On tour discussing The Princess Bride, including this weekend in Florida
Merging multiple news sources …
“Cary Elwes was chosen for the role of Westley in Princess Bride because he reminded Carl Reiner of the swashbuckling heroes of early cinema, specifically Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks As depicted below, he later joined Flynn and Fairbanks in playing Robin Hood, of course.
Elwes and Mandy Patinkin spent more months perfecting their famous swordfight — right- and left-handed. Reiner hired the best coaches in Hollywood: Peter Diamond and Bob Anderson. Not only did both men train the original swashbuckler, Errol Flynn, they both worked on Star Wars.”
— Tim
Sunday Morning Tribute to Flynn Fan and Scholar Extraordinaire, Lincoln Hurst
— Tim
Well, maybe not so easy …
Thanks to top Flynnside source(s).
How do the below images relate to Errol? What, where, why, and with whom????
— Tim
From the Mail Bag!
— David DeWitt
The three men depicted below were all early members of a club that few of their acting colleagues in Tinsel Town joined.
– It involved a skill relatively rare among their acting colleagues.
– Sean later had the skill involved, but was not a club member.
– It was founded in 1944 and is still active.
What’s the Club?
— Tim
Did I miss it or did no one report on the fact that 2 Flynn alumni, from his very last dramatic appearance (The Golden Shanty), passed last year:
Patricia Barry (Adie Walker)
Arthur Hiller (Director) below with Errol.
— Karl
Tammy, Tammy, Tammy is gone.
How terribly, terribly sad. One of the last true greats from Hollywood’s Golden Age has died, only a day after her daughter, also a film legend.
Around the time of her playing Tammy, there was discussion of Debbie Reynolds costarring with Errol, following his own great success in The Sun Also Rises. This was all circa the time Liz ran off with the Louse, leaving the unsinkable Debbie with two Fisher toddlers, Todd and Carrie. Carrie, of course, achieved immortality of her own starring in Star Wars with spacebuckler Hans Solo, a character inspired by Errol himself. Except for Harrison, they are all now in a galaxy far, far away. Godspeed to all of them.
— Tim
I was contacted by Dave Hope this afternoon with some startling information: Sean Flynn and Dana Stone were executed within hours of their capture at dusk on April 6th, 1970. And he knows where they are buried.
To understand the full story you must read the full history of the event that took their lives, and the notes Dave provides. Click the image above for Dave’s detailed Facebook account. And the image below for his detailed notes.
Dave Hope tells me when the dry season comes around again he and his team will go to the location they have found for a very detailed examination of the burial area. This search has been an unending one for Rory Flynn and her family and Dave Hope has been tirelessly and patiently pursuing answers that have eluded others, most notably Tim Page, for decades.
Thank you Dave for your dedication and determination to get to the end of this decade’s long mystery …
Dave Hope points to the area where Sean Flynn & Dana Stone were executed just a few kilometers from where they were captured.
— David DeWitt
