— David DeWitt
Shop@CoffeeWithDavid… for Flynn items!
13
Mar
Now you can shop for Errol Flynn items at my new Errol Flynn related store in association with Amazon.com…! My online store features Flynn movies, documentaries and books with more Flynn merchandise coming soon!
Other categories will be added to the store in the coming weeks, as well. I am adding an OTR (Old Time Radio) category, for example.
Many of the Golden Age Movies stars worked in radio as well as on the Silver Screen, and you can find Errol and his many co-stars and contemporaries in these productions which often were radio versions of their films–but not always starring the same actors. Original radio dramas were on every week and starred future stars, too. Dramas, Comedies, Sports, and Variety Shows filled the airwaves each night for many years before Television finally brought and end to this artful. The good news is that most of it still exists!
You will soon be able to buy these wonderfully entertaining shows from my store, or direct from my CoffeeWithDavid.com… website. Some shows will be available as instant downloads when you pay with Paypal–and naturally, there will be FREE downloads, too!
I have nearly every Lux Radio Theatre show ever made along with other collections and will be offering you these hugely entertaining shows on DVD or CD in the near future. Profits from the store and the website will offset, I hope! the costs of keeping the blog up, and in my dreams… that little trip to Jamaica!
Well… I can dream can't I?
David~
— David DeWitt
Rory Flynn's new book on Errol…
11
Mar
Rory Flynn's new book on her father Errol Flynn is out now on Amazon! Check it out here: The Baron of Mulholland: A Daughter Remembers Errol Flynn
— David DeWitt
Songs about Errol Flynn…
07
Mar
It seems that Flynn is remembered in every way imaginable not the least pleasant of ways is through music. A band from the Netherlands called Beequeen features two songs directly related to Errol–in their album “Ownliness” available through Discogs.
Tracklisting:
1 Clockwise (1:29)
2 My Wicked Wicked Ways (7:04)
3 With Anna You Get Eggroll (7:25)
4 Daad (3:06)
5 Parselmouth (5:41) Flute [Maltreated] – Vivian Breuring
6 There Are Worse Things I Could Do (2:14)
7 My Heart Belongs To Daddy (3:22)
8 Beam Ends (8:18) Cello – Feiko Halbertsma
9 (The Long And Metaphysical Journey Into) Ownliness (1:13)
Voice – Elise De Waard
Amanda Mcbroom's album “A Waiting Heart” features her moving song “Errol Flynn” available on her website amcbroom.com….
Sample the song! Errol Flynn…
— David DeWitt
Tales of Flynn
05
Mar
Here's a story I haven't shared much and it is my own and only near connection to the man …
Back in 1975, I knew and worked with a Spain-born fellow, who hung out with Sean Flynn (both being young teenagers) in Majorca in the 50's. He visited the Zaca, at one point, and related to me the following story:
The ship was at anchor, and people were generally relaxing about deck. Flynn did something kind of “unusual” in this young man's presence, that he still remembered MANY YEARS later. It seems that whenever a bathing suit clad young woman would walk by Errol, who was reclining in a deck chair, he would suddenly take his hand, palm up, and, moving the four lower fingers and thumb together and apart, together and apart, etc., follow the passing posterior while making chomping, pig grunting sounds … much to the amusement of himself and others. Part of the “appeal” of this action was that there was no indication it was about to happen, and that it was kind of startling and unexpected. And it “occurred” a number of times in my friend’s presence.
I have always found it to be such an amusing story to recall, not to mention UNIQUE – as it is something I have neither read nor heard of anywhere else, and also somehow typical of the kind of spontaneous “fun” in which Errol might engage.
— Karl
For Errol its Suits and Girls
25
Feb
from THE PROVINCE – Friday, October 9, 1959By JOHN ARNETT, Province Staff Reporter
“My future is dedicated to two things—women and litigation,” movie star Errol Flynn said at Vancouver airport Thursday evening.
“Women—well that speaks for itself, but I have been sued so often that I think I should start suing somebody else, and perhaps I should make a start with some of those scandal magazines.”
WITH STARLET
Flynn, a paunchy, greying edition of the debonair hero of Hollywood movies, was accompanied by 17-year-old Hollywood starlet Beverley Addland.
He is in Vancouver to complete the sale of his schooner “Zaca” to George Caldough, 1026 Eyremont, West Vancouver.
The actor put on spontaneous show for newsmen and some pop-eyed employees at the airport terminal. He clowned with a bowler hat for photographers and graciously kissed the hand of a woman reporter.
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Asked if he ever watched for old movies of his now enjoying a strong rebirth on late shows on television, Flynn replied:
“It just makes me feel faint to see how energetic I used to be in those days. No, I don’t often look at them.”
Chimed in his travelling companion: “Oh yes you do, and I’ve often heard you say ‘my, I used to be good looking.'”
BUSINESS DEAL
George Caldough, with whom Flynn will be staying until early next week, will pay more than $100,000 for Flynn’s 116-foot schooner.
“It’s strictly a business deal,” explained Mr. Caldough, who has sailed nothing larger than a dinghy. “I think it is a good investment.”
The schooner, reported to be the second largest privately-owned sailing boat afloat—there’s one owned by a member of the Spalding sporting goods family which is 22 feet longer, is currently moored at Majorca, a Spanish island in the Mediterranean.
— David DeWitt
FATHER TELLS OF VISIT
25
Feb
Errol went home often—got away from it all
from THE PROVINCE Newspaper – Friday, October 16, 1959
LONDON (Reuters) – Zoologist Theodore Flynn, 74, father of movie star Errol Flynn, said in an interview Thursday his son's biography “My Wicked, Wicked, Wicked Ways,” will be published despite Errol's death.
The 28,000-word manuscript purports to tell the true story of Flynn's love life.
Prof. Flynn said: “Publication will go on. The truth will be told. There is no reason now to hold anything back.”
Flynn's father said, “the world seems to have got a fantastic picture of my son. But the real truth is in this house—where he was coming inside a fortnight.
“He came here more often than people ever knew to get away from that life outside.
He would telephone, talk to his mother, and say he was coming. And he would be quiet with us—chatting to his mother and resting from the rush of his public life.
“We would try to give him the orderly regular life of a small household. He loved it so that he hardly ever went out.
“Now it's over—and I can not even go to the funeral. It's so far and I am only a professor, I cannot afford it.”
— David DeWitt
Flynn on the Paar Show…
25
Feb
Errol, telling about his Cuban exploits, looked “pretty silly” on Jack Paar's television show. July 1959 HUSH-HUSH Magazine– He carries his famous sword cane, and looks tired…
— David DeWitt
