The Errol Flynn Blog

Lovely comments, all. She lived much longer than most and certainly had a full life both professionally and personally, but it’s still somehow hard to believe she’s gone.

It’s a cliche but true, she was the last star from the 1930s, the last link to the golden age of Hollywood. Here’s another good tribute to her life and career: www.hollywoodreporter.com…

A bit of trivia on a humorous note and for those who are fans of the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon show from decades past … One of their stories was “The Ruby Yacht Of Omar Khayyam” (a takeoff on The Rubaiyat By Omar Khayyam, which I must confess I initially only heard of through Rocky & Bullwinkle). At one point, Bullwinkle is about to be thrown into the cobra pit (just what it sounds like, a pit containing snakes), but Rocky saves him. Just as Bullwinkle starts to walks away, he returns to the pit and says, “goodbye, Olivia.” That’s a reference to Olivia’s movie, The Snake Pit, a then-groundbreaking film about mental illness and treatment. I haven’t seen that movie in eons, but as I recall, her character dreams or feels like she’s being lowered into a pit filled with snakes. Anyway, I’ve always thought that was a pretty impressive bit in a show for children that also was aimed at adults. The entire story can be viewed at www.youtube.com… — start at around 20:10 to see the reference to Olivia (it’s a few seconds later).