— Tim
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We Welcome New Author Suzanne Issa to The Errol Flynn Blog!
08
Aug
I’m very happy to announce our newest Author on The Errol Flynn Blog, Suzanne Issa! Her mother and father knew Errol well, and Suzanne tells me:
Yes, as a child we used to spend our holidays at Tower Isle and I remember Errol Flynn walking through the hotel, dressed in white slacks and and white shirt opened to the waist, looking very tanned and very handsome. I had a childhood crush on him.
He also was a frequent visitor at my father’s hotel in Kingston, The Myrtle Bank Hotel.
Another childhood Memory was, very late one night, a car was honking in our driveway at our Kingston home and it was Errol Flynn calling out to my father that he had broken his leg and asking if he could spend the night. I was thrilled to say the least.
His third and last wife, Patrice Wymore who passed away last year was also a great friend and continued to make Jamaica her home she lived and owned a large estate in Port Antonio with cattle. Her grandson, Luke inherited the property after her death and I believe it is now for sale.
If I come across any more recollections, I will send them to you, along with any photos I may find.
Best Regards,
Suzanne
Suzanne, we look forward to your posts and comments!
Welcome aboard …
— David DeWitt
Mail Bag! Who is that Mystery Woman with Errol Flynn?
08
Aug
We received a nice email today referring to a photo published on the blog with the question Who is the lady? Although our Author Mary Ann discovered the answer, this, too, confirms the facts from a great source.
The mystery woman is my mother, Lorraine Issa and that photo was taken at The Tower Isle Hotel which was built and owned by My father, Abe Issa (Jamaica’s Father Of Tourism). It opened in 1949 and hosted many celebrities from around the world. Errol Flynn was A friend of both my parents and was a frequent visitor to the hotel. In 1978, the hotel became the worlds 1st all-inclusive hotel for couples only. It was called Couples Ocho Rios but after an extensive renovation years later, changed the name to Couples Tower Isle which it is now called.
Suzanne Issa
Thanks, Suzanne!
— David DeWitt
Olympic Bio of the Day: The Amazing Mr. McEvoy
08
Aug
olympstats.com…Freddie McEvoy: A True Olympian
Freddie in his Maserati 6CM at the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Races:
Check Out Freddie’s 1938 Talbot-Lago T-150-C-SS Tear Drop Coupe:
Freddie’s Gorgeous “Art Deco” “Sensuous Steel” Auto Makes It’s Entrance in this Vimeo Video at ~ 0:16, with Prohibition Era Soundtrack:
* For further details on Suicide Freddie, please contact shangheinz, our resident McEvoy Master.
— Tim
Robin Hood Statue – is this for real?
07
Aug
In late 1937 the directors of The Adventures of Robin Hood, Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, presented Errol Flynn with this statue, for all his hard work on the phenomenally successful movie. A European master artist had been instructed by the film’s producers to create this Art-Deco figurine in the likeness of Flynn in his starring role. It stands 30 inches tall from the top of the wooden bow, to the bottom of the Italian Swirled marble base and weighs approximately 30-35 pounds.
It spent many years in Errol Flynn’s holiday home in New Hampshire in the U.S.A.
Errol had a holiday home in New Hampshire?
— Maria
Star Sparkles (Bioluminescence)-shines-in-Southern-Tasmania
07
Aug
This is a fascinating occurrence that appeared in Tasmania May 2015. I also have found reference to it occurring in San Diego -I am sure there are other areas as well. Just magical!
— Maria
Speaking of Designers …
07
Aug
Who is the Legendary Designer Showing Errol Her Sketches?
And What is Her Most Famous Design??
— Tim
Orry – Kelly Exhibition
06
Aug
The personal and professional life of three-time Academy Award winning Australian costume designer Orry-Kelly is celebrated in Orry-Kelly: Dressing Hollywood, which runs from 18 August to 17 January. There are many items on display, including 10 of Orry-Kelly’s costumes. Film critic Luke Buckmaster examines a handful of these costumes, revisits the films they were made for and speaks to lead curator Ulanda Blair.
Director Gillian Armstrong’s new documentary Women He’s Undressed celebrates the life of Australian costume designer Orry-Kelly. The Kiama-born expat migrated to Hollywood in the early 1930s and came to be regarded as one of the greatest costume designers of all time – dresser of Bette Davis, Jane Fonda, Ingrid Bergman, Natalie Wood, Humphrey Bogart, Carey Grant and countless others – Errol Flynn as Don Juan!
— Maria
Errol Flynn: Superhero
05
Aug
Wise Words from Stan Lee – On Being Young, Growing Old, and Needing Heroes …
— Tim
Rick Dodd has Passed Away …
04
Aug
Brian Twist contacted me awhile ago with the sad news of legendary Rick Dodd’s passing away recently, but the family wasn’t prepared to release the sad news until today. Claire, Rick’s daughter, emailed Brian, and asked that he tell a few people including Tom McNulty, Jack Marino, and his dear friend Trudy McVicker that he had passed peacefully on July 20, 2015. Rick Dodd is a name many of you first encountered within the pages of several books about Errol Flynn.
This was before the internet, and it’s instant informmation on almost any subject. In those days, you went to a library to look up subjects like Errol Flynn on card index files and hunted up reference materials like books and magazines and newspapers and held the source masterial in your hand. In the books about Flynn invariably a photo of Errol would be credited: Courtesy Rick Dodd Collection. That’s was my first encounter with his name. Nobody had a better collection of Flynn memorabilia in the world than Rick Dodd for a very, very long time.
Rick Dodd suffered from medical conditions for a long time in his later years. But his spirit was undimmed. His funeral will be August 10, 2015.
Tom McNulty allows me to quote part of an email we exchanged about his friend Rick Dodd:
I will miss our phone conversations and letters. Each Christmas since the mid 90s or so I have been sending him a gift – usually books I had privately made or had printed of Errol Flynn photos. And each Christmas he would raise a glass and salute his hero and all of Errol’s fans as well. Rick Dodd was the last of the true gentlemen. Let him rest easy and let us pray that if indeed such things are possible he is having a good laugh and sharing stories with Errol Flynn as he would wish. There goes a bright light but I am privileged to have called him my friend.
Thanks, Tom … We wish Rick’s family our deepest condolences on their loss, and we mourn the passing of a fine gentleman.
— David DeWitt
