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— Tim
Archive for the ‘Dates & Girlfriends’ Category
Dangerous Curves Ahead!
11
Feb
February 11, 1935
Sydney Skolsky
Cover Hollywood
Los Angeles Examiner
Lili Damita is now Trocaderomancing with Errol Flynn, a new Irish actor with Warners. It’s sizzling.
— Tim
Errol Shows at Sugie’s
28
Dec
December 20, 1941
The Hollywood Parade
Bill Wickersham
Los Angeles Examiner
Celebrating their engagement, Mickey Rooney and Ava Gardner were a beatific duo at “Sugie” Sugarman’s Beverly Tropics with Dick Paxton as their guests. And among those who pulledup alongside to rejoice with them were Betty Jaynes, the Douglas McPhails, Gwyne and Bud Ernst, and Errol Flynn.
A great place to get Errol Flynned.
— Tim
Friday the 13th, 1939 @ WB
13
Dec
“On Friday, January 13, 1939, a party was held on Stage 5 (now Stage 15) at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. The “Gay Lady Saloon” set from Warner’s Technicolor western spectacular Dodge City was still in use, having been dressed with additional props to celebrate that day’s Friday the 13th, and to poke fun at various other superstitions. Here is a selection of photos from that gathering, the original negatives of which were recently found deep in the WB archives.”
Henry O’Neill, Alan Hale, Michael Curtiz. Errol
Errol & Olivia
Errol, between Rosemary and Priscilla Lane
The Dodge City “Gay Lady Saloon” Bar
— Tim
Va Vooming with Virginia
06
Dec
December 4, 1944
Sidney Skolsky
Hollywood Citizen News
Errol Flynn and Virginia Norcross are vooming.
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There is little available on the internet about Virginia Norcross, but there is this about her marriage to Ann Miller’s wealthy ex, Reese Milner. The above image is from the Sanctuary of Heritage at Forest Lawn in Glendale. She died in Beverly Hills on January 29, 1992, exactly 44-years to the day following the nationally-published divorce/marriage announcement below.
“On January 29, 1948”: HOLLYWOOD (U.R) Steel Works Heir Reese Milner, 32, divorced Wednesday by Movie Dancer Ann Miller, 24, will be married Friday to Mrs. Virginia Norcross, 30, of San Francisco, a friend “for years and years.” Milner and Mrs. Norcross took out a license Wednesday, three hours after Miss Miller’s final decree was entered at his request.”
— Tim
No Buffalo in Modesto
02
Dec
But it’s a great excuse to steal a kiss from Olivia!
December 1, 1938
Los Angeles Examiner
Behind the Makeup
By Erskine Johnson
ON THE SETS: EXTERIOR — PRAIRIE — MODESTO, CALIF.
Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland ride to the top of a low ride and pull their horses to a halt. Their eyes travel over the countryside. Flynn, making his debut as a Western hero in Dodge City, lifts his arm, points off into the distance.
“See that herd of buffalo grazing so peacefully over there?” he says to Miss De Havilland.
She nods and her eyes follow his outstretched hand. Then she breaks into an involuntary giggle, spoiling the scene.
Flynn’s “herd of buffalo” is a lone, tired looking cow.
But when the picture is completed, the cow will be a real herd of buffalo. A camera crew traveled all the way to Oklahoma to photograph one of the few remaining herds of the animals that made the nickel famous. There aren’t any in California.
— Tim
Before She was a Guest
25
Nov
November 25, 1944
Louella O. Parsons
The lovely with Errol Flynn these nights is Lucy Cochrane, Boston socialite.
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After she married a cousin of Churchill’s 75 years ago, Lucy became more famously known as “C. Z. Guest”
— Tim
The Adventures of Star Wars
05
Sep
‘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
Nora the Adorable
20
Aug
Charleroi Mail
3rd Week of August, 1943
FLYNN YACHTING WITH APPRENTICE MACHINIST
Errol Flynn was yachting off the coast of Mexico Saturday with his newest girlfriend, a 19-year-old apprentice machinist from a Los Angeles airplane factory, Nora Eddington.
A nice girl she is, too, reported Flynn by phone from Acapulco, Mexico, and a fine companion for a fishing trip.
— Tim
Forty Years Ago Today
19
Aug
Aug. 19, 1979: Beverly Aadland writes to Los Angeles Times, publicly revealing that she lived in Palmdale (in the Antelope Valley, north of LA), happily married and expecting her first child!
— Tim
