Monthly Archives: November 2018

History’s Best Boating Outfits

Aussie born Errol Flynn went on to become a massive movie star in America during the 1930’s and is best known for portraying Robin Hood in The Adventures Of Robin Hood. The flamboyant Flynn was known as a womanising, heavy drinking smoker who was married three times Despite only wearing a pair of lightly coloured shorts and vintage sunglasses, Flynn… (more…)

First Time in Paris? — L’intrigue se Corse

THIRD WEEK OF NOVEMBER, 1936 EVENING HERALD EXPRESS HARRISON CARROLL You Asked Me and I’m Telling You! [Question from] Ada Hefflin, Chicago: Errol Flynn first met Lili Damita at a party in Paris and they met again on shipboard coming to this country. But the third time was the charm. Lili was lunching with Dolores Del Rio at the Warners… (more…)

Jack Marino shares a Special Photo …

  Signed, and dedicated to Rory! Thanks for sharing, Jack! — David DeWitt

Mail Bag! Hotel Belmar: The Ghost Has the Key!

Thank you David: I look forward to sharing your remembrances and tributes. I have finished my book Hotel Belmar: The Ghost Has the Key.  amzn.to/2pOpoMI … . After reading Errol’s book and Send in the Empty Horses by David Niven, while talking to locals who told of Errol’spresence here in the Belmar, the strange happenings in the area where his room was, and his colorful episodes… (more…)

Lucey’s

THIRD WEEK OF NOVEMBER, 1936 LOUELLA O. PARSONS LOS ANGELES EXAMINER Errol Flynn and Lili Damita talking things over at Lucey’s Cafe. — Lucey’s Restaurant (aka Cafe?) was at 5444 Melrose Avenue, across the street from Paramount. — Tim

GOlivia Go!

deadline-com.cdn.ampproject.org…… In a statement from her home in Paris, Dame Olivia said: “We must persevere and speak truth to power.” “The fight is itself important to the principle of honesty, so much in need today in the face of deliberate public confusion for selfish agendas.” The question presented for Supreme Court review is: “Are reckless or knowing false statements about… (more…)

Errol Leads the Way

Flynn’s Robin Hood the template for all the rest, and still the best … fandom.wikia.com……   — Philip

Rita on the Zaca

PHOTO FROM “NOVEMBER 23, 1946” www.gettyimages.com…… P.S. Rita turned 100 this year! Thank you, Rita, for all the beauty, talent, joy and love you brought the world! — Tim

NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP OH LOOK, ANOTHER TERRIBLE ROBIN HOOD MOVIE

Robin Hood famously “stole from the rich to give to the poor.” Odd, since that’s pretty much the inverse of what Hollywood’s many adaptations of the Robin Hood legend have done: take moviegoers’ hard-earned cash every few years, and in exchange give us very bad Robin Hood movies. The rich get richer; the rest of us get “Robin Hood, but… (more…)

Thanksgiving 1938

EVENING HERALD EXPRESS HARRISON CARROLL Errol Flynn’s Thanksgiving Present from Lili Damita was a long distance call from Paris. It was collect and cost $73. — P. S. Though it wasn’t Lili, nor connected in any way to her Turkey Day call from 1938 Paree, here’s an interesting photo of an American woman using a mobile phone that very same… (more…)

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