— David DeWitt
“Errol Flynn Asked to Vacate Apartment”
04
Sep
September 3, 1943
Los Angeles Times
Errol Flynn Asked to Vacate Apartment
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That’s all I have! Only the who, some of the what, an approximation of when, but not any of the where, why, or how!
Could this be a Garden of Allah story?
I don’t have access at this location to LA Times archives. Anyone out there in Flynnland know?
— Tim
Labor Day in Mexico, 1937
02
Sep
Reine Davies
Hollywood Parade
Los Angeles Times
The film colony’s activities over the Labor Day weekend were as varied as are the talents of the film players who create your screen entertainment.
The holiday found Dolores Del Rio, Cedric Gibbons, Errol Flynn and Lili Damita cruising down to Ensenada, and other Hollywoodites at the Mexican Resort were Gene Reynolds, Jeanette MacDonald and George Mason.
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Baja was the place to be, especially if sailing, Ensenada, on the “Baja Riviera”. Though this article doesn’t mention it, Errol, Lili, Dolores and Cedric, would have certainly stayed at the magnificent La Playa Ensenada, built by Jack Dempsey (possibly in partnership with Al Capone),a haven for Hollywood celebrities for much of the Thirties, until Mexico outlawed gambling in 1938. Margarita Carmen Cansino used to dance there, before she blossomed into Rita Hayworth. Most all the heavyweights were there – Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Johnny Weissmuller, Myrna Loy, Lana Turner, William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies, Bing Crosby, among many others. Errol sailed there frequently, on Cheerio II, Sirocco, and Zaca. Flynn was fined once for wearing shorts in town… but that’s a story for another day.
Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard at the Hotel La Playa Ensenada, 1937
Dolores Del Rio and admiring friends at the Hotel La Playa Ensenada, 1930s
— Tim
Fringe Connections
02
Sep
This post addresses the fringe Flynn-connections in EFB Author Rider McDowell’s highly-regarded Off-Broadway play, Fringe Deaths
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PAYTON’S PLACE
Barbara Payton’s place in Errol’s world is summarized this way in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye by John O’Dowd:
“Few actresses in Tinseltown’s century-long history, with the possible exception of Frances Farmer, have undergone such extreme privations or suffered more extracted indignities than the beautiful, doomed Barbara Payton (1927-1967).”
“Inelegantly described by Howard Hughes associate Johnny Meyer as ‘Hollywood’s biggest trollop,’ Payton spent her early years in Minnesota and the Texan dustbowl of Odessa, before moving to Los Angeles at age 21 in search of stardom. Upon her arrival the aspiring actress promptly entered into a string of dalliances with all manner of showbiz types, including aging Lothario Errol Flynn, Bob Hope, Batman & Robin’s Robert Lowery and Gregory Peck, as well as assorted lowlifes, clingers-on and neophytes, though she ultimately rejected Hughes himself as ‘too strange.’ The bulk of her conquests were married, which did little to endear her to the womenfolk of Tinseltown, though as Payton’s former lover Steve Hayes puts it ‘she didn’t seem to care about anything except getting laid and having a good time.”
GEORGE REEVES
The Adventures of Superman star had at least one connection to The Adventures of Robin Hood star through Jerry Giesler, who petitioned for a reinvestigation of Reeves’ mysterious suicide as a possible homocide.
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JACK RUBY
Jacob Rubinstein’s connection to Errol was through one of Errol’s other famous legal eagles, Melvin Belli. “King of Torts” Belli represented Ruby after he was charged with killing Lee Harvey Oswald, essentially arguing that he (Ruby) was a patsy forced to murder another patsy.
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ALFALFA (STYMIE & SCOTTY)
Though Errol wasn’t a Little Rascal, he certainly was a Big Rascal. Here’s Alfalfa appearing to channel some of Errol’s charm and swag with the ladies.
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Here’s Errol with very popular child star Scotty Beckett, who Alfalfa replaced in Our Gang.
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Last but not least, Matthew “Stymie” Beard was in Captain Blood!
— Tim
CATEGORY 5
31
Aug
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As I sit in Florida, only a hundred yards or so from one of Errol’s favorite vacation homes and hideaways in Florida, I watch and wait for signs of Hurricane Dorian, which, no matter how historically notable it becomes, will never reach the league of Category 5 Flynn.
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—————————–> ERROL, THE (SUPER)HUMAN CYCLONE
— Tim
Houston, You Had a Party
29
Aug
“Bedlam in Diamonds – Seventy Years Ago'””
The Shamrock Hotel Grand Opening
Starring Errol Flynn, Ginger Rogers, Dorothy Lamour, Lana Turner, ~ a cast of approximately 170 more celebrities, and Fifty Thousand extras
On March 17, 1949, the iconic Shamrock Hotel opened with a huge shindig. Hollywood celebrities including Ginger Rogers and Errol Flynn came to town for the grand opening, and Houstonians paid $42 a head to go to the dinner. About 3,000 people showed up in total, a thousand more than organizers had expected. Rich and famous attendees, even Houston’s mayor, ended up dining on hallway floors. Although the Houston Chronicle described the night as “bedlam in diamonds,” it is still remembered as one of the biggest social events in Houston history.
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— Tim
Over the Bridge, Not Far Away – A Guest House for Errol — At Mike Curtiz’s Cotswold Cottage
28
Aug
“Besides the one-bedroom, two-bathroom main house, there are two guesthouses.
One, built as an office, has a cathedral ceiling, a full bathroom and French doors that lead to the gardens. The other guest suite, reached by a bridge and set above the garage, was sometimes used by “The Adventures of Robin Hood” star Errol Flynn.”
www-latimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org…
“Over a bridge and through a salvaged church door sits the onetime private escape of the swashbuckling actor Errol Flynn”
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— Tim
August 27, 1936
27
Aug
August 27, 1936
Harrison Carroll
Evening Herald Express
Errol Flynn’s story will now be appearing any month now in the Cosmopolitan. He describes it as an incident in his life.
————————- Cosmopolitan Magazine, November 1936, featuring Errol’s Beam Ends —————————
— Tim
