Jan van der Vliet shares a note he got from Olivia deHavilland’s secretary back in 2010 when he was going to Paris on a trip and thought: why not write to Olivia and see if he could stop by … knowing his chance were slim to none she would say yes, he wrote a nice letter and received this reply:
Thanks for sharing, Jan!
— David DeWitt
‘What George Lucas Borrowed from The Adventures of Robin Hood to Make Star Wars’
Errol Flynn exudes exuberance that can’t be understated as the beating heart of the film.
Flynn makes The Adventures of Robin Hood a joy to watch.
Not only did the film get the legend of Robin Hood, of medieval heroes and villains, right, it got them so right that its distillation of the myth is still the gold standard almost a century later.
In 2003, Roger Ebert wrote:
The ideal hero must do good, defeat evil, have a good time, and win the girl. The Adventures of Robin Hood is like a textbook on how to get that right.
— Tim
August 6, 1938
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
They are staging a prize-fight, vintage of 1905, for Warner Bros Picture, The Sisters.
Two old time fighters are in the ring and Bette Davis and Errol Flynn are sitting in the front row. Flynn plays a sports writer in the story and Bette is his wife. This is supposed to be the first fight she has ever seen and one of the boxers gets knocked out of the ring and practically into her lap. She is sickened and leaves the stadium.
Bette Davis isn’t a fight fan off the screen, either.
— Tim
Jimmy and Errol during the filming of Frisco Kid and Captain Blood. No hug or smile for hubby, though!
July 25, 1935
A Little from Lots
by Ralph Wilks
Photography on two Warner special productions, Frisco Kid, starring James Cagney, and Captain Blood, co-starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, starts next Monda at the Burbank studios under the direction of Lloyd Bacon and Michael Curtiz, respectively.
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Look for Lili in the poker scene ~ 0:47 – 1:00, and in the “star-in-every-role” end credits:
— Tim
From Karl Holmberg:
“Generally considered the film that caused Olivia de Havilland to sue Warner Brothers over contract rights. She won the lawsuit, resulting in California Labor Code Section 2855, informally known as the “De Havilland Law”.”
Gotta wonder if “Chas” (an Oscar winner for that year!) didn’t also help that along a little…
(According to Piper Laurie in her memoirs (Learning To Love Out Loud), Charles Coburn loved pinching women’s bottoms. It was for him like a tic. Every female under one hundred and five had to move fast around.)
PRINCESS O’ROURKE, Olivia de Havilland, 1943
— David DeWitt
Errol Flynn, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Tyrone Power, and Eddie Albert in “The Sun Also Rises” (1957)
— David DeWitt
