— Tim
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Sittin’ Like Flynn?
16
Feb
February 15, 1938
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
At the Belfast School attended by Errol Flynn, they’ve made the star’s old desk a sign of honor. The student with the highest grades of the week gets to sit in it for five days. Desk was identified by a carved inscription on the back: “Errol Flynn, 1926.”
Falsely identied, says Flynn. He remembers the incident and says that he carved his name on the desk in front of him.
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Here’s how Errol looked circa the time of this alleged desk signing.
A school desk signed in 1926 Belfast by Errol Flynn? I believe that would be Errol’s most rare and valuable autograph … if it indeed ever existed! Perhaps they should have said Australia, rather than Northern Ireland. Or did Errol really attend school in Belfast???? (Possibly before or after his admission into or expulsion from Sydney Church of England Grammar(aka “Shore”)?) I think that would be news to me. In any case, what school, and what happened to the desk/where is it now??
— Tim
Nice Collection & Errol Flynn Photo from Marilyn Hunte!
27
Oct
Thanks for sharing, Marilyn …
— David DeWitt
Chile & Lili
03
Oct
For lovers of vintage clothing, British supermodel and vintage fashion muse Kate Moss unveils a personally curated selection of her favorite couture and costume pieces from the Museo de la Moda, the world-class fashion museum in Santiago, Chile.
One of the supermodel’s most iconic vintage looks featured in the book is a silver fringe slip dress once owned by Errol Flynn’s wife that she paired over a Calvin Klein slip dress and wore to the premiere of Oscar-winning film Ed Wood in which then-boyfriend Johnny Depp played the campy B-movie director.
— Tim
The Collector
03
Oct
In 1961, Morris Everett Jr. wandered into a New York store filled with vintage movie stock. As Everett flipped through the glossy stills and painted lithographs, his mind reverted back to the excitement of watching Errol Flynn on the big screen, and he thought, Ahhh, this is for me.
That day, he bought a lobby card from Flynn’s 1936 movie Charge of the Light Brigade.
He put it in a desk drawer in his fraternity house, unable to shake the feeling of his first purchase and the impact movies had on him.
For Everett, movie photos and posters are portals to the past, able to transport a viewer to the exact place and state of mind they were in when they first saw a film. Whenever he walks past a poster of Charge of the Light Brigade, he still “feels an inner glow,” he says.
Morris has collected more than 3 million movie photos and 200,000 posters capturing the splashy and storied history of American filmmaking. He is widely regarded the most significant collector of movie stills and posters in the world.
And after decades spent working with films both famous and those quickly forgotten, which does Everett claim to be his favorite?
“Robin Hood, the one with Errol Flynn.”
It is unclear which Charge of the Light Brigade lobby card first gave Morris such a charge, however, the following are likely candidates. Below the Charge lobby cards is a collage of a few dozen items from Everett’s actual collection.
— Tim
Errol Flynn’s Contract for Robin Hood!
31
Jul
He was paid $50,000 … equal to about $890, 000 dollars in 2018 dollars!
— David DeWitt
