that was ALMOST inches from a clean get-a-way!
Fortunately… I alerted our resident keeper of THE TRUTH in all things Cinema and Television history…
After Brian Twist’s INCREDIBLE find- of an extant early Flynn “cameo” effort… still another so-called “listing” has attempted to lay claim to the early Flynn film C.V. also, only~ NOT SO FAST:
“This short film is on Youtube. All five of the Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy Vitaphone shorts are strung together into a single video. This one is number four. I watched it from beginning to end and I found absolutely no trace of Errol Flynn in this film. Nothing, zero. Who in the world got this movie added to Flynn’s credits?
Many of the Vitaphone shorts survive only in grainy 16MM like this. You saw the Vitaphone story on TCM in the past. The studio was and still is in Brooklyn. Broadway actors could get their feet wet in movies, by filming during the day, and still making the curtain in the evening. If they did good, they were summoned to the WB studio in Hollywood. Red Skelton, Bob Hope, and Danny Kaye did their first film work in front of the Vitaphone cameras. Fatty Arbuckle did his last work there.
It’s possible that when Flynn came to America from Britain, Warner had him first stop at their Brooklyn studio to get experience. However, he does not appear in this film at all!”
~ Ralph Schiller
— Karl
