Errol Flynn’s William Tell
“The Story of the Uncompleted 1953 CinemaScope Film”
— 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
Friday the 13th, 1939 @ WB
13
Dec
“On Friday, January 13, 1939, a party was held on Stage 5 (now Stage 15) at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. The “Gay Lady Saloon” set from Warner’s Technicolor western spectacular Dodge City was still in use, having been dressed with additional props to celebrate that day’s Friday the 13th, and to poke fun at various other superstitions. Here is a selection of photos from that gathering, the original negatives of which were recently found deep in the WB archives.”
Henry O’Neill, Alan Hale, Michael Curtiz. Errol
Errol & Olivia
Errol, between Rosemary and Priscilla Lane
The Dodge City “Gay Lady Saloon” Bar
— 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
Issa Flynn!?
09
Dec
Dear fellow Flynn fans,
here is a photo showing Abraham Elias Issa, prominent hotel owner of Jamaica’s famous Myrtel Bank Hotel in the company of a couple and a fella who looks like but doesn‘t grin like Flynn.
Is it a weary Errol or an Errorol (maybe one of these: www.theerrolflynnblog.com…) ?
The lovely lady in the picture doesn‘t care, she seems to have made up her mind to make the most of the moment. Issa hosted the creme de la creme of stars like Lawrence Olivier and Vivian Leigh, Walt Disney and Winston Churchill, Ava Gardner and Louis Armstrong at his destinct resort. He and our Hollywood hero were friendly, so there is a chance this is Ol‘ Errol with his hair parted very strictly. Real deal or heel- what‘s your educated guess…
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Mail Bag! Where the Boys Are! Sean Flynn (Uncredited!)
09
Dec
The Mail Bag brings a nice nugget about the film appearances of Sean Flynn (son of Errol Flynn and Lili Damita …)
I was looking at the filmography of George Hamilton and knew he was in that movie but was not listed as being in it on a particular website, looked further and also found THIS…. Guess who?
WAIT FOR IT….SEAN FLYNN (UNCREDITED) !You have to look for “full cast & crew” to find him. I tried to copy that link to tiny URL but no dice.How about that!AudieGREAT Find … Thanks so much!
— David DeWitt
Flynn v. Pigham
09
Dec
December 9, 1983
Thanks, Rory & Deirdre, for standing up so lovingly and heroically for your Father against the creepy, “grievous and disturbing” defamation of Charles Pigham, depicted below.
[Civ. No. 68301. Court of Appeals of California, Second Appellate District, Division One. December 9, 1983.]
RORY FLYNN et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CHARLES PIGHAM et al., Defendants and Respondents.
The Sick and Greed-Driven Mr. Pigham:
— 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
