— David DeWitt
Archive for the ‘Flynn-related’ Category
The Maestro at The Bard
13
Aug
Robin Hood and Beyond at the Bard Music Festival
This Friday: August 16, 2019
It was through Max Reinhardt that Korngold first started writing for Hollywood, where he and his family joined the growing exodus of émigrés from Europe. Korngold believed that “music is music, whether it is for the stage, rostrum, or cinema,” and his background in concert music, opera, operetta, and musical comedy proved invaluable in writing for film. His Academy Award-winning score for The Adventures of Robin Hood – an epic Technicolor swashbuckler starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland – integrated music from both his Sursum Corda and his original material for Rosen aus Florida into a taut, genre-defining masterpiece.
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— Tim
Mail Bag! John Decker Death Certificate!
30
Jul
Special thanks to Robert Peckinpaugh for this rare item!
— David DeWitt
Mail Bag! Olivia deHavilland PRINCESS O’ROURKE!
25
Jul
From Karl Holmberg:
“Generally considered the film that caused Olivia de Havilland to sue Warner Brothers over contract rights. She won the lawsuit, resulting in California Labor Code Section 2855, informally known as the “De Havilland Law”.”
Gotta wonder if “Chas” (an Oscar winner for that year!) didn’t also help that along a little…
(According to Piper Laurie in her memoirs (Learning To Love Out Loud), Charles Coburn loved pinching women’s bottoms. It was for him like a tic. Every female under one hundred and five had to move fast around.)
PRINCESS O’ROURKE, Olivia de Havilland, 1943
— David DeWitt
