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Above what, since 1972, has been The Comedy Club;
And before it was Ciro’s, it was the Club Seville:
— Tim
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/in-and-down-under-like-flynn-frank-mcnally-on-a-stereotypical-irishman-1.4121795
22
Dec
The author says that there is no relationship between Errol and the Bounty. Most of you would know by now that Errol’s mother was a Young and related to midshipman Young who was on the Bounty. This was researched by Bob Casey of Hobart for his book Sword of Fate.
The cocktail sounds good though. Sorry I dont have the ingredients or I would be trying it!
— tassie devil
Hark! ‘The Errol’ Moonbeams Shine!
21
Dec
America calling, PW …
Just in time for Christmastime – Our Lady in London – publishes Errol’s secret recipe!
“The Spectator magazine’s Christmas special is doubly festive this year, [including] an entry from journalist and high-society member Petronella Wyatt revealing details … of her favourite seasonal cocktail, “The Errol”, named after its inventor Errol Flynn.” [The Irish Times]
The Spectator Christmas Special
“My favoured cocktail for the Christmas alcoholiday is an invention of Errol Flynn’s. Flynn taught it to my late friend Diana, Countess of Wilton, back in the 1950s. Diana was a perfected presence, a swan among swans, and Flynn, who was living in Rome at the time, used to take her to lunch. Far from being a vulgar seducer, he liked to talk about Socrates and had wanted to become a writer. He was a tragic man, trapped by his own physical beauty. His eyes, the colour of Anatolian waters, had a terrible sadness. But he taught her to make a cocktail of such subtlety that it is like drinking moonbeams.”
“‘The Errol’ is a variation on a White Lady and I publish the recipe here for the first time. Into a cocktail shaker, pour 1 part gin, 1 part Cointreau and 1 part freshly squeezed lemon juice. Add a teaspoon of white rum. Shake with ice and serve in martini glasses.”
Thank you, Petronella, and Erroltime tidings!
— Tim
An Instant Christmas Quiz
19
Dec
Who is he? Who is he?
Here are some roundabout clues:
¤ He played drums for Beatles.
¤ Yes he did.
¤ Imagine that.
¤ Was in with a Flynn
¤ All Things Must Pass
¤ Played one of the coolest drum parts in rock hstory:
— Tim
Pray Tell!
17
Dec
Errol Flynn’s William Tell
“The Story of the Uncompleted 1953 CinemaScope Film”
— Tim
Nay Paree
14
Dec
Errol gets a 20K pre-Christmas bonus for cancelling his “reconciliation trip” to Paris with Lili.
December 14, 1936
Sheila Graham
Dallas Morning News
Errol Flynn demanded – and received – a $20,000 bonus for cutting off his reconciliation trip with wife Lili Damita, returning to Hollywood in the kiddie story, Prince and the Pauper.
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Good-looking Hollywood gossip columnist Sheila Graham had a thing for the very virile Errol, a thing that made her legend of literature lover, F. Scott Fitzgerald, very jealous. At one point, the Mighty Flynn lived in a Garden of Allah bungalow next door to Fitzgerald’s. Sheila resided a block away, but often stayed with Fitzgerald at the Garden of Allah. She wrote the book on Hollywood’s most notorious upscale hotel of hedonism.
— Tim
Friday the 13th, 1939 @ WB
13
Dec
“On Friday, January 13, 1939, a party was held on Stage 5 (now Stage 15) at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. The “Gay Lady Saloon” set from Warner’s Technicolor western spectacular Dodge City was still in use, having been dressed with additional props to celebrate that day’s Friday the 13th, and to poke fun at various other superstitions. Here is a selection of photos from that gathering, the original negatives of which were recently found deep in the WB archives.”
Henry O’Neill, Alan Hale, Michael Curtiz. Errol
Errol & Olivia
Errol, between Rosemary and Priscilla Lane
The Dodge City “Gay Lady Saloon” Bar
— Tim
The Perfect Specimen
11
Dec
December 11, 1937
WHAT THE PICTURE DID FOR ME
The Perfect Specimen: Errol Flynn, Joan Blondell — It is a natural. Plenty of clever stuff and Flynn and Blondell are good in the roles as the perfect man and the gal who knows what’s good for him — A.E. Goodman, Columbia Theatre, Columbia City, Ind. General Patronage.
— Tim
Twelfth Century Warfare at Warners
11
Dec
December 8, 1937
Los Angeles Examiner
RATHBONE AND FLYNN HURT IN ROBIN HOOD
This Twelfth century warfare is really tough.
So much mused Basil Rathbone, Errol Flynn and Sol Gorss yesterday as their names were added to the list of Robin Hood casualties.
Rathbone, who went through four years of World War without a scratch, came out of the Nottingham castle melee with a spear wound in the foot.
Flynn had a bump on his head, the result of a collision with a scabbard.
Gorss had a twisted ankle. He was stepped on by an extra after being “killed” by an arrow from Robin Hood’s bow.*
* The prolific Mr. Gorss:
— Tim
