My Wicked Wicked Ways
Washington Post Review
January 20, 1985
The story out of Hollywood is that they sorted through more than 400 resumes looking for someone to play Errol Flynn. Some were familiar names, most were not. Which was fine, since the producers wanted a face that was both fresh and familiar — fresh to the American television audience but familiar in its resemblance to Flynn’s.
Out of the stack emerged Duncan Regehr.
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— Tim
Was he Errol’s son?
All evidence and opinions welcome….
— Tim
It’s been reported that Errol had a daughter before he married Tiger Lil’. What was her name, who was her mother, and where was she born????
An island named after this island was involved…
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Her first name means “Lily” in Hebrew…
(This clue added Sunday morning, 8am, January 17, 2021)
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Her mother was from an island named on this map.
(This clue added Sunday morning, 9am, January 17, 2021)
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Humming this will help yield her name…
It’s by one of America’s greatest songwriters…
(This clue added Sunday morning, 11:48 am, January 17, 2021)
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The mother was from Selapiu Island, near New Hanover Island. (See the map above)
After the birth of the daughter, she went to Ranmalek Mission and disappeared during World War II.
(This above set of clues added Sunday evening, 6:30 pm, January 17, 2021)
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A man named Wilkie Wilkin is said to have cared for the mother and daughter at a copra plantation, apparently beginning after Errol left for England. He is thought to have been captured at Albatross Passage by the Japanese following their famous air raids on PNG during January 1942. His name is on the plaque above. …It is not nown to me, nor clear from the accounts I read, that Errol ever knew of the pregnancy, never mind that it allegedly resulted in a daughter.
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The daughter, _________, was said to have strikingly stood out in PNG because of her complexion and beauty.
(This above set of set of clues added Sunday evening, 6:45 pm, January 17, 2021)
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Years ago, super Flynn-researcher Tina Nyary published the below image, stating “Here is an image of what most likely could have been Tuperselai”. I am not certain, but, if Errol did have a daughter in PNG, there’s a good chance the mother would have been Tuperselai, who he very highly praises in MWWW:
(This above photo was added Tuesday morning, 11am, January 19, 2021)
— Tim
January 15, 1937
Harrison Carroll
LA Evening Herald Express
Lili Damita and Errol Flynn dining at the Hollywood Brown Derby together on the day one had them separated.
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“The Hollywood Brown Derby opened on Valentine’s Day 1929 at 1628 North Vine Street played a great part in Hollywood history. Due to its proximity to movie studios, it became the place to do deals and be seen. Clark Gable is said to have proposed to Carole Lombard there. Rival gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper are recorded as regular patrons.”
“The rendezvous of the stars, the Brown Derby, Hollywood, California. The famed Brown Derby on Vine Street, Hollywood, with its adjacent distinctive Bamboo Room, is the acknowledged center of the smart social life of the movie colony.”
P.S. Flynn Fans!
“The building’s architect, Carl Jules Weyl, later became a noted art director and went on to win an Academy Award for art direction on the classic 1938 Errol Flynn-Olivia de Havilland film, “The Adventures of Robin Hood.”
— Tim
In late 1956 Errol Flynn went to pre-Castro’s Havana, Cuba to film “The Big Boodle” (1957) with Universal studios’ starlet Gia Scala, on loan to United Artists. In the absolutely fascinating but often heart-breaking book “Gia Scala: The First Gia” written by her loving sister Tina Scala, an incident occurred near the end of filming. Gia was a guest on Flynn’s two-mast schooner “The Zaca”, and enjoyed every minute of it. Flynn learned from Gia and Tina that their mother was dying from terminal Cancer. All her life their mother had dreamed of sailing to Hawaii. When Flynn heard this he said “Say no more.” Errol Flynn then sent Gia and Tina to sail on the Zaca with a full crew to take her mother to Hawaii! Flynn insisted on picking up the entire cost of this journey which was a dream come true for their mother who loved the entire voyage. She later died at peace. Gia Scala and Tina were eternally grateful to Errol Flynn. Tina also writes that it was common knowledge that gorgeous movie stars who took private cruises on the Zaca were seduced by Errol Flynn! Tina said “I never asked Gia, and besides she would never tell me anyway!”
— Ralph Schiller
The Waldo is in Waldoboro, on Main Street in Maine, of course….
The Waldo Theatre is a historic movie theater and performance venue at 916 Main Street in Waldoboro, Maine. Built in 1936 as a movie theater to a design by New York City architect Benjamin Schlanger, it was hailed at the time as one of the best-designed state-of-the-art small theaters in the country. It is now managed by a non-profit arts organization. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
January 12, 1939 – Movie at the Waldo
Virtual Concert at the Waldo, Tonight at 7, January 14, 2021
— Tim
January 13, 1939
Star-Studded Traffic Trial in Beverly Hills
LA Evening Herald Examiner
It will look like a roll call of Hollywood male stars in PoliceJudge Charles J. Griffin’s Beverly Hills court late today.
The occasion will be the hit-run driving trial of John W. Myers, former owner of the La Conga, Hollywood night spot.
Among those who have been subpoened as witnesses in behalf of Meyers are Errol Flynn, Bruce Cabot and Walter Pidgeon, all of whom either saw the accident or talked to Myers immediately after it occurred, according to attorney Richard Cantillon, representing Meyers.
Meyers is charged with having fled the scene of an accident involving his automobile and another car driven by George v. Tribe.
Tribe’s wife, Darlene, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Thorpe, all were seriously injured in the accident, it is charged.
— Tim
January 12, 1939
Evening Herald Examiner
Navy Officers, Stars at Film Preview
Wings of the Navy
Film personages attending include: George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, Bette Davis, Paul Muni, Pat O’Brien, Jane Wyman, Ann Sheridan, John Garfield, Errol Flynn. Priscilla Lane, Irene Dunne, Gary Cooper, Mary Pickford, Walt Disney, Spencer Tracy, Francisca Gall, Frank Borzage, Reginald Gardiner, and many Navy Officers.
— Tim
Former Vietnam War journalist Carl Robinson, a close friend of Sean Flynn, writes his recollections of time spent with both Sean and John Steinbeck’s son, also a journalist, in Vietnam.
‘The Bite of the Lotus: an intimate memoir of the Vietnam War’ by Carl Robinson. Published by Wilkinson Publishing. An American, Carl Robinson settled in Australia in 1978 with his Vietnamese wife Kim-Dung. An extract was published in The Australian Financial Review … makes for a great read … linked here:
www.afr.com…
And an interview with Carl about the book from the ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Commission) with the inimitable Philip Adams: www.abc.net…
— Philip
With connection to tonight’s National Championship Game in Miami Gardens…
Errol Flynn and Alabama Football
— Tim
