A wonderful movie, with a magnificent opening (featuring Errol’s friend, Nat King Cole), featuring “Alan Swann/Errol Flynn” (“The Greatest Movie Star of All Time”). King Keyser/Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, and Jimmy Hoffa.
MY FAVORITE YEAR, from left: Peter O’Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, 1982. ©MGM
P.S. That’s John Lennon’s apartment at The Dakota between “Errol” and “Mel Brooks”.
— Tim
I believe this movie was based in part on Flynn’s appearance on The Martha Raye Show featuring a swashbuckling sequence that clearly wore Flynn out but the audience loved …
Karl Holmberg sends us his well researched tome on this subject!
Originally “penned” back in 2006, it stands as a product of all that could be gathered from the then sources at hand. I have updated the footnotes as best I could for anyone who would care to follow up on the links.
All the best ol’ chum!
Karl
Thanks, Karl!
www.theerrolflynnblog.com…
Thank you, Karl! That is absolutely wonderful research and writing!! A Grand Slam – phenomenally fun, new, educational and creative!!!! Magnificent.
Btw, I was in Miami Beach today, down by the old location of Martha Ray’s 5 O’Clock Club, right near the original Wolfie’s. Errol was it’s most famous customer (as he was everywhere he went.)
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Great movie! See it if you have a chance to see it.
Peter O’Toole is great in this wonderful parody.
Quite the leprechaun, but he paid his dues from a very young lad! “It may sound funny to you, but when the light hits me a certain way, I’m handsome!”
Peter O’Toole in a certain light!
Mr. O’Toole did a great job portraying Errol, but I lived in the South Pacific for a year when I was 21, and had a fantastic time reliving Mr. Flynn’s life, after reading “My Wicked, Wicked Ways ” at age 18, by the time I had left, I had 3 wives, and the sermons of at least two men of GOD being preached about me! I did repent and only married two women in the states, and divorced two; but the fun I had.
A kindred spirit, no doubt! :-)