The Errol Flynn Blog

Tim; this sounds like a shaggy dog story to me. First of all, the Warner Hollywood studios back then were actually the famed Samuel Goldwyn Studios and United Artists. After Sam Goldwyn died he left the studio and lot to the Motion Picture Country Home And Hospital. The Home not wishing to run a film studio promptly sold it to Warner Bros but that was decades after Flynn’s death. Warner Bros. need more studio space but since then the studio was sold off and is now called The Lot, for renting out the facility. The Formosa Cafe (now closed) was literally right next to the Goldwyn studio administration building. The Formosa (half of the building is a converted railroad passenger car) had a great deal of business because it was the closest bar just steps away from Goldwyn, and just around the corner from the Charles Chaplin Studios on LaBrea Avenue. An actor could drink his fill, fall off the bar stool, and be right back at work at the Goldwyn lot which is fairly small in size. I doubt the existence of any tunnels and of top of that Errol Flynn never shot any of his films or TV episodes at the Goldwyn studios. I had heard stories of violent fistfights between Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum and Broderick Crawford at the Formosa but never Errol Flynn.