Dear Flynnstones,
the power couple of Errol Flynn and Tiger Lil‘ ranked top on the Hollywood Helter Skelter-scale during their turbulent marriage.
Here’s the high and lowdown: www.encyclopedia.com…
Never mind Lili Damita’s wrong birthdate and the usual Higham-BS insinuations.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear Flynnstones,
this is Errol with his fiancée in spe Princess Irene Ghica at some soirée. A little knack for royalty almost got him married to this fragile beauty: deadorkicking.com…
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear Flynnstones,
now how about this lonesome, handsome and then some cowboy!
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear Flynnstones,
see Errol prepare his lines with host Conrad Nagel for the program „For richer, for richer“ on the CBS Silver Theatre show dated Dec. 7 1941.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear Flynnstones,
witness Geisha Man Errol Flynn greeting Japanese actress Izumi Yukimura gently on June 21st of 1957 during the Berlinale, where she entered the competition with the film Arashi.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear Flynnstones,
high above you see what Errol saw when he mounted the mast of his beloved ZACA like in the iconic photograph below.
The overview pic is from William Beebe‘s book “Zaca Venture“ recently featured on the blog.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear Flynnstones,
the A-list of anglers anchored at the Cabo Blanco Fishing Club situated at the Peruvian Pacific Coast more than 1000 miles north of its capital Lima.
Amongst them were the prime actors of their time, the likes of Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Bob Hope, Gregory Peck and Errol Flynn.
Membership fees of 10.000$ a year kept the club, which also ran a hotel, a bar as well as a restaurant, extremely exclusive.
This elusive hideaway became one of Ernest Hemingway‘s favorite haunts. The Chicagoean writer of writers loved this deep sea fishing paradise, where the biggest of marlins (black ones) went straight to heaven, mucho! Don Ernesto even caught the Nobel Prize there. Due to his poor health at the time after two plane crashes in Africa, he was unable to haul in the mega marlin he already had hooked. Sometimes you win, when you lose.
Years later Papa came back to supervise the filming of “The Old Man and the Sea‘ in person. Folklore has it, he can be seen in some scenes,
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
♦
Dear Flynnstones,
according to the annals of Schlosshotel Gerhus, a luxurious residence shaped after an Italian Renaissance Palais and situated in Grunewald, it was the site of an In(famous) like Flynn night.
While Errol stayed in Berlin for the Biennale of 1957, he took part in a fine wine degustation there.
Unaccustomed to merely sipping and tasting different wine sorts, our Hollywood hero soon became bored with the procedure. He saw no point in disposing the rest of your glass into a champagne bucket that was passed around and waiting his turn for a refill.
Immediately he started to down the grape juices like Vodka shots.
Roli, as called amicably by the German public, may have thought he owed his audience and put up a stiff performance.
At a certain point he wrestled the bucket away from the waiter and drank the whole mix in one heartily gulp.
Needless to say, he had to lie down thereafter.
Which goes to show, that he who lives by the bottle, will die by the bucket.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear Flynnstones,
even while crossing swords the tandem of Errolivia was a congenial duo. Much like Ginger and Fred the ballet of Blood looks beautiful.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear Flynnstones,
Tiger Lil started her way to film world and Flynn fame via Vienna: www.theerrolflynnblog.com…
The historic photographic studio MENASSE helped pave this catwalk (www.theerrolflynnblog.com…) to Hollywood with a series of collector postcards.
The motives varied from Orientalistic ornament
to Ingénue Deluxe
to Good Sport Tomboy
to White Rajahresse.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
