At long last a new and long awaited book about Errol Flynn! Awaiting reviews from those who have the book. Amazon reviews are very positive …
— David DeWitt
Archive for the ‘Collectibles’ Category
Mail Bag! Tedd Thomey, The Story of a Life
23
Feb
The mail bag brings in a nice article suggested by Karl Holmberg: click book cover!
— David DeWitt
Mail Bag! New Errol Flynn Book Coming Soon!
11
Feb
We got a great recommendation in the Mail Bag from Greg Maradei for a new book about Errol Flynn …
“I received my new book today, Errol Flynn The Illustrated Life Chronology by Robert Florczak, and I love it. Like most fanatics of our dear boy, I own and have read all the books on Errol Flynn, the majority of which have told the same story and danced around the same facts. New information and new facts are what I crave, and Robert’s book completely delivers to include a volume of rare photos that I have never seen. For instance, if you want to see the chapel then and now where Errol and Lili were married, or Niven and Flynn’s house nicknamed “cirrhosis by the sea” you’re in for a treat. By the way, that house is neither on Linden Drive nor at Marion Davies’ “humble” beach abode.
“This is an illustrated chronological book of Errol Flynn’s life, and it provides a tremendous amount of accurate and detailed information never before published including rare events and anecdotes. Additionally, the mass of production notes provides the reader with what it was like for producers and directors to work with Flynn on a film.
“Robert worked tirelessly, researching Flynn for many years down every avenue and from all resources possible and successfully created a detailed and extremely well–documented chronology of one of recent history’s most enigmatic lives. So, for those of us who want to know more about Errol Flynn and his life – here it is …
“Thank you, Robert, for your excellent work and a great and extremely unique book on Errol Flynn.”
– Greg Maradei
This book is available on Pre-Order at Amazon.
We’ll publish some reviews when the long awaited book is published after February 28, 2022.
Thanks, Greg!
— David DeWitt
More On The Mystery Sword!
01
Feb
JANUARY 30 2022 – 12:00PM
Errol Flynn sword mystery takes a turn
• Chris Michaels
Local News
MYSTERY SWORD: Errol Flynn Society of Tasmanian Inc president Steve Randell.
The myth of the mysterious sword held at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery has taken another turn, with the founders of the Errol Flynn Society of Tasmanian Inc throwing new light on an old story.
Steve and Genene Randell started the society after a family tragedy as a way of coping with loss.
“We lost a child to SIDS and we were obviously down and out and one night [Genene] woke up in the middle of the night and she watched an Errol Flynn movie on television, Captain Blood,” he said. “Watching it brought her back to life. It got her out of that misery and back into society again. We have followed Errol since then and both were living in New South Wales at the time. We then moved to Tasmania and did some research on Errol and decided we’d start up a society ourselves.”
Recently the QVMAG senior curator of public history, Jon Addison showed off a sword purported to have been owned by one of Flynn’s ancestors.
“There is a story that the museum holds a sword supposedly owned by Errol Flynn, which had been inherited from his mother.” Mr. Addison said. “We are more or less certain that we don’t have Errol Flynn’s family’s sword here. At best, it’s unlikely, and it is very unlikely to have been the sword we have here.
(Thanks to Karl Holmberg for finding this image …)
Mr Randell shed new light on the mystery.
“The story goes that Errol played with that sword, and he refers to that in his autobiography,” he said. “Then his father gave it to the army navy club in Tasmania and they had it up on the wall and then it went missing. Nobody has actually said that Dudley Ransom stole it, but when I was up at the army barracks and talking to a museum curator, they definitely knew about him. It was said that Mr Ransom actually tried to steal one of the guns located on the gates at the army base.”
In 1972 Dudley Ransom, a Second Lieutenant in the 12th Australian Infantry Battalion, donated various army and navy items to the QVMAG.
City of Launceston mayor Albert van Zetten said myths or not, the QVMAG was a fascinating place to explore Tasmania’s vast and unique history.
“Wherever you look in Launceston there are stories just beneath the surface, and they’re often absolutely fascinating,” he said.
— tassie devil
Warner Bros Pay Stub! Errol Flynn!
24
Jan
Saw this on eBay today: FOR HIS 9TH PICTURE WITH A GROSS EARNINGS OF $90,000 AND NET EARNINGS OF $69,300 AFTER DEDUCTIONS.
— David DeWitt
