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— David DeWitt
Welcome New Author, Tom…
19
Mar
The Errol Flynn Blog welcomes Tom as an Author on the Blog! We are happy to welcome you aboard, and look forward to your contributions!
— David DeWitt
Olivia Stalker back in the day, 1947…
18
Mar
1947 Project blog
Olivia de Havilland's 'Advisor' Lands in Jail
May 30, 1947
Hollywood
“Psst! Olivia de Havilland! “Operation Everything” is off!”
That’s the happy news police gave today to the Academy award-winning actress,
with the arrest of her self-styled advisor, Paul Randall, a 34-year-old artist
from Chicago who has been inundating de Havilland with unsolicited advice
letters signed “St. Paul” or with a creepy P-in-a-circle motif.
The letters were followed by recent telegrams announcing Randall’s imminent
arrival in Los Angeles and demanding de Havilland meet him “alone.” Today he
angrily phoned de Havilland’s agent Kurt Frints to protest her failure to meet
him at Municipal
Airport. He told Frints that he was in town to carry out “Operations
Everything,” and that Miss de Havilland, whom he had met twelve years ago when
they were doing theatrical work (in Van Nuys, no less), would understand what
he meant. He intended to wait at 1738
N. Las Palmas Avenue, where “she better see me.”
Instead it was detectives who came to take a look at St. Paul in his new digs
in Hollywood Jail. They wired Chicago for more information, and asked that
police psychiatrist Dr. Paul De River examine him. Olivia de Havilland denies
knowing her visitor.
Maybe de Havilland was in town to work on The Snake Pit?
1738 Las Palmas Today…
Look familiar? Julia Roberts was saved from “the Life” by
Richard Gere at this hotel… in “Pretty Woman.”
Cultural historian Kim Cooper publishes Scram, a
journal of unpopular culture (www.scrammagazine.com…)
— David DeWitt
Flynn and the Hollywood Cricket Club…
18
Mar
Errol traveled to Vancouver BC to play for the Hollywood Cricket Club. I walked over the Cricket Grounds there about two years ago looking for the spot that the following picture was taken. I found it behind the oval track in Stanley Park at Brockton Point where my parents took my brother and I on hot summer days…
Saturday 4 July 1936
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Errol Flynn, Nigel Bruce, C. Aubrey Smith and other members of the Hollywood Cricket Club with the Vancouver Cricket Club at Brockton Point in Stanley Park.
— David DeWitt
Nice Pic from Dive Bomber…
18
Mar
Here is a nice pic from Dive Bomber with Errol, Fred MacMurray, and Ralph Bellamy…
— David DeWitt
Zaca is hauled out of water at Villefranche…
18
Mar
Hull of Zaca is hauled out of the water in the French seaside town of Villefranche for restoration by Alberto Memmo…
— David DeWitt
Welcome New Authors…
16
Mar
The Errol Flynn Blog Welcomes New Authors Jan, Ralph, Jack, Steve and Genene, and Brian to the blog! Watch for new articles by these wonderful writers and Flynn-o-philes!
We are looking forward to more Authors joining in the near future… and reading the contributions of all our Authors, including Karl and Bob–who are already onboard!
visit CoffeeWithDavid.com…
— David DeWitt
How I Became a Flynn Fan
15
Mar
Many years ago, when I was a young lad of 20-ish, I was working at my first job at a local printing plant. A co-worker and I were talking about old movies and movie stars, when he mentioned Errol Flynn. I'd only heard of him in passing, probably because of Robin Hood. I'd never even seen an Errol Flynn movie. My friend lent me his copy of My Wicked Wicked Ways. Well, I read the book, and was instantly hooked. So I read it again. Before long, I found a copy for myself. I asked mom and my aunts about him. They remembered him of course, but didn't know too much about him.
I then began scouring the TV for any Errol Flynn movies. Back then we were blessed with three stations….not including PBS. The movie output of those three stations was, shall we say….few and far between. Then late one Friday night, I managed to get a very snowy Detroit station to come in, and they were showing Charge Of The Light Brigade! Finally, there was Errol Flynn!!….for about 30 minutes, till the station signal faded away. But that was a start. Not long after, the same station came in again, and this time I managed to see Cry Wolf.
Later, after moving to town, cable became available. Then I was able to see several other Flynn movies, and later Portrait Of A Swashbuckler on the Biography Channel. I purchased several more books about Errol over the years, by Tony Thomas, Buster Wiles, Earl Conrad, George Morris, Michael Freedland, and best of all, Thomas McNulty's fabulous book. There was one other, that won't be mentioned…
And thanks to David DeWitt, another chapter of Flynn information, photos, stories and articles once again remind me of that day, four score and ten years ago, when I first became aware of our Mr. Flynn!
— Bob
