What’s the Flynnian connection?
— Tim
Archive for the ‘Gentleman Tim’ Category
Flynn at the West Side
04
Aug
Elmer Griffin’s legendary Tennis Club renovated and ready for the next set. One of Errol’s favorite courts.
— Tim
Love Letter to Robin Hood
02
Aug
Big Errol Flynn Fan and Great American Playwright, Ken Ludwig, creates a 360° stage version and tribute to The Adventures of Robin Hood at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater!
— Tim
Objective Brooklyn!
31
Jul
Grabbing breakfast this morning at the Brooklyn Water Bagel Company in Boca, I noticed the following 3′ x 3′ image. It’s a WWII era photo of the College Theater in Brooklyn, on the southeast corner of Flatbush Avenue and Glenwood Road. I can perrsonally attest that Flynn was HUGELY popular in Brooklyn, along the lines of a superhero – something touched upon in My Favotite Year.
— Tim
And Where Might This Be?
29
Jul
In early 1941, Errol reported that he had purchased land where he said “[he’d] rather live than anywhere else in the world.”
It’s breathtakingly beautiful.
A famous king was born nearby.
It was tens of thousands of acres.
It’s name had 2 ‘H’s, 2’U’s, and 2 ‘E’s.
He intended to raise Hereford cattle there.
There were already thousands of cattle there.
There were already hundreds of horses there.
There is a view of a famous geological feature.
He said he intended to bring Sean and Lili there.
The attack on Pearl Harbor may have sabotaged his plans.
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There is a golf course now on part of the property:
There are majestic beaches:
Peacocks live off the land:
And whale’s off it’s coast:
— Tim
Southern Cal in Errol’s Day
25
Jul
Great film from the Forties, including many of Errol’s old haunts, exactly how he would have seen them. LA, Beverly Hills, and Hollywood, Catalina, Snow Valley, Lake Arrowhead, San Juan Capistrano, and Laguna, down the coast to Del Mar, San Diego, Coronado, and Tijuana, back north to Palm Springs and Pasadena – all along the Santa Fe Railroad Trail.
— Tim
“The Leonardo of Leather”
24
Jul
He made Errol’s Robin Hood leather boots, and lent his horse Don to Errol for “Boots”. He was Bob Brown. Norman Rockwell declared him “The Leonardo of Leather”.
“Bob Brown’s first job was to create the tunic, belt, shoes and cap for Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood. Other famous owners of Bob’s work are John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Lash Larue, Sunset Carson, Hopalong Cassidy, Tex Williams and many many more. There is a story saying that Bob Brown was the one who taught John Wayne his famous walk.”
— Tim
Along the Santa Fe Trail
23
Jul
Errol is in the news today in an article about the also immortally great Glenn Miller, both of whom were voted number one male entertainer favorites at Asbury Park High School in 1939 – Miller for music, Flynn for film – assessments I’m sure were true throughout the country. Here’s the article, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra’s superlative version of “Along the Santa Fe Trail”, “intended for but never used for the 1940’s film The Santa Fe Trail.”
forbiddenmusic.org… (Note the reference to Erich Korngold’s famous music-critic father, Julius.)
— Tim
