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Mail Bag! Errol Flynn’s Hobart with Ross Schnioffsky! Part 5

06 Jul
Back to Errol Flynn
Sorry for the delay folks, I got caught up with other projects.
Day Two (Part 4) of my Errol Flynn/Hobart Adventure – 10 Darcy St, South Hobart
From 1914 to 1916 the Flynns lived here. After the “you show me yours” episode in the back yard with the little girl next door the seven year old Errol got into heaps of trouble and consequently ran away. His mother wrote, “We suffered agonies of anxiety for days and nights. He was found miles away where he went and offered himself for work at a dairy farm. He only asked five shillings a week for wages, saying that would do him as he never intended to marry.”

Ross

— David DeWitt

 
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From Benny not a Penny

12 Jun

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Dear Flynnstones,

look what I refound amongst the material I have gathered over the years on Errol‘s half finished William Tell film- an appearance on the BBC Show “In Town tonight“ from November 1953.

I remember a conversation with this blog‘s own Inga, when she posted a list of all Flynn radio outings. I said I thought that it was a TV  show, because I had seen a clip from it. Matter of factly it may have been both. Despite being broadcast only into the ether, Robin Hood hawking for £ 50.000 in order to become Will Tell was too interesting to not put on camera also.

By the end of the year, he would have the money (not from United Artists boss Arthur B. Krim, not from Brother Warner), spend it elsewhere and move to England to do three movies there.

Instead resuming Tell with a different script & director two years later, it became apparent that the scenes already in the cans would stick out like an arrow from a head. Reshooting was not an option. The apple shot had been missed.

Enjoy,

 

— shangheinz

 
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Access nearly 15,000 historical newsreels from the Hearst Metrotone News Collection…

27 May

The Packard Humanities Institute

The UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) launched a new website (newsreels.net…) giving access to thousands of historical newsreel stories from the Hearst Metrotone News Collection. The website is the first phase of a multi-year project, led by PHI, to make the entire Hearst collection accessible to the public.

— Karl

 
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Death of a Cameraman

27 May

Dear Flynnstones,

amongst the myriad of myths surrounding the sinister shooting of “The Lady from Shanghai“, one also concerns our Errol.

No, not the one about his clandestine cameo. I think  we settled the score once and for all here:

Lord from Shanghai- Errol after all?

It is about Flynn turning Wolf Larsen and wanting to give a young dead cameraman a sea burial.

Read all about it: www.aenigma-images.com…

Despite the heat, coolness prevailed.

Enjoy,

 

 

 

 

— shangheinz

 
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A Few Firsts for Flynn!

22 May

Topper MacKay provides a first installment of some looks inside his two volume book on dear ‘ol Errol: “Errol Flynn, Movie Star” …

 

The following  excerpts speak for themselves as they appeared in the book . The first U.S. magazine cover. January 31, 1936. The first overseas cover.  April 12, 1936. There may have been a dispute about the first one overseas, since the French magazine Cinemonde included a free paper supplement in their regular issue of Feb, 20, 1936. It did not appear on the magazine’sactual cover for that issue. Here is the flyer that was added though I am submitting it for reference only and did not include this insert in the book.

And the first U.S. magazine article with an Errol Flynn byline. August 9, 1936.

Enjoy,

Topper

 

 

— David DeWitt

 
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An actor by any other name…

21 May

gbtimes.com…

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— Karl

 
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Death on the Lot, New Podcast About Untimely Deaths of Trailblazing 1940s and 1950s Actors

19 May

Adam McKay’s Hyperobject Industries and Sony Music Entertainment Announce Death on the Lot, New Podcast About Untimely Deaths of Trailblazing 1940s and 1950s Actors

— Karl

 
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Into Dodge

18 May

Dear Flynnstones,

above you see Errol and his buddy Air Bud Ernst leaving for the grand premiere of Dodge City.

The line up of this star studded extravaganza was impressive.

It even featured a special event what looks like a (shotgun?) wedding.


A pierced penny for who can spot the Duke in this picture.

Enjoy,

— shangheinz

 
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Wanted: Errol Flynn

18 May

Dear Flynnstones,

our man Flynn was a catch for Jack Warner in many ways.

Enjoy,

 

— shangheinz

 
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Meeting the Prez

17 May

Dear Flynnstones,

this rare pic shows Errol meeting Ronald Reagan, who before becoming a B-movie star, started out as a radio commentator. We all know where he ended up.

Both look like at a casting for “Casablanca“. Neither got the part, and so didn’t Hedy Lamarr. What a classic that could have been.

They probably are promoting one of their movies. RR was reminiscing quite often about the good times they had together on the Warner Bros lot. He proudly pointed out towards another Flynnmate, Paul McWilliams (from Objective Burma), that he was not in one, but in two movies with Errol. Paul and the Prez shared the same birthday and his gift card had contained a photo of their respective co-star.

Enjoy,

 

— shangheinz

 
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