Monthly Archives: February 2018

Mail Bag! Errol Flynn & James Dean! James Turiello’s new Book!

David; Good morning my new book James Dean : The Quest for an Oscar has been released on Amazon, Barnes & Noble Etc. The good news there is a full chapter about our hero Errol Flynn, complete with many photos of Errol that are one of a kind. The Jai-Alai one with Errol holding a Jai- Alai cesta is probably… (more…)

’56 Errol: A Charming Rogue

February 27, 1956 (62 years ago today) San Bernardino Sun THE DAILY SUN ON THE HOLLYWOOD BEAT Errol Flynn, ‘Charming Rogue’, Denies Reports By JAMES BACON HOLLYWOOD Errol Flynn, a charming rogue who never has pretended to be anything else, wants to debunk all those reports that he has reformed. Since his return to Hollywood, after more than four years… (more…)

Winter Olympic Medalist Freddie McEvoy

“I found that he complemented me. He was an athlete, a roisterer like myself, and he could be canny too, very. He had his eye for the main chance.” — Errol Flynn MWWW www.smh.com…… — Tim

Nanette Fabray, dies at 97!

  Costarred with Dame Olivia deHavilland in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. She enjoyed a long and distinguished career in film, television and on stage. — David DeWitt

The Olympiads

aka The Bundy Drive Boys and Hollywood Hellfire Club John Barrymore John Carradine John Decker W.C. Fields Errol Gene Fowler Will Fowler Sadahichi Hartmann Ben Hecht Norman Kerry Thomas Mitchell Alan Mowbray Vincent Price Anthony Quinn Roland Young — Tim

White House matinee idol

Dear fellow Flynn fans, although absent in this picture of the Who’s Who of Hollywood on the lawn of the US presidential palace, Errol did attend often. Even after his untimely death. How? Both presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronnie Reagan loved to show movies to a selected collection of guests. And Flynn was there in spirit as well as on… (more…)

Tribute to Tony Thomas

Reminded recently by Jack Marino of his friend, Tony Thomas’s, preeminent contributions to the history of Flynn here is a recollection of his great work: THE FILMS OF ERROL FLYNN “This book is a complete record of Errol Flynn’s career from his first starring role in Captain Blood until his untimely death at fifty. All of his 58 films are… (more…)

Hail to the Chiefs

A Presidents Day Tribute — Tim

In should’ve been Flynn 14

Dear fellow Flynn fans, this is another possible missing masterpiece in Errol’s filmography due to a one punch (rather a rum punch) tussle with Canadian millionaire Duncan McMartin at the Windsor Hotel on the Bahamas. Our Hollywood hero would forever claim that his old back injury backfired on him and therefore he had to renounce the role of Albion Hamlin,… (more…)

Going Postal. A Quiz.

The fellows in these fine photos were reported to have endorsed a letter together in the Forties which gained a great deal of national attention. What was the content, purpose, and possible postal controversy of that letter? — Tim

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