— David DeWitt
Archive for the ‘Flynn and…’ Category
The USS Garter Belt
17
Jul
The “USS Garter Belt” with Errol, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson, Cass Daley, Linda Darnell, Dick Haymes and Sterling Holloway.
“Can you imagine a battleship manned entirely by women?”
— Tim
July 4, 1936
04
Jul
July 4, 1936
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
“Errol joins Nigel Bruce, C. Aubrey Smith and other members of the Hollywood Cricket Club with the Vancouver Cricket Club at Brockton Point in Stanley Park.”
“The ground was packed with an enthusiastic but non-cricketing crowd consisting principally of teenage girls anxious to see and get close to Errol Flynn.”
— Tim
‘Stage Door Jimmy’
16
Jun
A Jimmy Starr Quiz
According to Hollywood writer Jimmy Starr – aka ‘Stage Door Jimmy’ – he personally witnessed that Errol particularly liked which category of women:
. Heiresses
. Actresses
. Waitresses
. Singers
. Orientals
. Tennis players
. Burlesque dancers
— Tim
Curtiz call
12
Jun
Dear fellow Flynn fans,
the definitive behind- the- scenes book has seen the light.
My dear friend Ilona Ryder, a former teacher at the Grant MacEwan Community College, has made her promise true and wrote an intimate portrait of her grandfather Michael Curtiz.
For the first time using never- before- seen documents she lifts the veil on this famous director`s family ties, trials and tribulations. Let me tell you this: he was a busy man!
Besides directing up to 175 films on both ends of the pond and speaking several languages simultanously, he constantly kept falling in love all over again. These liasions resulted in various children, who finally have a say in (t)his biography.
He managed to keep in touch with his loved ones, helped where he could during those dire times of war and never forgot his Austro- Hungarian roots.
If you like me are into cinematic anecdotes from an up close and personal view, you are in for a treat.
Mrs. Ryder interviewed many people over the period of 20 years (Lady Livvie being the most prominent of the lot) to add an angle to the film maker and family man who brought us Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood and Yankee Doodle Dandy.
There is some Flynn in, but as far as Lil` Damita is concerned… you have to see for yourself.
Get it here if you can: pagemasterpublishing.ca/shop/heres-looking-at-you-kids-michael-curtiz-and-his-hidden-families/…
Congrats,
— shangheinz
Who May Olivia have Meant by This?
08
Jun
June 9, 1936
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
Now, who may Olivia de Havilland mean by this?
In an interview yesterday the youthful Warners star that she ‘could fall in love’ with one of the leading men she has had in pictures.
She insisted it was all theoretical, but Hollywood immediately began to count the lads over the fingers.
They consist of 5. The first was Dick Powell in A Midsummer’s Night Dream. The rest have been James Cagney in The Irish in Us, Joe E. Brown in Alibi Ike, Errol Flynn in Captain Blood and The Charge of the Light Brigade, and Frederic March in Anthony Adverse.
Even if she is just theorizing, Hollywood would like to know which is Olivia’s ‘type.’
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Lysanda & Hermia
Danny & Lucille
Frank & Dolly
Peter & Arabella
Geoffrey & Elsa
Anthony & Angela
— Tim
A Really Big Show
02
Jun
Errol Shows in Hollywood – Featuring Errol, Lili, Ed & Louella
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May 30, 1938
Ed Sullivan
Hollywood Citizens News
Errol Flynn gets in June 4.
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June 2, 1938
Louela O. Parsons
Los Angeles Examiner
Lili and Errol Flynn, no longer “among the missing,” planed on yesterday morning from Chicago.
— Tim
