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Starring Errol and Christopher Lee
— Tim
Archive for the ‘Television’ Category
“Flynn’s Look Alike” — Duncan Regehr
19
Jan
My Wicked Wicked Ways
Washington Post Review
January 20, 1985
The story out of Hollywood is that they sorted through more than 400 resumes looking for someone to play Errol Flynn. Some were familiar names, most were not. Which was fine, since the producers wanted a face that was both fresh and familiar — fresh to the American television audience but familiar in its resemblance to Flynn’s.
Out of the stack emerged Duncan Regehr.
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Scene by Scene Comparisons
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Full Movie
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Fare Thee Well, Rhonda
17
Oct
Spellbindingly gorgeous Rhonda Fleming has died, at age 97, on October 14. Fare thee well, Rhonda
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In 1952 on the Abbott & Costello Hour she sang “I’m in Love with a Wonderful Guy” about Errol:
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A Video Summary of Her Spectacular Life & Career:
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The Baron Plays The Duke — Errol’s Last Live Show
29
Sep
September 29, 1959
The Red Skelton Show
Filmed at (CBS) Television City, at the famed Studio 33, the home of the Red Skelton Hour and Show, the Carol Burnett Show, I Love Mama, the Mary Tyler Moore Hour, the Price is Right, Match Game, Hollywood Squares, the Steve Allen Comedy Hour, and many, many others. With it’s massive studios, and other favorable conditions, Television City very powerfully signalled and helped make possible the relocation of television’s epicenter from New York to LA.
~ “Red Skelton portrays hobo Freddie the Freeloader and Flynn his friend, “the Duke.” After a group of beatniks, including Beverly Aadland, mistakes Freddie’s shack for a coffee bar, Freddie is informed by a policeman that all bums have been ordered by the city council to leave town by sundown. Freddie and the Duke decide that the only way they will be able to stay in town is to open their own beatnik coffee bar. Singer Scott Engel (who later went on to fame as Scott Walker of the Walker Brothers) sings Paper doll.”
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— Tim
Traveling Time & World with the Errol Flynn Theatre
18
Mar
1000th Night of Don Juan (January 2, 1958) (On the Road from Venice to Padua)
Declasse (April 5, 1957)
Girl in Blue Jeans (February 22, 1956)(1950’s England)
Fortunes of War (October 11, 1956) (Revolutionary France)
Rescued (April 13, 1957)
The Duel (June 6, 1956)
The Kinsman (June 12, 1956)
The Sealed Room (January 12, 1956)
Strange Auction (Ireland) (May 17, 1957)
Wife of the Czar (Russia) (September 16, 1956)
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