Dear Flynnstones,
who has seen this film on Sean Flynn?
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
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The King of Kingston
26
May
Dear Flynnstones,
here is a local coverage of Errol‘s State visit to the Myrtle Bank Hotel (jamaicahotelhistory.com…) from January 3, 1947.
Film fans mob Errol Flynn at the Myrtle Bank Hotel
Errol Flynn came ashore from his yacht at the Myrtle Bank Hotel at noon yesterday and nearly created a riot. As the handsome, dashing screen star entered the lobby, a waiting ‘army’ of female hotel fans, who had impatiently been awaiting his coming ashore, mobbed him in traditional style.
Since news of his arrival spread throughout Kingston and St Andrew yesterday, local cinematics have been concentrating on the Myrtle Bank Hotel in an effort to secure autographs snapshots, or just look at the daring he-man lover of the screen in the flesh.
Gathering yesterday morning, a battery of woman fans filled the lobby and from the verandahs of the hotel. ‘Bobby-soxers’ were a lot of grownups, too. Impatiently, they looked out across the hotel lawn to the pier, and beyond it, where the Zaea rode at anchor on the quiet Caribbean Sea. Came at 12 o’clock and still no sign of the tall hero of Captain Blood, Elizabeth and Essex and other screen successes which have thrilled local audiences. The now-retired movie actor, who arrived here on Wednesday, stayed aboard his yacht all forenoon, along with party members.
THE WORD GOES UP
Suddenly, there was a sensation. The word went up that he was coming. Large as life, as handsome as he appears on the screen, Errol Flynn walked into the lobby. Something like a cross between a scream and a sigh issued from a hundred lips. The actor smiled at the demonstration.
When they crowded around him, however, he decided that it was too much of a good thing. Quickly getting into a waiting motorcar, he left the hotel and did not return until the evening. The fans, torn between partial satisfaction and partial disappointment, went away.
The presence of the popular actor, whose exploits on and off the screen have won him wide mention, has made the Myrtle Bank Hotel the focus of local attention. The busiest switchboard in town is the PBX at Myrtle Bank Hotel, where the telephone operator spent half the day yesterday saying, “Yes, he is here. No, he hasn’t come ashore yet”
CLERKS KEPT BUSY
No less busy has been the desk where the clerks have been equally engaged in answering queries as to the whereabouts of Flynn. Autograph books and baby cameras have been greatly in evidence, while the staff have been kept on their toes coping with the extra demand on their time and attention as a result of the increased number of visitors to the hotel.
So far, Flynn’s plans are to remain in town for a week and then go out in the country, perhaps to Montego Bay. His yacht is due to go on drydock for overhauling while he stays ashore and identifies himself more closely with local social life.
Last night, Flynn and his party were guests at a private cocktail party in St Andrew. They later went to the Colony Club where he was entertained with a specially prepared native floor show, featuring leading local entertainers.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
In the spotlight
20
May
Dear Flynnstones,
surely you recognize this pirate debutante in a publicity shooting prior to her role in Captain Blood?
More pics: www.theerrolflynnblog.com…
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Tell lost and found
12
May
Dear Flynnstones,
when Errol ran out of money for his ambitious apple shot „The Story of William Tell“, an angry albergo (hotel) owner of Courmayeur appropriated some of the film material for the unpaid bills.
72 years on the reels have finally been developed and shed new light on the missing master shot.
Here the Errol Flynn stunt-in Jock Easton rehearses with an unknown Italian starlet.
The scences now reside at Cinecittà for the world to see.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
When in Rome
02
May
Dear Flynnstones,
with the world waiting for a new pope to be elected, Rome these days again is caput mundi.
Also Errol was very much in focus, once he arrived at Stazione Termini, visiting St. Peter and doing as the Romans do…(1:20 min.)
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Farewell Maid Mariandl
23
Apr
Dear Flynnstones,
shortly after Easter, Mrs. Waltraut Haas passed over at age 97.
She was to play Maria, the second female lead, in Errol‘s ill fated Will Tell.
Never ill willed and always a good sport, she told us all about it: www.theerrolflynnblog.com…
She is an Austrian actress icon and will forever be remembered as Mariandl, a role that made her famous at the tender age of 17:
She enjoyed 80 more years on screen and stage alongside stars like Curd Juergens, Heinz Ruehmann and Karlheinz Boehm.
Although Flynn missed the appleshot and she never got paid, she spoke about our Hollywood hero fondly.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Tell Finally Told
14
Feb
Dear Flynnstones,
wasn`t it only a matter of time until Errol Flynn`s ill fated William Tell adaptation would be remade?
Now 72 years later the Friedrich Schiller epos about a devout Swiss father battling a tyrannic Austrian army, fittingly once titled “Robin Hood of the Alps” by this blogs very own Ralph, will finally see the light of the big screen.
Director Nick Hamm has his finger on the crossbow trigger.
Here is a first bite of the apple: WILLIAM TELL | OFFICIAL TRAILER | IN CINEMAS NOW | Altitude Films
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
Brutiful
27
Jan
Dear Flynnstones,
an epic picture is coming your way, where Flynn is and isn`t in.
A young lad named Brady Corbet brings us “The Brutalist”. After debuting with “The Childhood of a Leader” and the much loded “Vox Lux”, his third international feature film is a brutally honest and beautifully shot movie starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and a fierce Guy Pearce.
British born and Australian bred Pearce was playing Errol Flynn in the 1996 released “Flynn”, retitled later as “My Forgotten Man”. Quite understandably so, since it is a most forgettable film (User-submitted review of “My Forgotten Man”). Inaccurate, sensationalist and highly influenced by Charles Higham`s hoax biography, it is one of the few flicks I did not bother watching to the finish. But this was by no means Guy Pearce`s fault. Remember, that same year he did “L.A Confidential”, the until then deemed unfilmable novel from James Ellroy, excelling at the role of bespectacled cop, Ed Exley, opposite another great actor from way down under- the New Zealander Russell Crowe. The Aussie and the Kiwi got along great and do so to this date. Guy went on filming the monumental “Memento” with Christopher Nolan and earned an Emmy for the remake of Michael Curtiz` “Mildred Pierce”, courting Kate Winslet. Versatile to the hilt he can be seen in films as diverse as “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”, as action heroic as “Iron Man 3” and as pop corney as “The Time Machine”. He also appeared in two more Academy Award winners, “The Hurt Locker” and “The King`s Speech”. Three may be his lucky charm, because he is nominated this year in the category of Best Supporting Actor.
Harrison Lee Van Buren, a chip of the old prick like the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers and Astors is the epitome of the American capitalist. He wants to do good on his deeds bestowing boons on the less fortunate fellow citizens. He envisions a community center built in honor of his late mother, high on a hill overseeing the small town of Dudleyville, PA. He commissiones the project to Lázló Tóth, an accomplished Hungarian architect well versed in the style of Bauhaus-Brutalism, who escaped the Nazi concentration camps. The artistic intellectual Lazló had to leave his wife Erzébet and niece Zsófia behind, but does everything he can to fit into society in order to be able to bring them over too. Brody picks up right where he left off at his Oscar performance in “The Pianist” and plays Tóth with a subtle, humble and weary inclination towards the American Dream. These two antagonists feed off each other`s energy, and mix very much like the planned center`s components of concrete and Carrara marble. Tóth is aware that whenever he is put on a pedestal by his benefactor Van Buren, a brutalist by nature, it can turn into a hangman`s chair at a moment`s notice. Survival is the dish of the day and his austere architecture is the symbol to go along with it.
Corbet`s film is constructed like a two part theatre play. It has an overture, an epilogue and an interval of 15 minutes like in the good old movie time days of a David Lean. Incredibly it boasts 215 minutes, was filmed in VistaVision, and wrapped up in mere 34 days at a budget of only $10 million.
Another Aussie film and music video director, John Hillcoat, who worked with him on three occasions, elaborates on Guy Pearce`s fortes in a GQ article: “Australia is a remote colony…and being a colony we have this antiauthoritarian attitude and we`re quite irreverent. It is an extreme place. We have a kind of not-giving-a-fuck to us, not playing by the rules, not doing what`s expected.”
Our man Flynn would agree.
Enjoy,
— shangheinz
