Dear fellow Flynn fans,
I had the great pleasure of welcoming the 200th Flynnthusiast on my FB homagepage LOCK, STOCK & ERROL this week.
As promised here`s a rarity to celebrate that Errol Flynn will always be in and never out of time.
Witness the perennial Robin Hood high on horse and accompanied by his German shepard dog Coldnose in Courmayeur, Italy of 1953 scouting locations for his missing master shot movie about William Tell:
Enjoy!
— shangheinz
Dear fellow Flynn fans,
if you want to dispose of 10 grands without having to sell your granny I have a proposition for you.
After auctioning off the golden bad boy of Hollywood`s head (www.theerrolflynnblog.com…) INVALUABLE has a new offer in store:
An absolutely one of a kind cinema treasure. Errol Flynn’s handprints, footprints and signature in concrete. Originally in the lobby floor of the Rhodes Theater in Chicago. This is one of 30 movie stars from the original 1937 theater opening and were salvaged prior to theater demolition. In overall fair condition. Has been cracked. One crack affects signature of Flynn. Concrete slab measures 18″x18″x2.5″. Rhodes Theater was located in Chicago at the corner of 79th and Rhodes on the south side. It opened Nov 19th, 1937 and was operated by Warner Bros. It was dubbed the Theatre of the Stars. One of its draws were 30 sets of hand and foot prints of Hollywood stars in the lobby floor ala Graumans Chinese Theater. The theater itself was done in Art Moderne Style. It was a single screen 1432 seat auditorium. It was demolished in the 1980s. Prior to demolition, the foot and hand print sets were salvaged.
How I´d love to high five Errol through space, time and cement, if I could only foot the bill!
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear fellow Flynn fans,
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the general release in the USA of the greenest adventure movie ever. Feel free to post away your favourite shot or memory of Robin Hood & his merry men and maids.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear fellow Flynn fans,
we often wondered aloud on the blog, which of the many signed cheques, autographs and contracts bore the real signature of Errol.
If we assume that at different times his business procurator Al Blum, third wife Pat Wymore and young assistent Ronnie Shedlo took over the duties of signing off for Flynn, there are plenty of documents for sale that make you question its origin.
Furthermore it is safe to say that everybody’s handwriting varies under the influence over the years.
Now this is meant to be a forum to compare memorabilia with our Hollywood hero’s lettering and to assign a certificate of Flynnticity.
Back to you.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear fellow Flynn fans,
I raise my grail and wish you and your loved ones a Happy Easter holiday with a sip of rhum, which must have been conceived by a thirsty Flynnthusiast somewhere in Holland.
The label is named after Errol’s original hideaway in Jamaica and even depicts his beloved Zaca. Its scent and taste is ripe with plumes, almonds and coffee beans. You can mix it with Coke, inject it in oranges and it’s said to cure everything from scurvy to a clear head.
Cheers mates,
— shangheinz
Dear fellow Flynn fans,
Niv the Shiv remembers fighting Flynn fondly.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear fellow Flynn fans,
Semi Pro Baseball player Fred “Slugger” Graham was as fierce as they come when it came to fisticuffs on film.
But he will foremost be remembered for taking the fall for Basil Rathbone in “The Adventures of Robin Hood”.
First at the spiral staircase swordfight he broke his ankle and then the death plunge of Sir Gizmo (short for Guy of Gisborne) landed him in the hospital for good.
Yet he went on to cross knuckles with the likes of Roy Rodgers, Rex Allan and Jock Mahony (www.theerrolflynnblog.com…)
His give and take on screen brawling sounded like this:
“Fights came easy to me. My ideas to make fights look good on screen were to stay loose and relaxed, a little distance from your opponent, and throw punches. Never throw a punch at chin level because a good take makes it look like a miss. Throw (the punch) at the opponent’s eye level because a good take makes it appear like its right on the chin.”
When he met John Wayne at Republic Pictures, he`d see his prolific puglistic career prolongued as the number one go to fall guy for the Duke.
Had Cabot, another later year regular at Wayne westerns doublecrossed him like Flynn, he would have ended up caputt.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear fellow Flynn fans,
we tackled the topic of Errol`s coming up short at the Oscars here before: www.theerrolflynnblog.com…
Last night though the Academy acknowledged his status among the true greats in their heartwarming hommage of 90 award winning years.
At 3.12 into the video the golden bad boy of Hollywood can be seen in the blink of an arrow.
Please don`t comment if you think that these two seconds of fleeting fame were expendable meriting narrowly a blog entry.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear fellow Flynn fans,
whoever said that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder may well have been a caricaturist. Those acerbic artists have a keen mean eye for the special facial features of a person. Especially Errol deemed handsome if not downright beautiful enticed them to sharpen their pencils another notch. The image above shows our Hollywood hero as seen and drawn by Adrian Teal. By no means an ugly inkling, don’t you think?
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
