What did Errol say when he first saw this chandelier? Where and to whom did he say it??
Added April 28, AM EST
Added April 28, PM EST
— Tim
Archive for the ‘Flynn and…’ Category
Four Score Years Ago — 4/15/1937 — Barcelona
17
Apr
Hollywood Citizen News – Elizabeth Yeaman – April 15, 1937
The Hollywood Reporter today carries a remarkable story titled
“Barcelona Greets Errol Flynn.” The story carries a Barcelona date line,
but there is no indication of the actual source of the interview. I quote
it in part: “When Errol Flynn arrived in Barcelona he was greeted by the
commissioner of public spectacles, J. Carner Ribalta, who introduced him
to the commissioner of propaganda of the Catalonian government and all
facilities were accorded him. In an interview with the press, Flynn said
his visit to Spain was prompted by a desire to ascertain the truth regarding
conditions there.
“Asked by the press boys what was the general impression in the United States
about the war, he replied, ‘That’s it. The confusing news and the fact that
all the American press is in the hands of powerful ‘trusts’ made me decide to
take this trip to see with my own eyes what is really happening and write a series
of articles for publication.’
“Is is true that money has been collected in Hollywood to help the Spanish government?”
asked the reporters. “Yes,’ said the actor. “Fredric Marsh, James Cagney, and I were the
initiators, and $1,500,000 has been raised so far.’
Flynn was accompanied by his old friend, Dr. Herman F. Erben, a well known member of
the American Communist Party.”
— Tim
Eighty Years Ago – 4/6/1937 – “Urban”/Livvie
07
Apr
“Urban”/Livvie at its finest.
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express – Harrison Carroll – April 6, 1937
At the time of the Madrid incident–when a machine gun bullet creased his
forehead–Errol Flynn is supposed to have been accompanied by Dr. Harmine
F. Urban (sic), expert in tropical diseases. If so, it was not the first time
the two had been in a tight spot together. They were once ambushed by natives
on the Sepia (sic) River in New Guinea and it was motion pictures taken of Flynn
in this fight that won him his first screen test and role in the British picture,
In the Wake of the Bounty.
Olivia De Havilland, who was Flynn’s screen sweetheart in Captain Blood and The Charge
of the Light Brigade was driving down Hollywood Boulevard when she saw headlines about
his being shot.
She told me yesterday: “I nearly ran into a street car.”
— Tim
Eighty Years Ago – 4/5/1937 – Lili
05
Apr
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express – April 5, 1937
LILI DAMITA MAY FLY TO WOUNDED ERROL FLYNN
All Lili Damita is sure of today is that she must get post-haste to the side
of her wounded husband, Errol Flynn — by airplane if possible.
After a night of frantic worry over the fate of the handsome actor-adventurer
as the result of an alarmist telephone call from a London friend saying Flynn
had been killed near Madrid, Miss Damita planned to ask the foreign office for
a special permit to fly to Spain.
The actress poured out her thanks in a torrent of emotional words when she was
informed that latest information said that Flynn had been only slightly wounded
and had left Madrid for Valencia.
(Madrid advisers said Flynn was grazed on the head by a machine gun bullet
when he was visiting the University City front.)
In the meantime Miss Damita made frantic efforts to get in touch with Flynn,
planning to defer her departure until she gets direct word from her husband.
Her only worry as she prepared from Leeds Castle in Kent to the foreign office
here was whether the reported injury to Flynn’s handsome Irish face will mar his
film career.
— Tim
It Was Eighty Years Ago Today — 3/30/37
30
Mar
March 30, 1937
Hollywood Citizen News – Elizabeth Yeaman
The Warner Bros. are sincerely worried over their failure to locate Errol Flynn,
who was hastily summoned back to Hollywood when it was learned that he was
planning to penetrate war-torn Spain. Errol was in Paris, and last Friday he told
his wife, Lili Damita, he was leaving for Spain. He left, while Lili remained in Paris.
He didn’t tell her where he was going in Spain, and apparently Lili didn’t bother to inquire.
Robert Schless, head of the Warner Paris office, has not been able to locate him. Errol,
when he left, was determined to do some war corresponding in Spain. He started to make
arrangements with the United States for some special articles, but the studio jumped in
and soured the deal. Errol threatened that he would make arrangements with an English syndicate.
This he may have done.
Warners cabled him to be back here by April 15, to start the The Perfect Specimen.
I doubt if they actually had a picture ready for him, but hoped to get him back on the plea of urgency.
Miriam Hopkins has been announced for the co-starring spot in The Perfect Specimen, but that
announcement is quite premature, for she has not been signed for the role.
— Tim
Flynn had a Cabin in the Garden of the Gods?
29
Mar
A Question, Not a Quiz.
Flynnvestigating other matters, I came across claims and suggestions implying that Errol may have owned a lake and cabin/hunting lodge at the long now gone “TWIN LAKES PARK”, “Twenty-five miles from Hollywood”, aka “Southern California’s Garden of the Gods”. One site suggests, too, that he even built a dam at near his alleged lodge.
Quoting a comment on the great Iverson Movie Ranch post linked below:
“One of the “Twin Lakes” was reputed to belong to Errol Flynn and the dam can still be seen from DeSoto Ave. (North of the 118) Flynn had a cabin (The old Dave Rhodes Ranch) and he used to hunt in the area.”
iversonmovieranch.blogspot.com…
Quoting a site on local (Chatsworth) history:
“Errol Flynn once owned a hunting lodge in Chatsworth and built a dam that still remains just north of the 118 freeway near Browns Canyon Road?”
Does anyone have any information or thoughts on these claims? Should we be hunting for this lakeside lodge of Errol Flynn? – Or are these claims of Flynn’s lakeside lodge a dam mistake?
Here are front and back looks of a now long gone entrance to Twin Lakes Park:
Here’s a glimpse of the Twin Lakes gate in White Heat, filmed by Raoul Walsh:
— Tim
Dr. Who?
28
Mar
Given the Green Light by shangheinz on “Errorol”:
WHAT PROMINENT ENGLISH DOCTOR HELPED ERROL TREAT HIS SINUSES?
He was a “Harley Street” practitioner.
Early in his career, he pioneered and advocated the use of “truth drugs”.
He famously advocated one such drug in a French murder case.
Mid-career he was involved as an expert witness in a Hong Kong medical malpractice case.
He was later involved in a notorious British abortion/killing-of the-mother case.
He communicated from England to Errol elsewhere in Europe.
He had an indirect connection to the Profumo Affair.
Late in his career, he was quoted in Sports Illustrated concerning the abilities of women drivers.
He looked like this, but usually wore glasses during the years he treated Errol:
— Tim
Companion Piece
16
Mar
A QUIZ
Adjunct to the “(Cooking) Out Like Flynn” post put up earlier today, I offer the following quiz:
With what poet did Errol once share a steak and very-specially-boiled potato on the beach?
Clue Numero Uno: A renowned travel and culinary writer raved about the potato.
Clue Numero Dos: It happened in F.L.A.
Clue Numero Tres: At least two of the three steak and potato eaters mentioned were authorities on cocktails.
— Tim
Errol’s Barman at “London’s Most Famous Hotel”
15
Mar
Here’s the story on Joe Gilmore, former barman at the Savoy Hotel’s “American Bar” in London.
i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03550/gilmore2_3550591b.jpg…
Flynn, Neil Armstrong, Lady Di, he served them all.
For Errol, served rare Vodka with red pepper, as recounted in the article below.
www.independent.co.uk/topic/errol-flynn…
Errol at the Savoy in ’54, Joe’s first year at the “American Bar”
media.gettyimages.com…
Here’s Errol at the Savoy, Joe’s first year at the Savoy’s American Bar:
media.gettyimages.com…
— Tim
