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Rocky Balboa Ranks “The Flynn” Number 1

25 Mar

Broadway Star Andy Karl Ranks Errol’s Mustache His Favorite – “Freekin’ Amazing”

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zacal
10 years ago

I agree with his taste and Errol wore it best. But I believe Fairbanks was first.[img]http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Fairbanks%20Sr.,%20Douglas/Annex/Annex%20-%20Fairbanks%20Sr.,%20Douglas%20(Thief%20of%20Bagdad,%20The)_01.jpg[/img]

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shangheinz
10 years ago
Reply to  zacal

[img]http://www.theerrolflynnblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Douglas_Fairbanks_signed_1921_photo.jpg[/img]

The most famous beard bearer during the silent era of movies was Adolphe Menjou, who starred with Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in “The Three Musketeers”. At that time DFSr. in private life went facial hairless.

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shangheinz
10 years ago
Reply to  shangheinz

[img]http://www.theerrolflynnblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Douglas-Fairbanks-Sr_-19251.jpg[/img]

By 1925 he wouldn`t leave home without the beforementioned “Menjou”: Now what (who) triggered the trimmed down version of a pencil thin moustache he wore for his role as thief of Bagdad, is anybody`s guess. Maybe this style originated in the Orient or the Carribean?

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zacal
10 years ago
Reply to  shangheinz

Here’s Fairbanks (front row) along with Menjou (center) and Flynn co-star Eugene Pallette on the left in the back.[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/The_Three_Musketeers_(1921)_1.jpg[/img]

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Gentleman Tim
10 years ago
Reply to  shangheinz

Well, hongkongheinz, if The Flynn did originate in the Orient, he has posthumously sent it back in modified form via Secretary Tsang.

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[img]http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-HC769_hk_J_20150225015611.jpg[/img]

[img]http://slcss.edu.hk/archive/2009/JohnTsang3.jpg[/img]

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Gentleman Tim
10 years ago

Unfortunately (or is it fortunately?), the likes of Little Richard, John Waters and private dick Pat Healy, the pencil thin mustache has had some hard times.

Interesting question as to where it originated. Outside of less hirsute cultures, I would think, for most people at least, it would have been quite a chore to regularly maintain such a precision cut ‘stache before the advent of modern razor blades. I’ve read that the need for battleground gas masks had a significant role in requiring daily shaving among soldiers, and indirectly thereafter most modern men. Perhaps a pencil thin wasn’t so possible or practical in the “West” long before Fairbanks?

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shangheinz
10 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

[img]http://www.theerrolflynnblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cyrano.jpg[/img]

Well Pencil Tim Stache, while the origins remain obscure, beards and bards always went over well at the movie screens. Cyrano is another lost role for Errol in my scrapbook.

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