academy awards in less than four years – Midsummer’s Night Dream, Anthony Adverse & The Adventures of Robin Hood. Mighty impressive.
— Tim
Due to the lack of a sound stage large enough to accommodate the full scale ships used in the production, the studio built a new sound stage that covered a specially constructed artificial lake-water tank. The ships were 165′ and 135′ and surrounded by water twelve-feet deep. This photo was taken at Warner Bros Studios sound stage in 1943 while filming ”This is the Army’, one can clearly see the set of the military chorus singing. Now, If you to the right side of the photo, you will see the the stern of the Albatross in skeletal form. This photo give you an idea on how large these sound stages are. A terrific behind the scenes photo.
— Kevin Wedman
What famous actress was reportedly first offered but turned down the role of Libbie Custer?
— Tim
Awarded Oscar for Best Costume Design, Color to Leah Rhodes, Travilla, and Marjorie Best. The costumes are especially beautiful in Technicolor. – Celebrating the Academy Awards. This film was made due to the popularity of Flynn’s recent reissues of ”CAPTAIN BLOOD” (1935) ”THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD” (1938) and ”THE SEA HAWK” (1940) in 1947.
— Kevin Wedman
Great article and photos of Deirdre, stand-in for Michael Douglas, in his first starring role,
“Hail Hero!”, published on one of the most significant days in the history of mankind.
— Tim
Dear fellow Flynn fans,
first of all I salute you to a New Errol Year with my waltzing waltzling ways: www.youtube.com…
At the 4 minute mark there´s is a terrific overview on Dürnstein Castle- remember?: www.theerrolflynnblog.com…
Unfortunately our Hollywood hero never made it down the blue Danube River to Vienna, hometown of his friend Doc I- Spy Erben and Will Tell loving lady Waltraut Haas.
Like in the old saying “Life is what happens, when you are busy making other plans”, he probably looked into making some movies:
The Niven Bush novel “The Actor” pitched to him by Henry Ginsberg
“The Ninth Man” written and scheduled also to be directed by Milton Krims
“Anthony Adverse”, alongside Fredric March and near to Lady Livvie
plus…drumrolls please: “The Greatest Love/Europa `51 with Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini
None of the above made the swashbuckler`s cut for various reasons.
Some saw the limelights and may well pop up on the blog in future “In should`ve been Flynn”- features.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
