to share a similar admonition regarding a certain author as it applied to HIS book on Errol!
(In case you can’t make it out- the message itself is clear: “… please don’t read this! Orson Welles”.)
— Karl
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The passing of an EXTRAORDINARY man…
23
Apr
and, in particular, a Flynn (early beginnings) archaeologist:
John Hammond Moore (1924-2017);
and his masterful work?
“The Young Errol Flynn Before Hollywood”.
Published in Australia back in 1975, and at one time RARE as hen’s teeth to even find… was finally RE-published by a Canadian firm, Trafford, in 2011.
Mr.Moore was covered in this space back in the day (including being interviewed by the late Jack Marino LA Talk Radio Show) by way of this link:
and, for more background- here is his “local” obituary which covers but some of his fascinating life story (including loosing his leg):
— Karl
IMDB and the listing…
19
Apr
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
