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Sunday, August 24
by
David DeWitt
on Sun 24 Aug 2008 11:47 AM PDT
Thursday, August 21
by
David DeWitt
on Thu 21 Aug 2008 06:11 AM PDT
Thanks for this tip from Jack Marino... Tuesday, August 19
by
David DeWitt
on Tue 19 Aug 2008 11:22 PM PDT
Fri Aug 15, 1:11 AM ET
![]() NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Sean Flynn, an actor-turned-journalist and the son of Hollywood icon Errol Flynn, will be the subject of a big-screen biopic. While working as a photojournalist for Time, Flynn disappeared in the Cambodian jungle in 1970 and was never heard from again. Both Flynn and a CBS colleague are believed to have been captured by the Viet Cong or the Khmer Rouge. Before turning to journalism, Flynn, the only son of Errol Flynn and French actress Lili Damita, worked as an actor for several years. He appeared in a sequel to "Captain Blood," in which his father starred. Millennium and Ralph Hemecker's Mythic Pictures are developing "Flynn." Hemecker, a prolific TV writer who created the TNT movie "Witchblade," will direct; he is writing the screenplay with Perry Deane Young, who wrote the book on which the movie will be based. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter Article courtesy of Peach Sunday, August 10
by
David DeWitt
on Sun 10 Aug 2008 08:05 PM PDT
From TV.com
Errol Flynn on ARTHUR MURRAY PARTY Show Category: Variety Shows Length: 30 Minutes During its run from 1950 through 1960, Arthur Murray Party ran on all four TV networks (ABC, Dumont, CBS and NBC). Arthur Murray Role: Host Kathryn Murray Role: Hostess Episode Number: 225 Season Num: 9 Scheduled guests: Connie Francis (singer) - "Stupid Cupid." Helen Hayes (actress known as the "First Lady of the American Theatre"). Errol Flynn (actor) Anne Baxter (actress) Sydney Chaplin Aired: October 27, 1958 Anybody have this one, yet? Saturday, August 9
by
David DeWitt
on Sat 09 Aug 2008 12:11 AM PDT
If you love movies, and classic actors - you must check out Stephen Youngkin's bio of Peter Lorre! ...its extraordinary!
![]() The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre More info at PeterLorreBook.com Wednesday, August 6
by
David DeWitt
on Wed 06 Aug 2008 06:57 AM PDT
"Well The Rest Of My Life Lay In Front Of Me,
I Was Pedalling Down The Road, When I Saw Nell Gwynne And Her Oranges And I'll Have One Of Those. She Said Move Over Busker, Don't Bang Your Drum Move Over Busker, Your Time Will Come. Well I Was Hanging Around For A Miracle, Struggling With A Rhyme, When I Saw Mae West In A Sweaty Vest, And I Said I'll Come Up And See You Sometime. She Said Move Over Busker, Don't Bang Your Drum Move Over Busker, Your Time Will Come. You've Got It Coming, Come On Come On, You've Got It Coming, Coming To You. You've Got It Coming, Come On Come On, You've Got It Coming, Coming To You. Well I've Been Waiting, But I'm Impatient, No-One Can Hold Me Back, I Want To Stay With The Action. But I Won't Get It, My Great Illusion Will Vanish Anyhow If I Don't Grab It Now. Well I Was Hacking My Way Throught The Undergrowth, Juggling With My Pride, When I Saw Errol Flynn In A Tiger Skin, And I Said You Look Satisfied!! Well He Looked Down At Me From His Motor Home, And He Gave Me A Dirty Smile, He Said Well Yes I Am But She's Calling Me, Would You Excuse Us For A While Move Over Busker, Your Day Is Done. Move Over Busker, My Time Has Come. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMNPgzpQNvE Courtesy of Peach Sunday, August 3
by
David DeWitt
on Sun 03 Aug 2008 03:04 PM PDT
![]() To see the full picture uncropped click: Vintage Boxing Photo Mushy Callahan vs Errol Flynn
Thursday, July 31
by
David DeWitt
on Thu 31 Jul 2008 08:22 PM PDT
Check out the wound on Flynn's arm! Photo courtesy of Stephen Youngkin Monday, July 28
by
David DeWitt
on Mon 28 Jul 2008 08:09 PM PDT
Rex Features By Simon Reynolds, Entertainment Reporter
The Dead Calm director has agreed to steer Warner Bros's long in-development swashbuckler, which made a star of Errol Flynn. The move throws into question the fate of Tom Cruise's spy film Edwin A. Salt, which Noyce was previously in talks to helm. Captain Blood tells the story of a doctor who is convicted of treason and escapes to sea to become a pirate. Filmmakers Jonathan Hensleigh, Chuck Russell and Frank Darabont all tried in vain to get a remake off the ground in the '90s. Saturday, July 19
by
David DeWitt
on Sat 19 Jul 2008 02:15 PM PDT
Note: the ability to insert photos is back!
Wednesday, July 16
by
Robzak
on Wed 16 Jul 2008 07:09 PM PDT
A photo of the Sirocco in the Grenadines, taken for me by a friend in the late 1970s.
Enjoy! Robert more »
by
Robzak
on Wed 16 Jul 2008 07:06 PM PDT
Here are three photos from my 1983 tour of Flynn's home. How sad that it no longer exists.
Enjoy. Robert
by
Robzak
on Wed 16 Jul 2008 06:59 PM PDT
Here are three photos of the home at Bella Vista in which I lived for three years starting in December ... more »
by
Robzak
on Wed 16 Jul 2008 04:44 PM PDT
Over the years I've been fortunate to have seen fifteen Errol Flynn films on the big screen in
theaters from New York to Hollywood, some many more than once. In fact, if my memory is correct, my recent viewing of Robin Hood was my twenty~first on the big screen. And yet, somehow, I never tire of it (can anyone here relate?!). The big screen showings I've seen are: Captain Blood Charge Of The Light Brigade The Prince And The Pauper The Adventures Of Robin Hood (once with an original three~strip Technicolor print) The Dawn Patrol The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex The Sea Hawk Dive Bomber They Died With Their Boots On Gentleman Jim Uncertain Glory Objective, Burma! The Adventures Of Don Juan It's A Great Feeling In fact, the only publicly available post~Captain Blood films I've yet to see at all are: The Perfect Specimen Never Say Goodbye Escape Me Never Crossed Swords Lilacs In The Spring I'd be curious to know what you all have and haven't seen. Regards, Robert Thursday, July 10
by
David DeWitt
on Thu 10 Jul 2008 08:54 PM PDT
Photo retouched by Michael Pieper The Errol Flynn Blog is happy to announce our newest author Stephen D. Youngkin has joined the Errol Flynn Blog! Asked what brought him to his interest in the famous Swashbuckler, Stephen replied: Growing up in a small mid-western town, I had no access to old movies. Local stations must have subscribed to the smallest and most inexpensive picture packages because they aired no classics. It wasn’t until I was well along in college that I heard of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Errol Flynn et al. I caught their films on television and attended screenings (usually four-six films per star, genre, etc.) at the university and local library. It was Flynn’s films that provided the most enjoyable respite from my studies. What a break that was. There were no videos or DVDs in those days, so I studied the TV Guide for listings. An old book dealer friend (and someone who grew up with Flynn’s first showings) turned me on to My Wicked, Wicked Ways. Flynn’s autobiography, however over the top, fueled my interest in who I now think of as one of the most interesting men of the 20th century. I moved on to Beams End and Showdown, not to mention whatever bits and pieces I could pick up. There wasn’t much written about Flynn until The Films of Errol Flynn came out in 1969. Despite Thomas, Behlmer and McCarty’s pioneering work, the public perception of Flynn seemed to be rather one-dimensional, e.g. in like Flynn, etc. This disturbed me because I felt he was a much under-appreciated actor. And as much as I enjoyed his swashbuckling and western adventures, I thought his forte was comedy (and later, drama). It struck me that Flynn’s hidden depths were screaming to come to the surface in his writing, which is very good indeed. If only he’d had a better editor on Showdown, but that is another subject. (And if only he’d had the discipline to sit behind the typewriter.) I broached the idea to Earl Conrad of working on a book about the writer Flynn. We bounced it back and forth. At that time, he was working on his own memoir. Anyway, I dropped the idea. During the course of my research on The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2005), I interviewed roughly three hundred of the actor’s family, friends and co-workers. When you’ve arranged to speak with someone about a particular subject, it’s wise to stick to the point. Some interviewees, such as Vincent Sherman, were happy to talk about Flynn. Sherman gave a pretty consistent voice to his stories about Flynn and others. Still, I was glad to get to him before these anecdotes became somewhat formatted. I would like to have talked Flynn (once we had exhausted Lorre) with others, but on several occasions when I did veer off, my interviewee said, “Weren’t we here to talk about Peter Lorre?” Corralling your sources is always a challenge. In this case, I had been lassoed. Still, it was wonderful to hear fresh Flynn stories from firsthand sources. I’d like to commend Tom McNulty on a superb biography of Flynn. Nothing against MacFarland, but I think his book deserved a bigger press and a much wider distribution. It’s the definitive work and explores all aspects of Flynn’s very complex personality. Biographer Jeffrey Meyers once told me that a reader might wish a biographer was shorter, but never longer. Not true with McNulty’s work. I only wish he would coordinate The Collected Letters of Errol Flynn. What insight that would provide! Best, Stephen D. Youngkin Saturday, May 31
by
David DeWitt
on Sat 31 May 2008 02:28 PM PDT
"This new book by Bob Casey, a founder of the Errol Flynn Society of Tasmania, is due for release in June to mark the 99th anniversary of Flynn’s birth. The full-colour book has plenty of entertaining asides about Flynn’s turbulent life and times," according the book's blogsite... Check it out by clicking on the bookcover! The book is now for sale at http://www.errolflynnssword.com! Check it out! Thursday, May 29
by
Bob
on Thu 29 May 2008 09:24 PM PDT
Monday, May 19
by
David DeWitt
on Mon 19 May 2008 12:10 PM PDT
Hallo, Chums! It has been quiet here at the Errol Flynn Blog due to the illness of the Administrator - hopefully, there will be some activity in the near future. My apologies to those who come fequently to see what is going on...
David~ Admin The Errol Flynn Blog Monday, May 12
by
David DeWitt
on Mon 12 May 2008 07:53 PM PDT
FYI
Exciting news!
Saturday, April 26
by
David DeWitt
on Sat 26 Apr 2008 04:07 PM PDT
We are pleased to welcome new Author Robert Florczak to the Errol Flynn Blog! Robert tells us he has been a serious Flynn fan and collector for 35 years...
Rare Flynn with Mr. Zanuck...
Sunday, March 16
by
David DeWitt
on Sun 16 Mar 2008 08:35 AM PDT
Producer Robert de Young has just announced the release of "Tasmanian Devil: The Fast & Furious Life of Errol Flynn on DVD! Extra Features and Interview material are on the 59 minute docu including: ADDITONAL INTERVIEWS - with Christopher Lee, Rory Flynn, Beverly Aadland, Luke Flynn, Vincent Sherman Check it out here: Umbrella Entertainment The DVD Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn will be available 4/18/08 at Gameplanet Store says James McAndrew! Thanks for the Tip, James! Saturday, March 15
by
David DeWitt
on Sat 15 Mar 2008 10:40 AM PDT
Jack Marino, Independant Filmmaker Jack Marino owner and designer of the Fabulous Flynn website we all know, is an independent filmmaker in Hollywood who announced recently that his indie film FORGOTTEN HEROES is now coming out on DVD.
After 20 years of screening his film around to all the major studios and independent distributors its release on DVD marks a personal victory over the studio system that historically, he says, has portrayed the Vietnam veteran in a tragic light.
Determined to show his characters as heroes in a foreign conflict and not the stereotypical rapists, druggies and baby killers seen in most of the films dealing with the Vietnam War – Jack’s film is Pro American and is “a good old fashioned action film” in the classic mold without harsh language, and one dimensional characters.
In control of his film’s distribution after all these years – Jack Marino is taking his film on the road, and rather enjoying the attention his movie is getting. It is a new world for independent filmmakers like Jack because of the internet.
You can view the film’s trailer on Utube at: http://www.youtube.com/user/jackma152
TV talk shows and radio programs are taking notice of his movie’s release and CBS Studios invited Jack to attend a “Celebrity Show for the Stars” on their backlot recently where Gunsmoke was filmed. The show is upcoming May 17-18. You can meet Jack along with 100 celebrities who will be attending and even get a chance to purchase a copy of FORGOTTEN HEROES from Jack himself with a personalized autograph on the DVD!
$5.00 of each DVD sale of FORGOTTEN HEROES will go to the VERTERANS DISABLED FOR LIFE MEMORIAL FUND from his appearances and from any purchase made from his websites:
www.forgottenheroesthemovie.com
http://www.myspace.com:80/forgottenheroesthemovie
Jack says he will personally autograph any DVD bought from his websites as well if you just post a note when you make your purchase.
Jack Marino was a personal friend of legendary movie director Vincent Sherman late in Sherman’s life. Of Jack’s work on FORGOTTEN HEROES Vince Sherman said that he felt Jack would have been given a contract to direct films from Jack Warner. “This was the best compliment I have ever received,” Jack said.
Jack Marino is having a hell of a lot of fun and is enjoying every minute of it. Sunday, February 3
by
Shamrock
on Sun 03 Feb 2008 05:38 PM PST
This photograph was taken on the set of “Solomon and Unfortunately, Tyrone Power shares with Errol Flynn the distinction of having been smeared after his death. Regarding Power’s alleged homosexuality, I defer to actor Jack Elam who knew Power as well as anyone. When I brought up these allegations in my interview with Saturday, February 2
by
David DeWitt
on Sat 02 Feb 2008 09:35 PM PST
Sakeenah Johnson at Turner Entertainment Networks contacted our blog and asked if we'd like to put a TCM Video Box on the blog for folks to enjoy some clips from their 31 Days of Oscar - unfortunately, we cannot embed the code here BUT we can at the website side of the Errol Flynn Blog at coffeewithdavid.com. Therefore, Chums go here to see the Video Box and enjoy a few classic clips! You'll notice Captain Blood right in the middle of the player! Just click it anywhere to activate it - then sellect your clip and enjoy!
Tuesday, January 29
by
David DeWitt
on Tue 29 Jan 2008 07:25 AM PST
Photo by Malum Nalu Tuesday, January 22
by
David DeWitt
on Tue 22 Jan 2008 07:13 PM PST
"Is that you, David Bret?" The author of CLARK GABLE: TORMENTED STAR, caught recently in a private moment." The same author who wrote Errol Flynn: Satan's Angel is at it again trashing another iconic star who can't rise from the grave to defend himself... The Review:
A well-known definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over, yet all the while expecting a different result. Well, David Bret, British chronicler of such celebrity lives as Valentino, Morrissey, Elvis, Errol Flynn, Joan Crawford, and Edith Piaf, has done it again. As in Camus' famous essay on the myth of Sisyphus, he's pushed the rock all the way to the summit of the mountain, only to have it stop, teeter, and then roll back down to the bottom, crushing him along the way. Once again, despite all his attempts to win some sort of respectability, he has provided the world with yet another model of how not to go about writing a biography. He seems to think that by continually assailing the book stalls with questionable attempts at recreating past lives, he may yet acquire, by sheer attrition, a favourable reputation. All of which means that if you are a serious-minded person who wants to discover something about a major film star of the past, buy CLARK GABLE: TORMENTED STAR at your own peril. You will learn almost nothing about William Clark Gable, figure of Hollywood history, but everything about David Bret, frustrated celebrity hanger-on and would-be literary mover and shaker. In this case there will be some moving and shaking, but it will be the moving and shaking of the reader's head in disgust, followed by its removal to the nearest toilet for vomiting. Okay, at least the second part is true. Nobody has yet - for good reason - had the audacity to claim that Hollywood man's man Clark Gable, at the beginning of his film career, was a male prostitute, and that he had numerous prolonged affairs with men. The first part, however, is patently misleading. CLARK GABLE: TORMENTED STAR is a tired rehash of material from other books and fan magazines, mangled by Mr. Bret's personal proclivities, and peppered with his trademark salacious tidbits of sexual shock-talk. And if the book draws upon any material that's "unpublished," it's only unpublished because Mr. Bret has just recently thought it up. Monday, January 21
by
David DeWitt
on Mon 21 Jan 2008 06:02 PM PST
Thanks to the most Excellent Gentleman, Karl - Skipper of the good Yahoo ship, Zaca - we can listen to the Top 100 Songs of the day during the Golden Years of Pop Music! Click on any year from 1950 to 1984 to listen to random play of the most popular songs of that year... just play these wonderful old classic songs in the backround and keep surfin' Dudes!
Wednesday, December 26
by
Becky
on Wed 26 Dec 2007 06:15 PM PST
This very nice article about the recent Korngold resurgence surfaced on Yahoo! News today. I thought you all might enjoy! Happy New Year to all, Becky 'Hollywood Sound' composer gets his due By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press WriterWed Dec 26, 4:31 PM ET Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart ... Korngold? Countless millions have at least heard of the classical masters associated with Vienna. Not only the titanic trio of Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johannes Brahms viewed the city at some point as their musical home. So did Anton Bruckner, Joseph Haydn, Gustav Mahler and Franz Schubert. But a half century after his death, mention of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, another great musical son of Vienna, often draws blank stares here and elsewhere — despite his legacy as the founder of the "Hollywood Sound." But in a small way, this year has been Korngold's moment in a Vienna that is still recovering from the marathon musical and marketing excesses of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth in 2006. The city's Jewish Museum is devoting a major exhibition to the man whose classical career fell victim to a triple whammy — a domineering music critic father, the advent of atonal music, and finally, the rise of Hitler that perpetuated his self-exile to the U.S. A sampling of his famed film scores was performed for the first time last month in one of the Austrian capital's prestigious concert halls. And a film retrospective was dedicated to the Vienna's musical "Wunderkind" of the early 20th century who, neglected at home, morphed into the creator of the Hollywood soundtracks that continue to set the standard. It's a tribute that may be 50 years late: Only a handful of his classical works remain popular. But Korngold has established a huge musical niche — and won two Oscars — through nine works for film. They include genre-creating swashbucklers for Warner Brothers like "Captain Blood" (1935) and "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938), in the lush operatic style that initially made his name. Korngold himself saw no difference between his classical and screen writing, declaring: "Even if I wanted to, I could not write music below my own standards." He called his screen music "operas without singing," and experts consider his film compositions on par with much the world of "serious music" has to offer. "Like Mozart, he wrote," says composer and arranger John Mauceri. "It didn't matter whether he wrote a concert, an opera, or light entertainment, he wrote the highest quality music." His symphonic creations for the screen — and those of successors following in his footsteps — have been enjoyed by millions more attuned to melodies from "Lord of the Rings' than Ludwig van's "Fifth." And some of Hollywood's greatest screenwriters freely acknowledge the debt their industry owes the man who, while lionized by the movie moguls, suffered from the perception that his music was not taken seriously in Vienna. "Anyone who works with music and film feels part of this historical line — the golden years of what became known as the 'Hollywood Sound,'" said Howard Shore, whose credits include scoring Tolkien's "Ring." Even now, "the compositional ideas" of writing music for film derive from Korngold and his contemporaries, the Oscar and Grammy winner told The Associated Press. Mauceri, founder of Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and chancellor of the North Carolina School of the Arts, calls Korngold's musical legacy "so important they tend to dominate our conversation" about the history of music in cinema. "Millions of people ... heard his music through the medium of film," said Mauceri, who conducted the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna in a Nov. 29 death-day retrospective of Korngold works and contemporary film music at the city's art deco Konzerthaus. "When you hear 'Harry Potter,' and 'Star Wars' — that's something Vienna can be proud of," he said. And yet Korngold viewed his legacy as a tragic mistake — the result of a promising "classical" career gone awry. Recognized by age 10 as a musical prodigy, Korngold logged his share of early operatic and symphonic successes. As one of the last proponents of sweeping German romanticism, he was at one point the most performed German-speaking composer of his era. By the time he was in his 30s, his works were played by some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, and his most popular opera, "Die Tote Stadt," was staged by dozens of major houses, including the Met in New York. But with the rise of Arnold Schoenberg and other masters of atonality, detractors increasingly found his lush and sweeping melodies out of date. Adding to his woes were the victims of his father, Julius, one of Europe's most influential music critics of the day. Soloists and conductors savaged by Julius took their revenge on Erich, refusing to perform his works. Sensitive and withdrawn, the younger Korngold retreated into the world of operetta, focusing on arrangements and adaptations that would soon be reflected in his Hollywood era. His first trip to Hollywood was in 1934, to work with Max Reinhardt on the film classic "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Hitler annexed Austria four years later while Korngold was visiting the U.S. As a Jew, Korngold was unable to return home. But the composer steeped in Old World traditions never stopped yearning for his musical and emotional roots — and for the city and continent that rejected him well past the Hitler era. Still, Mauceri feels Vienna has made amends. "There is a willingness (there) to accept that he is part of Vienna's culture," he said. "What is significant is that 50 years after his death, Vienna is ready to reconsider his assessment of him." Copyright © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. Sunday, December 23
by
David DeWitt
on Sun 23 Dec 2007 04:55 PM PST
Sunday, December 9
by
David DeWitt
on Sun 09 Dec 2007 04:32 PM PST
Now on eBay! Flynn seen at his ranch during the filming of The Sea Hawk with two new arrivals: the Kid was recently born and the pup is one of the first litter of Rhodesion Lion Hounds ever born in America!
Thursday, December 6
by
David DeWitt
on Thu 06 Dec 2007 09:58 PM PST
Here are some captures from Don Juan for yer desktops, Mates!
Thursday, November 22
by
David DeWitt
on Thu 22 Nov 2007 03:07 PM PST
Thursday, November 15
by
David DeWitt
on Thu 15 Nov 2007 05:17 PM PST
Check out the review's of Tom McNulty's book on Amazon.com...
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