The Errol Flynn Blog

This is a wonderful song by Amanda McBroom the daughter of Hollywood actor David Bruce!  It is very moving and touching – very worthwhile to listen too.  A quite different tribute to Errol, but a very nice tribute! Enjoy!

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Attached is David Bruce's picture for you to recall him as Errol's friend and in his movies!

Addendum:
I contacted Amanda McBroom through her website to ask her if she composed the song and if she had some memorabilia to add to the blog:

Amanda's Reply:
Dear Tina:
Thank you for your lovely e-mail.
I wrote the song, called ERROL FLYNN, with a man named Gordon Hunt,
father of actress Helen Hunt, as a tribute to  my father, David Bruce.
They did several movies together in the 30's and 40's and were very
close friends. I don't remember ever meeting him. I was quite young when
Errol died, but I know my father was very fond of him. The song is directly connected to “Santa Fe Trail”. that was the movie poster
Gordon and I both had hanging on our walls which inspired us to write
the song.
I am glad you enjoy it.
Cheers,
Amanda

David Bruce (left) in “Santa Fe Trail”!

Now my dear Blog readers one thing is very interesting in Amanda's reply – it is Gordon Hunt her co-composer, father of Helen Hunt.  A-ha –  was it Helen Hunt who purchased Errol's Mulholland Farm?  Did she ordered the removal of Errol's house?  Did she build her house on the very spot Errol's house stood?  Did she sold it then to Justin Timberlake who owns it now.  Anybody have the correct answers???

— Tina

This unique picture comes to us from our member Elayna, not yet an author, who asked me to publish this picture for your enjoyment! 
The rareness is in the hairstyle and dress as Errol doesn't wear them in the movie as pictured in this “Gentleman Jim” photograph!  Great find Elayna!

— Tina

Today I was on Amazon and found this French titled book advertised, as the title is unknown to me I went to Google and found the story of a movie (1959) of a boy extremely similar to Errol's life as a youth titled “Les 400 Coups” = The 400 Blows. Please go to Google and read it I could hardly believe it.  There is somewhere a connection – I think?
Errol's title is “Mes 400 Coups” = My 400 Blows and he supposedly is the author???
If it has anything to do with MWWW why the parallel to the movie “Les 400 Coups”
Any insides to this – Errolists???

   
                                                                                        Good looking French kid too!
Wonderful picture of Errol!
This artist's rendering accentuates by giving great emphasis to his chevron eyebrows representing him with that lovely devilish look.

— Tina

After finding
last year a slanderous paragraph about Errol on the Hermann
Erben Wikipedia page about Errol being anti-Semitic and various other nasty things and that a letter exists to proof this
allegation!
I went to work and  requested this paragraph to be removed!  I had to repeat my entries several
times as Wikipedia removed my entries consistently and I re-entered it just as
consistently. 

Below is now the confirmation of
deletion of that paragraph – small success, but one less slanderous entry about
Errol.

My words below are in an edited format by
Wikipedia.  PROOF is the word to use! Also, read it carefully you will
notice that it is not slander when a person is dead.  How
convenient for all those slanderous ink slingers.

Talk:Hermann Erben from Wikipedia

Nothing but slanderous talk about Errol Flynn! It says about the
letter “if genuine”! If genuine indeed – is the key word! Is
there such letter? If so, it MUST be produced, where is it? Why even
speak about something that cannot be substantiated? Therefore it is only
hearsay and only slanderous talk about Errol Flynn, who never was
“ANTI” to any race, creed or color!

To the editor of this page! It says in your rules and
regulations that what is printed in Wikipedia must be verifiable. Your
statement of Errol Flynn's letter is not verifiable! Where is the
letter? If you are unable to produce this “letter” you should remove
this paragraph as it is not verifiable and only malicious slander! —Preceding comment added by Bariebel (talk • contribs) 23:25, 31 January
2010 (UTC)

Technically, it's neither slander nor libel because Flynn is dead (or that's how I
understand it, anyway). And – from what I understand – it is
verifiable, in that it's been quoted in a reputable scholarly biography
of Flynn. However, it is not relevant to an article about
Erben, and so I have removed it. DS (talk) 15:52, 2 March 2010
(UTC)

— Tina

His looks are as if playing Shakespeare!

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start.
The game's afoot: follow your spirit; and, upon this charge cry
'God for Harry! England and Saint George!'

Re: Errol

reciting
“Henry V” in “Too much too soon”!

— Tina

Hi, To all the Errol Flynn fans, for My first story to introduce myself, I will tell you why and how I became more interested in Errol Flynn as the years went on……. Growing up in the late 40s and 50s, some where there was always a Errol Flynn movie being shown at the movies or on TV when it first arrived, and after seeing a Flynn movie, you could always somehow remember his face but not necessary the name of the movie, Flynn's  looks seem to leave a permanent picture on the brain….And then when his movies became less frequent and other things entered your life, (girls, cars,etc.) well, you know! I remember at home one morning and my mother was reading the newspaper, when she slowly put the newspaper down, went into the other room, sat down and said to my father, “Errol Flynn has just died”, as if it was a member of the family….

They were very E.F. fans especially my mother (and that's another story)…… The years rolled on….When I was in my early twenties, I had the opportunity to go onboard Errol's schooner “Sirocco” I could not believe it, Me on Errol Flynn's boat, amazing… to walk the deck and anywhere I liked, all through the cabins, then it hits you, you start to remember, the movies of Flynn, and for a moment you start think you are Errol Flynn, Oh.! What an extraordinary feeling…..

Some years later, when I was in the south of France, and was talking to some people from my hotel and they knew that I was from Australia, one said ' your movie friend Errol Flynn's boat is down there, I said ” Oh.! Sirocco”… No, No, the other boat “Zaca”, I could not believe it, I had thought Zaca had sunk years ago, I could not get down to the marina quick enough, and there she was, just sitting there, stripped of everything, what a wreck!

I obtained permission to go onboard, well, what can one say, in my lifetime to be on both of Errol Flynn's Yachts, I walked around the deck for about an hour, just thinking and staring… could not go below all boarded up! At that not knowing much about Zaca and Flynn's private life away from his movie  making; it was some years later when Errol's movies became available on DVD that I mention to my wife about being on Flynn's boats, and might do some research on Zaca, and to do an Oil painting of her, I have been an artist for a number of years amongst other adventurous titles. Looking through dozens of Errol Flynn Web sites have realised how popular Errol is today. Finished the painting of Zaca as she was in 1946 (the painting is for sale to anyone interested). Have started on painting “Sirocco”. Then will do a portrait of Errol…..what happened to John Decker's painting of  Flynn?

Regards to all, Trevor

— Trevor Hill

— Tina

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— David DeWitt

The March Docklines, the official publication of The Errol Flynn Marina, JA is now available!

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— David DeWitt

Check out the latest Rock-itt Magazine and Pete's continuing series on Flynn! www.therockittmagazine.com….au 

— David DeWitt