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Happy Birthday, Errol Flynn!

20 Jun

June 20, 1909 – June 20, 2017

 

— David DeWitt

 
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twinarchers
7 years ago

I getting a drink right now to toast him. A Deep Eddy’s Lemon I think.

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Tony
7 years ago

Happy Birthday Errol. You were “a specimen of what a desperate and hard man will do to get on”. And you were “a simple, peace loving, home loving, law abiding man with the heart of a child”. You were a man of extreme adventure, and some larceny; and in your wake you left behind the story of an amazing life.

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Gentleman Tim
7 years ago

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Tony
7 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

I can’t help but smile looking at that picture. Thanks Gentleman Tim.

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The Zaca
7 years ago

Thanks David. He’d be 108 years old – gads – hard to fathom. There will never, ever be another like him.

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David DeWitt
7 years ago
Reply to  The Zaca

Agree! They broke the mold after he was brought into the world!

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Gentleman Tim
7 years ago

And then there was his legendary Birthday of ’39. Here’s how Louella Parsons reported it the next day:

“Errol Flynn’s 29th birthday yesterday was a dismal affair to put it mildly. He spent it in bed with plasters, doctors and all the trimmings after an automobile smashup the night before. He and Lili were driving along Sunset Boulevard when two pedestrians ran out in front of their car. In trying to avoid hitting them, Errol drove his automobile straight into a wall, cutting himself so badly that six stitches were taken near his eye and 12 in his lip. Lili was badly shaken but not hurt. Elizabeth and Essex, in which Flynn has been working with Bette Davis, has been held up for a week until Essex is well enough to do his stuff.”

Wow! That wall must have hurt as much as one of Lili’s champagne bottles!

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David DeWitt
7 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

This must be when Lili hit him with a champagne bottle!

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Gentleman Tim
7 years ago
Reply to  David DeWitt

I think you’re right, David! Harrison Carroll wrote this a few days later:

“The Errol-Flynn-Lili-Damita “automobile accident” certainly left two ribbers holding the sack. The very next night, Alan Hale and Donald Crisp had planned to deposit a broken-down horse on Flynn’s doorstep. They had bought the horse and are now too kind-hearted to send it to the glue factory … so they are stuck with it.”

Erskine Johnson attributed the injury to “a wave of bad luck … brought by Bette Davis’ mirror-breaking scene in Elzabeth and Essex”.

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Gentleman Tim
7 years ago
Reply to  Gentleman Tim

In a separate article, Harrison Carroll reported that Errol’s “father, mother, sister, and two cousins” “arrived by plane” just before his birthday. I wonder what they all thought of Miss Dynamita!

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timerider
7 years ago
Reply to  David DeWitt

I loved Lili! Wadda hot tamale!! Both of them were very young and tempered.

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Gentleman Tim
7 years ago
Reply to  timerider

right you are timerider!!

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ILIKEFLYNN
7 years ago

Just wanted to say, “Bung Ho, everybody!”

The publicity stuff is very interesting. Don’t have much to add but, Happy Birthday to Our Hero, Errol! He doesn’t look a day over 108!–A. R.

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Bob Schaffer
7 years ago

Amazing that he is more contemporary than we living mortals. To the Baron thru whom we are still living vicariously.

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timerider
7 years ago

Just had to jump on the bandwagon! Yes David they indeed broke that particular mold. Tony, I knew a man that would chase his kids around with water pistols and never really grew up. Errol will stay forever Young! One more thing, Hollyrock sure gave him a great set of choppers..LOL
Cheez..June 20th already??!!

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shangheinz
7 years ago

[img]http://www.theerrolflynnblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/image-5.jpg[/img]

G’bday Old Sport and “Happy Birthday!” to Aussie lass Nicole Kidman too, who shares Errol’s birthday.

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Ada Klock
7 years ago

Whether from a champagne bottle or a wall, that smile says it all!

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Gentleman Tim
7 years ago
Reply to  Ada Klock

Great photo, Ada! Thanks for sharing it with us!

I believe the crash on Sunset was made up to cover-up a champagne birthday bash and gash by Lady Lil’, but I’m not positive these photos depict that particular Flynncident.
(I have a copy of another photo – with Errol in a white jacket and shirt, with black ascot – that may fit the bill, too.)

Do you know the date by any chance? (The calendar date, that is.) (Or, the one on Errol’s left, if that’s what she is?!)

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Tony
7 years ago
Reply to  Ada Klock

Hi Ada Klock,

I don’t remember seeing that picture before, thanks for posting it!

Tony

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