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Archive for September, 2010

From the Errol Flynn Blog Mailbag!

28 Sep
Hello,
 
My parents live in Alaska from the early thirties to the mid
forties.  My father gave me a piece of the canvas skin of an airplane
bearing the name “Scirroco III”.  He told me that it was from an
airplane owned by Errol Flynn that had crashed in Alaska.  He happened
on the wreckage and decided to take it as a souvenir.
 
Did Errol Flynn have such an airplane? It would seem to have been a
small plane from the fact that it had a canvas skin.  If he had such a
plane, did he crash it in Alaska?
 
I would appreciate any information you might provide. 
 
Thanks,  Don

Anybody know anything about this?

— David DeWitt

 
 

John Decker

28 Sep

Guess who… hope I'm not getting on your nerves… Is there still anybody out there? Erm… hope this is not old news, I just found an interesting article about John Decker:

http://www.richardrushfield.com/deckerart.htm

Take care!

— Inga

 
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Errol in Leeds Castle

27 Sep

Sorry it's me again… I just received some interesting information from Britain.

In 2009, I visited Leeds Castle in Kent and was astonished to read that Errol had been a guest there once. No further information was supplied. Now I contacted the castle directly, and here is what they wrote:

“All we know for certain is that Errol Flynn signed the castle's guest book on 17th April 1937; sadly we are not in possession of all the guest books so we do not know if this was a one-off visit, or one of several made to the castle to stay with Sir Adrian and Lady Baillie. We have heard that he took a Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy from a litter of Lady Baillie's back to America with him, which was the first of the breed in America. But I am afraid that is about all that is known.”
 
Does anybody know why Errol was in England at that time? Any connection to Spain? Robert, our date expert? You might even supply the castle with information, I think they would be interested in finding out about their famous guest themselves…
 
Take care!
 
Inga
 
P.S. Here's the link of the castle: www.leeds-castle.com

— Inga

 
 

Weekend Watching

24 Sep

Hi everyone,

thought I'd share these links. You probably know most of the pictures already, but maybe not all of them. Enjoy!

Errol in Frankfurt:

http://ww2.stripes.com/photoday/index.php?photo=080703photoday.html

http://www.stripes.com/news/from-the-s-s-archives-bacall-package-sold-by-flynn-for-march-of-dimes-1.34269#

http://ww2.stripes.com/photoday/index.php?photo=060905photoday.html

http://ww2.stripes.com/photoday/index.php?photo=072208photoday.html

http://ww2.stripes.com/photoday/index.php?photo=090509photoday.html

Olivia in Augsburg: http://ww2.stripes.com/photoday/index.php?photo=090708photoday.html

Sean on film set: http://ww2.stripes.com/photoday/index.php?photo=090804photoday.html

Inga

P.S. I hope we get a little more active again when the holiday season is over!

 

— Inga

 
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The Young Errol: Flynn before Hollywood

13 Sep

Dear fellow Flynnanians,

I have the rare book: “The Young Errol: Flynn before Hollywood” on offer, anyone interested? You know it is a “must” read and “must” have! Come on.

— Jan

 
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Let's have some fun!

11 Sep

What caption would you write for this picture?
What is Errol or Olivia saying?
What is your impression seeing this picture?

Have fun and participate – show your humor!

— Tina

 
 

Question to the experts

09 Sep

Dear experts on the blog,

Tina and I disagree a little upon a certain picture/scene from a blooper reel from 1944. We would like to know where this scene is from. Tina thinks it is from one of the radio shows, whereas I think it could be from “Gentleman Jim”. However, it is not to be seen in my dubbed German version of this film. So maybe one of you could help us? Thank you very muc!

— Inga

 
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References in movies to relevant EF dates, places etc.

09 Sep

Hi!

Again maybe I've picked up on something that is not new and may have already been discussed but have people noticed that in “Captain Blood” when Errol is dictating his agreement with his band of men on the ship after escaping from the island the date he quotes as the day of the agreement is his birthday -20th June and then in one of the early scenes the Captain that arrests him is Captain Hobart!  I've been meaning to see if there are any more references but maybe other people have picked up on a few in other movies?

 

kind regards  Diana

— meredd31

 
 

Vote for EF films to go on DVD

06 Sep

Hi!

This maybe old news but I just realised on the TCM website you can vote for a movie to be released on dvd.  When you search for a movie title and then see the screen for the movie on the right hand side there is a column marked “homevideovote” with how many votes received.

So I have now voted on every Errol movie that is not on dvd at present and would encourage anyone to do so if they haven't already.  The only exception is I couldn't find “The Sisters”, but saw “That Forsyte Woman” has the highest vote.

I'm so hoping TCM/Warner will eventually release all remaining EF movies on dvd.  One I'm very keen on is “Cry Wolf”.

http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=3458

Would be very happy to hear if anyone knows that more are to be released?

kind regards

Diana

 

— meredd31

 
 

another try on new Errol book

05 Sep

looks like my web link didn't work so here it is

http://www.fancygoods.com.au/fancy-goods/2010/06/28/interview-boyd-anderson-on-errol-fidel-and-the-cuban-rebel-girls-a-novel-uqp/

 

 

— meredd31

 
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