Monthly Archives: May 2020

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND REMEMBRANCE TO SEAN LESLIE FLYNN

— ILIKEFLYNN

T minus 22 /// \\\ T minus 33

T minus 22 Today is 22 days till the Errol Flynn Global Toast on June 20, 2020, the 111th Anniversary of Errol’s birth. A Global Birthday Toast to Errol For all those lookin’ to drink like Flynn for this event, here is a post that details dozens of liquid refreshments Errol is known to have enjoyed at various locations throughout… (more…)

Announcement of USO Tour — May 30, 1951

CANBERRA TIMES – MAY 30, 1951 — Tim

Friday, May 29 Quiz — What was It? Who was It?

He was in love with a famous swinger … There was a lot of drinking and skullduggery involved … And some weekend fun up at the Farm … Alas, but not least, you know him well — Tim

The Greatest Symphonic Film Composer of All Time — Erich Wolfgang Korngold — Born May 29, 1892

… Freedom: Magnificence on the Mersey … … Pioneering and Still-Unparalleled Compositional Precision youtu.be/A7DCG2nnMvU… The Greatness and Legacy of Erich Wolfgang Korngold — Tim

Flynn Floats an Idea

TIME Magazine: May 29, 1944 People: Ideas Errol Flynn, well-known Hollywood yachtsman, had a new idea about boats, considered converting a sloop into a floating aquarium. — Tim

Errol Leaves India for Africa — May 28, 1933

After a side-splitting incident with a rickshaw boy on the island of Ceylon, Errol left with Erben for the mainland French Colony of Pondicherry. From Pondicherry they traveled an intolerably slow and hot five days on a train “jammed” with “Untouchables”, up the east coast of India to Calcutta, where they witnessed a ~ “dizzying spectacle of temples, beggary, dung… (more…)

S.H sara Hamilton

Million dollar question We know that Sara Hamilton Photoplay culumnist was a friend of Errol. But do we know more? A photo of her? Age. When did she pass? — Selene Hutchison-Zuffi

“Voyage of Discovery” — Asia to Ceylon

According to My Wicked, Wicked Ways … Following their escapades in Asia, Errol and Erben sailed on the French ship D’Artagnon*, through the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal, toward India. On this “voyage of discovery”, as he later described it to his father, Errol became enamored with a beautiful half-Swiss, half Japanese, young woman name named Myako. She was… (more…)

In Father’s Footsteps — May 27, 1961

Sean Flynn Chip Off Old Block — Tim