The Errol Flynn Blog

Kyra Pahlen writes:

My father, Victor Pahlen, making Cuban Story with Errol Flynn, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara – etc. Read the article!PS: this film needs further restoring – just in case any of you have a thought!

FILM STAR WITH A CAUSE

by John Paul Rathbone

A brief quote from the article:

“I am resigned to the fact that the primitive life of the simple South Sea islanders is the best,” Flynn wrote towards the end of his autobiography, although, as he added, “it is not for me. I have become too much a cosmopolitan.” Nonetheless, he seems to have found something of this island idyll in Cuba, which was the subject of his last two films. As well as Cuban Story, Flynn also made Cuban Rebel Girls, a pitiful movie starring his 17-year old girlfriend, Beverly Aadland, whom he called his “wood nymph”.

Flynn suffered a fatal heart attack on October 14 1959, on a trip to Vancouver, Canada, two and a half months before the dreadful Cuban Rebel Girls had its New York premiere. By the time of his death, though, Flynn had changed his mind about the revolution: “It is one thing to start a revolution, another to win it, and still another to make it stick, and as far as this writer is concerned it ain’t sticking … the police state in Cuba is not very different from that of its predecessors.”

– Errol Flynn

on.ft.com…!

Thanks for letting us know about this interesting article, Kyra!

You can download the movie !

— David DeWitt

I got a nice email from Steve Hayes today, wishing me a Happy Thanksgiving and bringing me up to date with things in LA. Steve and his sometime English collaborator writer David Whitehead are busy with new books and David updated Steve's website at SteveHayes.org… recently. Steve and his lovely wife Robbin were literally headed out the door to spend some time in Palm Springs. Steve is writing westerns and two new mysteries, he says – working out on the treadmill and enjoying life!

When I grow up, I want to be just like Steve Hayes!

— David DeWitt

Here are two photos that our pal Chris Driscoll says may be a bit grainy but show the outside and a room inside of a house that Errol lived in with his parents in Hobart. Chris writes:

David, I found these photos of one of Errol's childhood homes in Hobart. Don Norman originally showed me the house from the street and on another occasion I returned and asked permission to photograph the house from the street and the current owners asked me in and showed me up to Errol's bedroom. His bedroom was upstairs and facing the street.
 
Apologies for the grainy quality of the bedroom shot, but at least you'll get ( I hope ) a feeling or some resonance of Errol's journey.

The street shot is better quality though. It was really exciting to be in his home. It's not the home
where he set fire to the garage though. I cant exactly remember which Hobart suburb it's in but suffice to say it's walking distance to the city centre. I think it's in the vicinity of Sth Hobart. It was definitely south of the central business district.

— David DeWitt

Our chum, Chris Driscoll, has send me a link to his video “…highlights of my time spent in PNG cruising the islands and Sepik River. Music Pila Pila by “Not Drowning, Waving” Thanks, Chris!

— David DeWitt

HAPPY NEW YEAR  DAVID, from the Harbor in Sydney that Errol sailed upon as a young man, before
the world saw him as the magnificent firework display that he was !

Enjoy the video & Best Wishes for 2011.

  …your faithful ol' chum. Chris

Sydney's New Year's fireworks display 2010

Thanks, M8!!!

— David DeWitt

— David DeWitt

Hello everyone,

On My radio show I am having ROBERT FLORCZAK  one of the Mulholland Drive Boys.  The show is on LA TALK RADIO at 8PM PST & 11PM EST  www.latalkradio.com…; click on channel 2

at 8PM and the show will begin LIVE

Thanks, Jack
Jack Marino

Artist-Illustrator–Author–Recording Artist–College/University Instructor–World Traveler

Born in Washington, D.C. but raised in New Jersey; recently awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by his hometown and inducted into its Hall Of Fame An art graduate of the renowned The Cooper Union in New York City Performed music in nightclubs and concert halls around the U.S.
Recorded and released original music internationally, including with The National Philharmonic in London (the orchestra responsible for the wonderful RCA classic film score recordings conducted by Charles Gerhardt) Came to Hollywood in 1981 to score music for the motion picture “Roar”, starring Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith; while working on the film, lived on Hedren's game preserve amongst scores of wild lions and tigers Lived on John Barrymore's Bella Vista estate in Beverly Hills Personally toured Errol Flynn's Mulholland Farm when Rick Nelson lived thereMet and dialogued with Charlie Burt, one of Flynn's three yacht mates on his Sirocco adventures in New Guinea in the early '30s Friend and/or acquaintance of Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith, Jimmy Stewart, Fred Astaire, Jim Croce, Harry Nilsson, Nino Tempo, Dennis Prager, etc. Original art in the collections of Mel Gibson, Jimmy Stewart (now in the James Stewart Theater in Princeton), Michael Jackson (including the design for the logo of his Neverland estate), Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Allen, etc. Illustrator of eight noted picture booksContinues to tour the world, and is in the process of completing a photo essay book from his travels called “Movie Locations-Then & Now”, and preparing a book on the making of “The Adventures Of Robin Hood. Married and the father of two young children.

Warmest regards,

Jack Marino
Filmmaker/Radio Talk Show Host

LIVE ON LA TALK RADIO

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— David DeWitt

This comes from our Author Chris Driscoll in Australia…

Hello, David. This interview was played today on Australian Radio. It's with Boyd Anderson who authored who authored

Best Regards, Chris

Boyd Anderson and Hannah Gadsby: www.abc.net…

— David DeWitt

Steve Genene Randell

Hi all! Well, about a week ago I finished Errol and Olivia.What a great read it was hard to put down. every morning for about 1 hour I read the book. I learnt a lot about Olivia's fight with JL She had to be 1 gutsy broad to do what she did and the things he did to her for it. But she won out in the end because of what she done her name will be used in the legal profession for all time to come. The star crossed lovers such as Errol and her were. And the many lovers they had before and since their meeting but she always say's there was that something different about Errol that glimmer in his eyes that had gone when she met him many years layer. And how she slapped his face when he approached her because she did not know her. This book is intriguing stirring, and gutsy. If you have not got your copy all ready get your hands on one. PS and there were some pics I have not seen. Here is the link if you want to get yourself a copy errolandolivia.com…

Regards, Genene.

— David DeWitt

— David DeWitt