Dear fellow Flynn fans,
I just want to let you know that my little treasure chest “LOCK, STOCK & ERROL” locked up its 100th Flynnthusiast this week. Join the festivities and catch a glimpse at an ultrarare clip of Errol and the crew in Courmayeur while filming Will Tell: www.facebook.com…
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Interesting Mail Bag item from Gene Ingram:
Hi, David!
I bought 26 – 4 3/16 X 5 3/16 Envelopes that have Errol Flynn preprinted on the back flap from a man’s family that was a friend of Errol Flynn. The man had a business in another country. He would take the stamps from other foreign countries and put them in envelopes marked in pencil with the name of the country and when had had several would send them to Errol for his collection. The envelopes I have for sale all have stamps in them except one. Some have two or three, some have as many as eight. All of the stamps are from the 1930’s , 1940’s or earlier, and all have been canceled, they are all listed on Ebay, ERROL FLYNN “RARE “ ENVELOPE
These are separate eBay Auctions featuring envelopes with various stamps in each envelope. See images of the stamps below contained in these envelopes. Countries stamps include: Spain, Austria, Peru, Portugal, Turkey, Italy & Finland.
Thanks, Gene!
— David DeWitt
Big Errol Flynn Fan and Great American Playwright, Ken Ludwig, creates a 360° stage version and tribute to The Adventures of Robin Hood at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater!
— Tim
Grabbing breakfast this morning at the Brooklyn Water Bagel Company in Boca, I noticed the following 3′ x 3′ image. It’s a WWII era photo of the College Theater in Brooklyn, on the southeast corner of Flatbush Avenue and Glenwood Road. I can perrsonally attest that Flynn was HUGELY popular in Brooklyn, along the lines of a superhero – something touched upon in My Favotite Year.
— Tim
In early 1941, Errol reported that he had purchased land where he said “[he’d] rather live than anywhere else in the world.”
It’s breathtakingly beautiful.
A famous king was born nearby.
It was tens of thousands of acres.
It’s name had 2 ‘H’s, 2’U’s, and 2 ‘E’s.
He intended to raise Hereford cattle there.
There were already thousands of cattle there.
There were already hundreds of horses there.
There is a view of a famous geological feature.
He said he intended to bring Sean and Lili there.
The attack on Pearl Harbor may have sabotaged his plans.
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There is a golf course now on part of the property:
There are majestic beaches:
Peacocks live off the land:
And whale’s off it’s coast:
— Tim
Going over stuff for 1943, and looking over a shoot at Mulholland with Errol and his artwork during the week of July 20th, before Errol left for Mexico. In a few of the pix Flynn is outside with a doberman pinscher.
My question: Is that Errol’s dog? … or was it Buster’s dog? … and regardless, what was the dog’s name?
Even Matzen’s book, which has a couple of pix of the dog, never mentions his name …
— David DeWitt
Errol/Titchfield Hotel
I enjoy reading your articles. I have often wondered if anyone knows what work Cahill Interiors did at the hotel for that this check paid for?
Thanks, Delaine!
— David DeWitt
Great film from the Forties, including many of Errol’s old haunts, exactly how he would have seen them. LA, Beverly Hills, and Hollywood, Catalina, Snow Valley, Lake Arrowhead, San Juan Capistrano, and Laguna, down the coast to Del Mar, San Diego, Coronado, and Tijuana, back north to Palm Springs and Pasadena – all along the Santa Fe Railroad Trail.
— Tim
He made Errol’s Robin Hood leather boots, and lent his horse Don to Errol for “Boots”. He was Bob Brown. Norman Rockwell declared him “The Leonardo of Leather”.
“Bob Brown’s first job was to create the tunic, belt, shoes and cap for Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood. Other famous owners of Bob’s work are John Wayne, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Lash Larue, Sunset Carson, Hopalong Cassidy, Tex Williams and many many more. There is a story saying that Bob Brown was the one who taught John Wayne his famous walk.”
— Tim
