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
Archive for the ‘Flynn and…’ Category
Mail Bag! Finding Flynn in Tasmania!
28
Jan
From the Mail Bag!
Hi David,
Hope your well? I wrote to you some time ago and you kindly replied. I’m Errol Flynn’s second cousin living in Sydney. I was recently in Oatlands Tasmania and went into the TKO bakery for a curried scallop pie and discovered it was full of Errol Flynn memorabilia. Thought you might like to advise blog members in case they come down under.Regards,
Steve Russell
Hope your well? I wrote to you some time ago and you kindly replied. I’m Errol Flynn’s second cousin living in Sydney. I was recently in Oatlands Tasmania and went into the TKO bakery for a curried scallop pie and discovered it was full of Errol Flynn memorabilia. Thought you might like to advise blog members in case they come down under.Regards,
Steve Russell
Thanks, Steve!
— David DeWitt
What’s the Club?
16
Jan
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
Passed in 2016 …
02
Jan
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
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away
29
Dec
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
The Search for Sean Flynn & Dana Stone Ends …
25
Dec
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
A Distingushed Duo
19
Dec
Who is this distinguished duo with The Baron and Swoonatra??
– Alliterative rivals.
– Very well known, connected and influential in their day.
– One has a well known son.
— Tim
Titchfield Hotel & Navy Island Memories!
17
Dec
Laura Barre writes us via the Mail Bag!
I was at the Titchfield in the early 60’s when Rex Rand bought it, and it was called “Jamaica Reef hotel”. The natives were all still talking about Erroll and how he won that island across from the hotel in a card game. The hotel was run down, but beautiful, and the breezes felt like soft, wet silk against your skin. I must have been one of the first people there after he bought it, because the parties had not yet started, and it wasn’t organized at all. I do recall getting really dressed for dinner in a chiffon gown, and thinking the surroundings were those of the most lush, tropical paradise I could imagine. I so want to return for nostalgia purposes. How lovely that some of it is still there.
Laura
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Laura, thanks so much for writing! I love the Titchfield Hotel (Jamaica Reef) as it became known. And all of Error’s time there. My friend Dennis Mullen was able to get onto the restricted military base where the hotel stood and to see the remains of the 3 pools, part of the floor of the ballroom and the path through the lush greens that he was told everybody used. Do you have any photos of the hotel?
I’d like to put up your comments to me as a Mail Bag item on the blog if you don’t mind? It would be fascinating for the blog to read what you said …
Here are some of Dennis’s photos. Two are from the resort on Navy Island. That is Dennis in the photos.
Regards,
David
David DeWitt/Admin/The Errol Flynn Blog
Sent from Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
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Wish I had taken photos! I remember the paths well, as I was worried about tripping in heels. I remember going on a long path of steps to then where we dined, in a circle, surrounded by these tall trees, all seeming very overgrown. I was staying in a little cottage which only had a ceiling fan to cool off, and my hair continued to never really “dry”. There were night blooming bushes outside my door that were like perfume. Go ahead if you like and upload my comments. What’s going on with Navy Island now? I’m intending to go back up there. Rex had sent a car for me that picked me up in Kingston, and I’ll never forget those scary winding mountain roads, and going through Kingston with lots of people in the roads carrying on. A novel experience for a young woman. I ‘ll bet they are still telling stories about Erroll around there!
Laura
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Thanks, Laura!
— David DeWitt
