Who is the greatest action-adventure movie star of all time?
What Hollywood superstar from the 1930s and 1940s who has never been honored by the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences, most deserves to be?
— Tim
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Classic Film Blunders: Pulling Plugs & Slipping Disks
05
Nov
FANS DUMBSTRUCK OVER FILMSTRUCK
“RIP FilmStruck, one of classic cinema’s last refuges in the streaming era”
“The beloved destination for foreign films, art-house discoveries, and movies from Hollywood’s Golden Age is shutting down.”
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“On the news that FilmStruck has been struck down, fans — including Hollywood directors Barry Jenkins, Guillermo del Toro and Rian Johnson — vented their shock, sadness and anger on social media.”
“FilmStruck will cease operations on Nov. 29 after two years in operation, Turner and Warner Bros. Digital Networks announced Friday.”
“The service hosted hundreds of classic, arthouse, indie and foreign films.”
“On Friday, the FilmStruck site posted this message: “We regret to inform you that FilmStruck will be shutting down. Our last day of service will be November 29, 2018, and we are currently no longer enrolling new subscribers. All current FilmStruck subscribers will receive an email with details about your account and the refund process as applicable.”
“The question that now remains hovering in the air is where are the film connoisseurs and the film fans of the future going to encounter the classics of yester-year, the films which still routinely inspire today’s directors.”
www.eadt.co.uk/ea-life/can-film-classics-survive-the-streaming-age-and-the-end-of-dvd-1-5761036…
— Tim
Oceans Apart . . . – – – . . . 80 Years Ago This Week
03
Nov
November 3, 1938
Louella O. Parson
Los Angeles Examiner
“Errol Flynn has promised to be home November 11 from his Honolulu holiday.”
. . . – – – . . .
November 4, 1938
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
Yesterday’s late editions carried a one-paragraph story from London that will lift eyebrows in Hollywood. It quoted Lili Damita as follows:
“I’ve retired from film work forever. I’m going to settle down and be a wife and a mother.”
Only one thing that would have tilted the eyebrows higher—if Errol Flynn had said: “I’m going to settle down and be a husband and father.”
— Tim
Snappy Errolween
31
Oct
Young Errol Hood
“It’s the Errol Flynn Robin Hood version complete with mustache. We used brown fleece, a long sleeved green shirt and green pants, fleece tunic, leather belt cut to fit, complete with bow and arrow, leather boots with brown fleece sewn at the tops, and to top that off, a feather in his cap!”
Lovely Lady Robin
The Enchanting Maid Marian
— Tim
(Not So) Confidential
28
Oct
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“We all read it,” Marlene Dietrich said, “not because it was any good . . . but to find out if we were in it.”
Errol Flynn came to Los Angeles in hopes of testifying against the magazine. Many stars fled the town and country.
— Tim
Flyin’ Flynn – October 1937
24
Oct
“Warners have fired Errol a red-hot telegram, ordering him to discontinue
flying lessons on the Robin Hood location. Studio nearly had a fit
when it learned Flynn and Patric Knowles have been renting a plane at a Chico
airport and making night flights. Knowles, a licensed but comparatively
inexperienced pilot, was in the role of teacher. Flynn, of pupil.”
– October 26, Harrison Carroll
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“Garbed in their Robin Hood costumes, Errol Flynn and Patric Knowles scared a farmer near Chico, Calif., where the company is on location, by asking him how to kill a pig-one they claimed they found. He took one look at their costumes and slammed the door in their faces.”
– October 16, Hollywood’s Gabby Corners
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Here is Flight Instructor Knowles with His Illustrious Student Pilot ..
— Tim
Cutting the Cake in Monaco — October 23, 1950
23
Oct
Cutting the Cake in Monaco
International News Coverage
The Hotel de Paris
— Tim
Walking the Hall of Justice — October 22, 1942
23
Oct
In this October 22,1942 AP file photo, actor Errol Flynn is flanked by his attorneys Robert E. Ford, left, and Jerry Giesler, right.
— Tim
Yours Truly? Fake News?
21
Oct
QUOTED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES
REPEATED BY TCM
“Character actor James McCallion began his performing career as a child in the 1920s and acted on screen until the 1970s. He began acting on Broadway as a 9-year-old, opposite Errol Flynn in “Yours Truly.” His film career began with several roles in 1939, including one in the drama “Pride of the Blue Grass,” with Edith Fellows. After a hiatus that lasted a decade and a half, he returned in the 1954 adventure “Vera Cruz,” a Robert Aldrich film starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster. In the 1950s he appeared with Edward G. Robinson in “Illegal,” a noir thriller playing gangster Allen Parker, and had a small part in Alfred Hitchcock’s “North By Northwest.” He also appeared in the great director’s TV show “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” as well as numerous other TV dramas. His biggest television part was a starring role in “National Velvet,” a series that ran for two seasons, beginning in 1960. He had a role in the biographical film “PT 109,” based on the wartime experiences of John F. Kennedy, and was a supporting actor in the 1965 comedy “Strange Bedfellows.” Many of his later film roles came in Westerns, such as the 1970 comedic feature “Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County” and the drama “Gunfight in Abilene.” He was also a frequent guest star on the detective dramas of the era like “Cannon,” “Ironside,” and”The Streets of San Francisco.””
Should TCM update/correct their bio to refetence another Australian-born American actor, not Flynn. Perhaps one that once appeared in the same film as Mr. & Mrs. Flynn?
— Tim
