Monthly Archives: April 2017

The Gamblers!

An EFB Four Score News Report: Wouldn’t this have been wunderbar! Dostoyevsky: Directed by Max Reinhardt! Starring Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Edward G. Robinson and Basil Rathbone!!!! A LITTLE FROM LOTS Film Daily – Ralph Wilk – April 30, 1947 Feodor Dostoievsky’s celebrated novel, The Gamblers will be directed for Warners by Max Reinhardt with a stellar cast including Edward G.… (more…)

Four Score Ago — 4/29/1937 — Deuce

Los Angeles Evening Herald Express Jimmy Starr – April 29, 1937 Already ranked as one of the movie village’s tennis greats, Gilbert Roland took it upon himself to name Hollywood’s 10 best racquet wielders. On the set of Paramount’s The Last Train from Madrid, Gilbert put Garbo in the top spot among feminine tennis players, while Errol Flynn equals her… (more…)

What Did He Say?

What did Errol say when he first saw this chandelier? Where and to whom did he say it?? Added April 28, AM EST Added April 28, PM EST — Tim

News from New Zealand

Errol helps save south South Island from broken bottles, monkey parades, idle, dissolute and aimlessly wandering youths. from THE SOUTHLAND TIMES (April 2017) “Movie Screening” “The first Sunday movie screening in Invercargill was in February 1910 when there was a “cinematograph entertainment” on a Sunday to aid the hospital fund. After lying low for many years the issue arose again… (more…)

Ace and a mole

Dear fellow Flynn fans, here is an aerial overview of the life of Jackson Barrett Mahon, the personal pilot and movie manager of Errol in later years. Barely twenty years old Barry joined the Royal Air Force in Great Britain as a volunteer before the United States had even entered WWII. He was assigned to the 121 “Eagle” Squadron and… (more…)

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In what way did this symbol once connect to something Errol once considered doing, but never did? — Tim

Eighty Years Ago — 4/17/1937 — The Producers

Los Angeles Evening Herald Express – Jimmy Starr – April 17, 1937 Hollywood is full of producers. The actual producers of films seen on the country’s screens are unknown to the movie fans. The producers of the films which are never seen in theaters are world famous. The latest Hollywood paradox involves the growing fad of 16mm motion pictures. Inspired… (more…)

Four Score Years Ago — 4/15/1937 — Barcelona

Hollywood Citizen News – Elizabeth Yeaman – April 15, 1937 The Hollywood Reporter today carries a remarkable story titled “Barcelona Greets Errol Flynn.” The story carries a Barcelona date line, but there is no indication of the actual source of the interview. I quote it in part: “When Errol Flynn arrived in Barcelona he was greeted by the commissioner of… (more…)

Eighty Years Ago — 4/13/1937 — Queen Mary

Hollywood Citizen News Elizabeth Yeaman April 13, 1937 Errol Flynn cables Warners that he will sail aboard the Queen Mary Friday, and will report as soon as possible for his picture, The Perfect Specimen, with Miriam Hopkins. Then he may exhibit his battle scars, if any, to back up his tales about seeing action on the Spanish front. www.queenmarystory.com…… —… (more…)

How to make an Errol Flynn

O to be in England, now that April’s there. I doubt Errol yearned his living like Browning, but for once Browning would be right as it is presently 7pm, 25 degrees (about 76 F) and ne’ry a cloud in the sky. This turns a girl’s thoughts to cocktails. When Errol and Pat were in Rome in the 50s they met… (more…)

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