Category Archives: Errol Helping Out

Errol Flynn’s Generosity

The letter is a bit blurry but there is a transcription. Love his generosity     — Selene Hutchison-Zuffi

Tributes to the Troops

Memorial Day, 2021 Because of poor health, Errol’s multiple attempts to serve in uniform were not accepted by the Armed Forces, so he supported America and the Allies in numerous other ways, beginning with his anti-Nazi tour of South America, his numerous appearances for the Red Cross and on war bond tours, and his anti-Axis war films – from Sea… (more…)

Fists, Bottles and Chairs

May 17, 1938 Los Angeles Examiner ERROL FLYNN AIDS AMERICAN IN FIGHT Havana, May 17. Errol Flynn, Hollywood film actor, received the thanks today of an unidentified American he saved from serious injury during a fight in a night club here last night. Fists, bottles and chairs were flying when Flynn intervened. The American who was involved escaped with a… (more…)

Thank You, Comrade [S.O.B.]!

Photo below published April 11, 1937: “Errol Flynn is pictured in a photography accompanying an ABC article lauding Hollywood actors and cinematographers for collecting money in support of Republican Spain (ABC, April 11, 1937, p. 4-5)” Thank you, Comrade [S.O.B]! “At a lunch with high-ranking military officers, one of them talked about “the heartfelt emotions and happiness the Spanish people… (more…)

Errol Killed in Spain

April, 1937   — Tim

Diary of an Actor-Adventurer as a Young Man

“Beautiful spring day, warm sunshine, country beautiful. How can people fight a war in this lovely weather? Four hours train journey from here the most savage cruel patricidal war is being waged.” So begins Errol’s Spanish Civil War Diary, eighty-four years ago today, on March 26, 1937. Further, Errol wrote: “Everyone is armed – some with large knives plus revolvers,… (more…)

A Novel Idea

March 23, 2021 Errol to the Rescue > “As she sits daydreaming in her seventh-grade classroom one September afternoon in 1937, Eva Jordan finds a curious note from her friend Ned. He hints that a Hollywood crew is about to descend upon their small northern California town to make a movie about Robin Hood, the legendary medieval archer who robbed… (more…)

Happy Birthday, Mr. Presidents — Featuring FDR, Errol Flynn, and Baby Joe Biden

January 29, 1939 Dinner and a Play with FDR and Errol Flynn 7:45pm – 8:50pm: Dinner at the White House with ER, Household, Errol Flynn, Miss Malvina Thompson, Mrs. Helm 8:50pm – 11:10pm – “Outward Bound” at the National Theater with ER, James Roosevelt, Jr., Errol Flynn, Marguerite A. LeHand , Miss Malvina Thompson, Mrs. Helm, Miss Connochie, Miss Henderson,… (more…)

Xmas for Xenia in Zurich

The Twelfth Day of Christmas, 1939 Harrison Carroll LA Evening Herald Express Those who saw Errol Flynn knock out polo player Alden Roar should have seen him yesterday — talking for six minutes in stumbling French to a sick youngster in a Zurich sanitarium. It gave quite a different slant on the Irish star ….. Easy to picture, too, the… (more…)

Dutch Harbor — 77 Years Ago Today

Amaknak Island, Unalaska, Alaska – December 4, 1943 — Tim

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