December 27, 1935
A Newcomer Named Errol Flynn in a Handsome Film Version of Captain Blood
“A spirited and criminally-handsome Australian named Errol Flynn plays the genteel buccaneer to the hilt.”
— Tim
Archive for the ‘Newspaper & Headlines’ Category
Hat’s Off, Mike
24
Dec
December 24, 1937
Jimmy Starr
LA Evening Herald Express
For a thrilling scene in Robin Hood, Errol Flynn threw a 15 pound spear through a window and is supposed to make it stick in the opposite wall. Flynn threw the spear, but his name was poor.
Lucky for director Michael Curtiz that he ducked in time. The spear nipped off his hat, pinning it to the floor of the stage. “Are you hurt?” screamed the frantic Flynn.
“No, I am all right,” replied Mike, “but look at my hat — she is dead!”
— Tim
50 Christmas Bundles — — 70 Years Ago Today
23
Dec
December 23, 1949
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
Pals of Errol Flynn say that the Maharajah of Bundi invoted the star to join an elephant hunt on New Year’s Day. Meanwhile, Errol’s former mother-in-law Marge Eddington, sent out 50 Christmas bundles in Flynn’s name to underprivileged children.
Errol was in India filming Kim in November and December of 1949.
— Tim
Nay Paree
14
Dec
Errol gets a 20K pre-Christmas bonus for cancelling his “reconciliation trip” to Paris with Lili.
December 14, 1936
Sheila Graham
Dallas Morning News
Errol Flynn demanded – and received – a $20,000 bonus for cutting off his reconciliation trip with wife Lili Damita, returning to Hollywood in the kiddie story, Prince and the Pauper.
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Good-looking Hollywood gossip columnist Sheila Graham had a thing for the very virile Errol, a thing that made her legend of literature lover, F. Scott Fitzgerald, very jealous. At one point, the Mighty Flynn lived in a Garden of Allah bungalow next door to Fitzgerald’s. Sheila resided a block away, but often stayed with Fitzgerald at the Garden of Allah. She wrote the book on Hollywood’s most notorious upscale hotel of hedonism.
— Tim
The Perfect Specimen
11
Dec
December 11, 1937
WHAT THE PICTURE DID FOR ME
The Perfect Specimen: Errol Flynn, Joan Blondell — It is a natural. Plenty of clever stuff and Flynn and Blondell are good in the roles as the perfect man and the gal who knows what’s good for him — A.E. Goodman, Columbia Theatre, Columbia City, Ind. General Patronage.
— Tim
Twelfth Century Warfare at Warners
11
Dec
December 8, 1937
Los Angeles Examiner
RATHBONE AND FLYNN HURT IN ROBIN HOOD
This Twelfth century warfare is really tough.
So much mused Basil Rathbone, Errol Flynn and Sol Gorss yesterday as their names were added to the list of Robin Hood casualties.
Rathbone, who went through four years of World War without a scratch, came out of the Nottingham castle melee with a spear wound in the foot.
Flynn had a bump on his head, the result of a collision with a scabbard.
Gorss had a twisted ankle. He was stepped on by an extra after being “killed” by an arrow from Robin Hood’s bow.*
* The prolific Mr. Gorss:
— Tim
These Three
07
Dec
December 6, 1937
Evening Herald Examiner
Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck and Mary Astor in These Three on Theater of the Air, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, tonight on KNX at 6 p.m.
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— Tim
Flynn Acres
06
Dec
December 4, 1937
Jimmy Starr
Evening Herald Examiner
No one knows what Errol Flynn will be giving Lili Damita because Errol doesn’t know yet. “And probably won’t know,” he says, “before December 24. I wanted to give her a ranch, but she doesn’t like ranches. What is there to give a woman if she doesn’t like ranches?”
— Tim
Va Vooming with Virginia
06
Dec
December 4, 1944
Sidney Skolsky
Hollywood Citizen News
Errol Flynn and Virginia Norcross are vooming.
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There is little available on the internet about Virginia Norcross, but there is this about her marriage to Ann Miller’s wealthy ex, Reese Milner. The above image is from the Sanctuary of Heritage at Forest Lawn in Glendale. She died in Beverly Hills on January 29, 1992, exactly 44-years to the day following the nationally-published divorce/marriage announcement below.
“On January 29, 1948”: HOLLYWOOD (U.R) Steel Works Heir Reese Milner, 32, divorced Wednesday by Movie Dancer Ann Miller, 24, will be married Friday to Mrs. Virginia Norcross, 30, of San Francisco, a friend “for years and years.” Milner and Mrs. Norcross took out a license Wednesday, three hours after Miss Miller’s final decree was entered at his request.”
— Tim
Setting the Beard on Fire
03
Dec
December 3, 1937
Harrison Carroll
LA Evening Herald Examiner
…Errol Flynn held up the Robin Hood company for half an hour when he accidently set fire to Basil Rathbone’s beard, then completed the damage by tossing a bucket of water in his face.
— Tim
