There is more to the story of the history of “dueling” than you might think so, here’s a review of a new book that explores the topic: Honour and the Sword: The Culture of Duelling
by Joseph Farrell.
— Karl
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Casanova… A Venetian Poltroon?
20
Jan
Errol and Marilyn … Did it Happen?
18
Jan
The post will have several newspapers clipping and 2 pages of books.
The available evidence:
Danny Kaye’s account states that Errol met and snubbed Monroe Aug 19 1950 at a party Danny organized for Olivier Laurence and Vivian Leigh. That was the first time that they were introduced.
Errol wasn’t in LA on Aug 19 1950, he was in France.
Errol and Pat were at a party in LA on Aug 2 1950 with Danny Kaye present … but I found no evidence that Monroe was there.
The last big party Errol threw at Mulholland was in feb 1949.
I also found no evidence that the ballet corps in the swimming pool was naked.
Supposedly the “bunny” race was at that party. (Hence, Feb 1949).
No evidence was found that Monroe was present or that such event even happened other than Hedy Lamar’s autobiography. She sued her ghost writer for filling the book with lies. No other accounts of the bunny race were found.
Truman Capote’s story was told only by Capote. A pathological liar, according to many observers. Errol couldn’t play the piano.
The letter of Marilyn to Errol … Monroe experts said that they have no recollection of the two meeting and the handwriting isn’t Monroe’s. The fact that it was auctioned by Christie’s means nothing. As of now that letter is considered a forgery.
So as of now I have zero evidence that Marilyn and Errol ever met …
— Selene Hutchison-Zuffi
Movin Hood
17
Jan
Dear Flynnstones,
here are rare movie stills of TAORH in motion.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
The Dalgety Déjà Vu
16
Jan
Mail Bag! Errol & Olivia Nice Robin Hood Photo!
12
Jan
Karl Holmberg sends the Mail Bag this nice Robin Hood and maid Marian photo!
— David DeWitt
A silent flimm
09
Jan
Mulholland House
28
Dec
Dear Flynnmates,
“How is all this?”, wondered Errol Flynn in a home story for an architectural magazine about his new built house at 7740 Mulholland Drive. “I am still in my thirties and I am sitting on top of the world”.
He refers to his new home as Mulholland House built in the style of Connecticut farmhouse and graciously offers a glimpse not only into his habitat but also his soul.
“I was a pirate in another life and believe dying is only dying on this earth..”
He elaborates how via way of Tahiti he was washed ashore at Warners and beat out Leslie Howard, Ronald Coleman, Frederic March and Clark Gable for the role of Captain Blood vacated by Robert Donat.
Marion Davies had been first choice to star opposite him, but William Randolph Hearst considered the part not prestigious enough for his protegé and consoled her with a ocean front beach house at Santa Monica instead.
Flynn meanwhile built his dream house on eleven and a half acres in the Hollywood hills with panoramic view of the ranch lands of the San Fernando Valley before it became sub urbanized.
“She went up fast, like the sails of a boat,” he remembered the costs escalating from $35.000 to $ 125000 after he made various additions like the circular stables copied from the Lipizzaner stables in Vienna.
The den true to style mimicked a pirate`s lair with a zebra skin rug, a model galleon over the fireplace, a ship`s clock, a barometer and another ship`s model top the stairs with a brass tab on its glass case engraved with four lines of verse that pretty much summed up its owner`s philosophy:
“One ship sails east/the other west/by the same winds that blow/it`s the set of the sails and not the rules/that decide the way to go.”
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
