With the rape trial ‘acquittal’ still fresh in the press, Errol is back to work on his next picture. And there is never a dull moment in this time period.
There is also a large photo shoot in mid-May which we will present later.
Enjoy!
— Topper
Dear Flynnstones,
Barbara Barondess was a colorful caracter. Born in NY on the 4th of July in 1907 she left the US for her parents` homeland Russia, only to take a bullet for her father during the October Revolution. She came back to the States and became an actress in Hollywood. Winning a Miss New York pageant along the way, paved her path. She filmed with Greta Garbo, whom she would term a polite, if dull, friend (“She chose to be a recluse, basically because she had nothing to say.”). One of her better known movies was “8 girls in a boat”- Flynn was not in, he surely would have loved to, but it preceded his arrival at the Traumfabrik by two years. Barondess met Errol, when she persued a second career as an interior designer and in that capacity worked for him.
Her third job was a dream come true, since she alwas aspired to be a writer, ever since she went to dinner with literature great Eugene O`Neill. In 1990 she released her memoires “One Life is not enough. Surviving the Russian Revolution and Capture the American Dream of Broadway and Hollywood”. Apparently one book seemed not enough and she had two more additions planned with anecdotes about Harlow, Gable and Garbo. Having been the love interest, or shall we say muse, of producer Paul Bern, it would have been interesting to read, if she also had an apparition of a mischievous dwarf in Bern`s mansion like Sharon Tate had when she lived there with Jay Sebring. If it was Paul or the Pole Tate saw in a lucid dream, who threatened her life years before her gruesome murder. And if Barbara B. would have approved of Sebring`s choice of pitch black as a color for his bedroom. If Errol Flynn`s pool had been of the same color at some time. If… Nuff!
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear Flynnstones,
here is a rare pic of Errol a mere two weeks before his untimely death visiting Ringling Bros. Circus.
The team of three shows him with his past protegé and fiancé in spe Beverly and her friend Linda.
Where Flynn put his buzzsaw straw hat, if he threw into the ring or lent it to Maurice Chevalier remains an open investigation.
Make ‘em laugh,
— shangheinz
Errol arrives in San Francisco by ocean liner on November 9th, from his Hawaiian vacation. He had sailed to San Francisco on his yacht Sirocco and now sails back to Los Angeles. From there, he will get ready for his next film, Dodge City, on location in Modesto, California on November 10th.
Enjoy
— Topper
We like to promote special people on the blog when they do something wonderful and in that spirit I present to you Dennis Delaney’s new DENNIS DELANEY STORYTELLER THEATRE that is a website dedicated to the spoken word. Dennis is a lifelong friend of mine and the blog, and has been an actor/writer/producer for many years. He is launching his website featuring new audio stories every month … please go check out this stuff!
— David DeWitt
Dear Flynnstones,
imagine if Errol had gotten some of the roles of Alan Ladd, Humphrey Bogart or even Ronald Reagan. And had worked with dark directors Fritz Lang, John Farrow or the early John Huston.
That‘d been kinda flynntastic.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Dear Flynnstones,
there can never be another Flynn, right?
But while reading Samuel Marx’ superb book “Deadly Illusions“ on Jean Harlow and the murder of Paul Bern, I came across a namesake actor’n’athlete, who could have given Errol a run for his ringside reputation. en.m.wikipedia.org…
MBF threw in the Tinseltown towel early and made way for the real deal. He may have given Warners the idea to market our Hollywood hero as a bonafide boxer of Olympic proportions though. Luckily they didn‘t change the name of the aspiring contender to Terrence Thompson or Leslie LeBaron or…
The studio then and there already knew the prequel can never outdo the original.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
We have had the issue of our COMMENTS going missing from the blog for some time. You might thing this is an easy fix but nope! All the comments are still on the backend, even new ones, but are not showing up and it a huge headache to find the problem and fix it. Yet, we are not giving up by any means …
— David DeWitt
Dear Flynnstones,
Errol covered a lot of ground during his lifetime. Between these pics taken respectively in Brazil and Germany lay roughly a decade. They confirm that once learned, you never loose the ability to
enjoy,
— shangheinz