I know it’s late notice, but Lili Damita is on Turner Classic Movies in Goldie Gets Along today (Friday, Sept. 11) at 1:00 p.m. Eastern. I have never actually seen one of her films so am looking forward to it.
— Paula
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(Out of Africa) A Star is Born
26
Aug
August 25, 1935
Los Angeles Times
By Muriel Babcock
Adventure again is holding the stage. The cutthroats and brigands and brave seamen of Raphael Sabatini’s swashbuckling tale of the Seventeenth Century, Captain Blood, are coming to life on the Warner Brothers set in Burbank, California, in this year, 1935.
One of the most interesting sets I have seen in visits to many studios, is the great, sprawling layout if a Jamaican slave plantation of the Captain BloodCaptain Blood, as you know, is the story which gives Errol Flynn, the Irish adventurer, his big chance in pictures. Chatting with him idly between scenes, I discovered that while his adventures in Captain Blood are thrilling, he has had almost as exciting ones in his own life before he came to America. He has a terrific scar on his left leg from an arrow shot at him by African natives.
LIFE’S BIGGEST SCARE
He was lost in the African jungles, and for two days, while hunted by the incessant tom-tom of drums, he hid from the natives and tried to make his way to safety. “Never in my life have I been so frightened” he told me.
But more about these interesting sets of Captain Blood. On still another stage are two huge replicas of galleons of that day, on of the Arabella, a Spanish ship, the other the Diligent, a French pirates’ boat. They are a beautiful sight to come upon, and it takes you a moment to realize they are only half ships that move back and forth on pulleys across the stage against the painted canvas sea background, instead of sailing the Caribbean as they did in Captain Blood. I climbed up on one, and I assure you it gives you a thrilling feeling.
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The Jamaican Plantation*
*Imagery from the superb “Blonde at the Film” review of “Captain Blood 1935”
— Tim
We Welcome New Author Barb Leff!
03
Aug
Good to have you with us, Barb, as always. Looking forward to more great comments and posts!
— David DeWitt
“An Unscrupulous Writer”
12
Jul
On July 11, 1981, UPI reported that Rory and Deirdre sued low-life Chuck Higham, correctly describing him as:
“An unscrupulous writer with gross imagination given to extravagant charges, deceit and defamation of deceased persons as his modus operandi of authorship.”
“A skilled and practiced character assassin who used the law preventing libel suits of relatives of a deceased person to defame the family without any threat of legal action.”
Our Man Flynn by Tony Thomas
Tony Thomas cites another outrageously unscrupulous writer and notorious fraud in his “Our Man Flynn” article -Falseman Capote.
Brava Rory & Deirdre!!
— Tim
Cheers!
22
Jun
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Cheers to All Who Toasted Errol on his 111th!!!
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I am not able to name all those who deserve praise for their participation, but here are some key Flynnmates we can thank here, alphabetically by first name
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Andy Hill from Chico, “Home of Sherwood Forest”
– Whiskey
A.R. – Cognac
‘B’ from Chicago
Bob Searles from Boston
Toasted from Cape Cod with a Cape Codder
Cathleen Schutz and Husband
G&T’s from North Haledon, New Jersey
Claudia from Germany
Champagne in Bavaria
Debby Phielix from Dordrect, Netherlands
Vodka and Cola
Jack ‘Mulholland Man’ Marino
From just north of Mulholland
Jose Garcia from Albecete, Spain
Toasted with La Mancha wine, a la Errol in ’37
King David from Myrtle Beach
CEO of the EFB
King Karl Holmberg
A Jack Rose from Upstate New York
Linda from New York
From Manhattan with a Jack Rose
Mitchell K. Green from Atlantla
Will “lift a libation”
Paul Harrison from Manchester, UK
formerly from Laguna Beach, USA
A G&T from Manchester
Ralph Schiller from outside Chicago
Selene Hutchison-Zuffi
From Kentucky – White Zinfandel
shangheinz – Flynn’s Main Man in Europe
A Will Tell from Vienna.
Steven Springer from Silver Spring, Maryland
Steve and his wife met online because of their
shared love of Errol and his films! He proposed on June 20, 1996
Steve & Genene (tassie devil)
From Hobart, Tasmania
Toasted with a G&T and Cascade beer
Tina Nyary
18-year-old Glenfiddich Malt Whiskey
Once poolside in the afternoon, once in the evening!!
Tita Lopez
Tequila in Tijuana
— Tim
A Father’s Day Tribute to Errol from Bariebel
22
Jun
Here is a wonderful music video from Bariebel, aka preeminent EFB Author Tina Nyary. Thank you, Tina!
Btw, Tina toasted twice on Saturday to Errol’s 111th from Toronto (I think Toronto) with an 18-year-old Glennfiddich Malt Whiskey – once by her pool in the afternoon, and once in the evening!!
— Tim
Mon Film – Robin de Bois: February 25, 1948
25
Feb
Mon Film was the leading “film photonovel” publication in France in the decades before and after World War II. (It was “on hiatus” during the war.) This issue was published on February 25, 1948, seventy-two years ago today.
Thank you to our great EFB Flynnmate and Author Tina (aka Baribel), for originally publishing this cover and information regarding it, nine years ago today. Danke, Tina!
— Tim
A Newcomer Named Errol Flynn
27
Dec
December 27, 1935
A Newcomer Named Errol Flynn in a Handsome Film Version of Captain Blood
“A spirited and criminally-handsome Australian named Errol Flynn plays the genteel buccaneer to the hilt.”
— Tim
Hark! ‘The Errol’ Moonbeams Shine!
21
Dec
America calling, PW …
Just in time for Christmastime – Our Lady in London – publishes Errol’s secret recipe!
“The Spectator magazine’s Christmas special is doubly festive this year, [including] an entry from journalist and high-society member Petronella Wyatt revealing details … of her favourite seasonal cocktail, “The Errol”, named after its inventor Errol Flynn.” [The Irish Times]
The Spectator Christmas Special
“My favoured cocktail for the Christmas alcoholiday is an invention of Errol Flynn’s. Flynn taught it to my late friend Diana, Countess of Wilton, back in the 1950s. Diana was a perfected presence, a swan among swans, and Flynn, who was living in Rome at the time, used to take her to lunch. Far from being a vulgar seducer, he liked to talk about Socrates and had wanted to become a writer. He was a tragic man, trapped by his own physical beauty. His eyes, the colour of Anatolian waters, had a terrible sadness. But he taught her to make a cocktail of such subtlety that it is like drinking moonbeams.”
“‘The Errol’ is a variation on a White Lady and I publish the recipe here for the first time. Into a cocktail shaker, pour 1 part gin, 1 part Cointreau and 1 part freshly squeezed lemon juice. Add a teaspoon of white rum. Shake with ice and serve in martini glasses.”
Thank you, Petronella, and Erroltime tidings!
— Tim
