— Tim
Archive for the ‘Gentleman Tim’ Category
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away
29
Dec
Tammy, Tammy, Tammy is gone.
How terribly, terribly sad. One of the last true greats from Hollywood’s Golden Age has died, only a day after her daughter, also a film legend.
Around the time of her playing Tammy, there was discussion of Debbie Reynolds costarring with Errol, following his own great success in The Sun Also Rises. This was all circa the time Liz ran off with the Louse, leaving the unsinkable Debbie with two Fisher toddlers, Todd and Carrie. Carrie, of course, achieved immortality of her own starring in Star Wars with spacebuckler Hans Solo, a character inspired by Errol himself. Except for Harrison, they are all now in a galaxy far, far away. Godspeed to all of them.
— Tim
The Finest Ever Robin Hood
20
Dec
www.leftlion.co.uk/read/2017/january/6-greatest-robin-hoods-on-film-and-tv…
“The finest ever Robin Hood, Errol Flynn was a man who knew how to buckle a swash. No one has matched him in nearly eighty years of trying, and no one has even come close to filling a pair of tights as well as our Errol.”
— Tim
The Palm Beach Story
19
Dec
Visiting with the Vietors
Last year I published a post entitled “A Stay at Palm Beach with the Jell-O Queen” about Errol & Lili’s visit/vacation at Southwood, the prominent mansion of Eleanore Emily Woodward Vietor.*
In response to that post, I received correspondence from a descendent of the Vietors, who has very generously sent some clarifying and enhancing information, including in part the following news articles, the first of which reports (with a corrected date) on the party given for Errol & Lili in 1938. Look at that guest list! The Crockers (parents of Zaca owner Templeton Crocker), the Pillsburys (with all their dough), Howie Hughes, and E.F. Hutton (www.youtube.com…), among many other deep pockets and Cafe Society-Era socialites.
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Southwood also had a fascinating JFK connection:
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See, also, for an account of the Robin Hood Parody film starring Errol, Lili, Paulette Goddard, et al.:
* Southwood was only a very short walk from Mar-a-Lago, the new Winter White House, designed by the very same architect, Marion Sims Wyeth. … Not that anyone who was anyone on Palm Beach in those days would deign to undertake such a horrendously plebeian trek without chauffeur and vetements formels.
— Tim
A Distingushed Duo
19
Dec
Who is this distinguished duo with The Baron and Swoonatra??
– Alliterative rivals.
– Very well known, connected and influential in their day.
– One has a well known son.
— Tim
