What Famous British Dance Band was featured in a movie with Errol?
— Tim
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SUPER-DUPER
05
Feb
Did Errol ever get credited with being in a movie involving (American) Football?
— Tim
The real inspiration for Bond?
05
Feb
As we have been Bonding – as it were – I thought I would pose a quiz question.
Although Errol embodied Bond is so many ways, Fleming, sadly, did not seem to make that connection. This was probably because he was too myopic and snobbish. In fact, he was a social mountaineer; the Edmund Hillary of social climbers.
So my question is, what is the name of the man Fleming most admired and wanted to be (and that includes physically)?
In public, Fleming often gave contradictory answers when asked upon whom he had modelled James Bond. In private, however, he frequently named my ‘mystery man’ (pictured below). I know this is true because Fleming used to stay with my father in Wiltshire, and the ‘mystery man’s’ late wife was my Godmother.
Coincidentally, he bore a striking resemblance to Errol, and the two actually met at a dinner party in Italy.
Mystery Man
Errol
Clue 1: My ‘mystery man’ wasn’t a member of the Intelligence Services, a Government official, a writer, an ornithologist, an actor or any of the people usually mentioned. Fleming first met him in 1951 and later attended his wedding (below). (Interestingly, his wife, according to one of Fleming’s letters, was ‘my ideal of what a girl should look like, and how she should act’, which qualifies her for the distaff side of all the Bond novels published after 1955.)
Clue 2: In ‘From Russia With Love’, Fleming pays tribute to my ‘mystery man’ and his wife. When Bond and Tatiana have to flee from SMERSH, they are given false names. The names Fleming chose were their names.
Clue 3: A well-known sport was named after the ‘mystery man’s’ house.
Clue 4: The man is still living and has been called ‘the handsomest …. in England.’
So, what is his name?
My ‘mystery man’ outside his family house, and at the horse trials
— PW
In Tasmania Like Flynn
31
Jan
What rock star moved to Tasmania because he’s a big fan of Errol’s?
— Tim
What’s the Club?
16
Jan
The three men depicted below were all early members of a club that few of their acting colleagues in Tinsel Town joined.
– It involved a skill relatively rare among their acting colleagues.
– Sean later had the skill involved, but was not a club member.
– It was founded in 1944 and is still active.
What’s the Club?
— Tim
What Two TV Stars …
02
Jan
… appeared in a successful TV series together and… also, separately, had screen appearances in some Errol Flynn films: one of them twice, and the other 6 times (though actually there were 7 only this actor’s scenes were deleted).
Hints:
One began film career in 1916; the other had a diverse job career: ranch hand, a deputy sheriff, photo salesman, and a singer in night clubs before beginning a film career.
One appeared in over 100s film in the course of his career; the other more than 50.
One worked with Hitchcock, the other with Bogie 8 times.
In the 50s one appeared in a seminal Sci Fi film that led to a number of “sequels”, the other appeared in a landmark teen film.
One’s final film appearance was with a bombshell of the 60s. The other a fondness for flowers and grapes in this actor’s later life.
That’s a start…
Quiz By Karl Holmberg.
— David DeWitt
A Distingushed Duo
19
Dec
Who is this distinguished duo with The Baron and Swoonatra??
– Alliterative rivals.
– Very well known, connected and influential in their day.
– One has a well known son.
— Tim
Who was Errol’s Four Letter Favorite with the Lowest IQ?
05
Dec
Don Flynn went out and hung out with an impressive number of Four Letter Beauties. One in particular – though very, very sexy – unquestionably had the lowest IQ. Which one on the list below do you think it was?*
Alma
Gita
Hedy
Jane
Jean
Joan
Lana
Lili
Liza
Lucy
Lupe
Mary
Mona
Nora
Rita
Ting
During the mid-40s, they were seen riding on the Sunset Strip in Errol’s convertible. There were visits to an art gallery near the corner of Sunset & Alta Loma. ____ would dress VERY provocatively, raising spirits and commotion. One of Errol’s closest friends was usually involved and developed quite an unrequited crush on ____.
Decades later, Van Halen enjoyed that part of town, too.
*Most of Errol’s favorites were extremely bright, making it much more difficult if not impossible to identify the one with the highest IQ.
— Tim
