– October 1, 1941
– LA Daily Mirror
— Tim
Archive for September, 2020
Fame Around the Corner — A Promising Australian
30
Sep
Publicity photo of Errol circa his filming of Murder at Monte Carlo at Teddington Studio in London.
September 30, 1935
The Argus – Melbourne, Australia
“The day of Errol Flynn is bound to arrive sooner or later, for he has ability and a debonair charm of manner that must win him recognition as a light comedian of no mean order.”
— Tim
The Baron Plays The Duke — Errol’s Last Live Show
29
Sep
September 29, 1959
The Red Skelton Show
Filmed at (CBS) Television City, at the famed Studio 33, the home of the Red Skelton Hour and Show, the Carol Burnett Show, I Love Mama, the Mary Tyler Moore Hour, the Price is Right, Match Game, Hollywood Squares, the Steve Allen Comedy Hour, and many, many others. With it’s massive studios, and other favorable conditions, Television City very powerfully signalled and helped make possible the relocation of television’s epicenter from New York to LA.
~ “Red Skelton portrays hobo Freddie the Freeloader and Flynn his friend, “the Duke.” After a group of beatniks, including Beverly Aadland, mistakes Freddie’s shack for a coffee bar, Freddie is informed by a policeman that all bums have been ordered by the city council to leave town by sundown. Freddie and the Duke decide that the only way they will be able to stay in town is to open their own beatnik coffee bar. Singer Scott Engel (who later went on to fame as Scott Walker of the Walker Brothers) sings Paper doll.”
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— Tim
Flynn Being Flynn
28
Sep
September 28, 1935
Harrison Carroll
One of the years strangest sites in Hollywood may be Errol Flynn acting in the story of his own life.
The new Warner Brothers’ discovery, who’s also the husband of Lili Damita, wants to put the story of his adventures into a scenario and, if the studio accepts it, to play the leading role himself.
Flynn could start the story in 1928 when he boxed for Ireland in the Olympic Games in Amsterdam. He’d include his experiences as a member of the British constabulary in New Guinea, his discovery of gold in the savage infested country, his operations as a skipper of a trading ship in the South Pacific, and his near death in a typhoon.
The young Irish actor, who’ll make his big did for fame in Captain Blood, would collaborate on the scenario with an experienced Hollywood writer.
If the story is carried on to Flynn’s arrival in Hollywood, conceivably, his romance with Lili Damita may be included.
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Starting with his time on the Irish Olympic Boxing team might have proven a one-round knockout:
Flynn on Sirocco may have been better place to start, leaving out Amsterdam altogether:
Few men have ever survived adventures like those Errol experienced in New Guinea.
Only unholy matrimony with Lili Dynamita was more perilous.
Here she is, the ultimate Miss Adventure herself, Tiger ‘Lil,
Pre-Code in ’34, and post-Flynn in a few misadventurous years more:
— Tim
Errol’s Last Adventure? — In Majorca? – ¿De Verdad?
27
Sep
A New documentary about Errol’s years in Majorca, featuring Michael Douglas, et al
Alucinante haber conseguido la colaboración de Michael Douglas… Un lujo participar en esta aventura con @roseramills @josemmaiz @BackstageProdu @IB3 pic.twitter.com…
— Tirso Calero (@TirsoCalero) September 22, 2020
Diana Dill in 1943, six months before she married Kirk Douglas. I believe Errol dated her in 1942.
— Tim
On the Set of the Edge
27
Sep
September 26, 1942
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Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!
Out at Warners, on the Edge of Darkness set, they are shooting another war story. The scene is a church in occupied Norway. But the villagers are not listening to a sermon. They are hearing reports of Nazi terrorism.
Up on the pulpit is the minister, Richard Fraser. In the congregation are Walter Huston, Ann Sheridan, Errol Flynn, Monte Blue and most of the cast of the picture.
Edge of Darkness is heavy drama. When director Lewis Milestone gets shot, however, the players relax, sit around the set and converse in ordinary Hollywood manner.
Today Ann Sheridan is jittery because she is trying to cut down on cigarettes. She’s allowing herself one every hour, on the hour.
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Smokin’ Annie, “on the hour” with Errol, between nicotine fits on the set of the Edge:
Looks like Annie was well off the wagon after the war, smoking away as the notorious Nora Prentiss:
— Tim
It’s Twynns!
26
Sep
September 26, 1935
Harrison Carroll
LA Evening Herald Express
Lili Damita and Errol Flynn already have had twins named after them.
The papa is Louis Verdi, an extra on the Captain Blood set
— Tim
Not Bad At All!
25
Sep
September 25, 1942
Louella O. Parsons
Los Angeles Times
A barbershop quartet, consisting of Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Nancy Coleman and Monte Blue, have offered their services to the victory committee. Maybe it’s not as bad as it sounds.
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And, last but definitely not least, Awesome Annie Sheridan, a very lucky star friend of Errol’s.
Singers aren’t born, they’re made.
— Tim
Travelin’ to the End — September 24, 1956 and September 24, 1959
24
Sep
New York Times – September 24, 1956
PALMA, Mallorca, Sept. 23 (UP)–Errol Flynn, film actor, has undergone surgery of an undisclosed nature on the island of Ibiza. The reports said Mr. Flynn arrived Thursday at Ibiza, one of the Balearic islands in the western Mediterranean, aboard his yacht Zaca. His wife, the former Patricia Wymore, was with him.
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Errol Arrives at Vancouver Airport – “September 24”, 1959
— Tim
Juliette Greco dies aged 93
24
Sep
PARIS: Legendary French singer Juliette Greco has died aged 93 after a career spanning over half a century, her family told AFP.
“Juliette Greco died this Wednesday surrounded by her family in the house she loved so much. Her life was one like no other,” her family said in a statement.
“She was still making French songs shine at the age of 89” when her career was ended by a stroke, it added.
“I miss it terribly. My reason for living is to sing! To sing is everything, there is the body, the instinct, the head,” she told the Telerama magazine in an interview in July.
She also lost her only daughter, Laurence-Marie, in 2016, the same year as the stroke.
“It is a very great woman who has left us,” Alexandre Baud, the producer of her final tour in 2015, told AFP.
“Juliette had been tired for some time but she had kept her extremely sharp mind, as shown by her very open interview with Telerama,” he added.
President Emmanuel Macron offered a generous tribute to Greco, a leading cultural figure in radical chic post-war Paris, praising her “elegance” and saying that in death she took her place in the “Pantheon of French chanson.”
“Juliette Greco joins (Jacques) Brel, (Leo) Ferre, (Georges) Brassens, (Charles) Aznavour … in the Pantheon of French chanson. her face and her voice will continue to accompany our lives. The ‘muse of Saint-Germain-des-Pres’ (a well-heeled Parisian suburb) is immortal,” Macron tweeted.
Usually clad in stylish but sombre black, Greco had debuted as a young dancer at the Paris ballet school when the Nazis invaded France. She was arrested and her older sister and her mother — a member of the French Resistance — were both sent to a concentration camp but survived and were liberated.
The lover of both Hollywood studio boss Darryl F Zanuck and jazz legend Miles Davis, Greco interpreted texts by the likes of Sartre, poets Jacques Prevert and Jean Cocteau, playwright Bertolt Brecht and composers such as Leo Ferre, Guy Beart, Georges Brassens and Serge Gainsbourg.
Her best-loved hits “Jolie mome” (cute kid) by Ferre and Gainsbourg’s “La javanaise” were written for her.
She compared singing to sex, suggesting that “an audience is like a lover. You have to start slowly, softly, with a thousand caresses, tears and doubts… then give everything so that they love you.”
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