released today in Region 4 @ Amazon and “Region 0” @ Best Buy… buyer beware as to playability!
— Karl
Lost Again – The Mark of Zorro
27
May
May 26, 1938
Louella Parsons
Los Angeles Examiner
Errol Flynn is lost again between Havana and Hollywood.
May 28, 1938
Erskine Johnson
Los Angeles Examiner
Fox turned down Warners’ offer of $150,000 for film rights to Douglas Fairbanks’ old picture,
The Mark of Zorro. They wanted it for Errol Flynn.
— Tim
Born at Battery Point
25
May
Queen Alexandra Hospital
Hobart, Tasmania – 1908
Errol was born in Battery Point at the Queen Alexandra Hospital on June 20, 1909.
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— Tim
When Who Lost His Finger?
24
May
A Cutting Edge Quiz
Who wrote on the image below that he “lost his finger”?
— Tim
Sir Robin of Locksley
24
May
May 23, 1938
Hollywood Citizen News
Taking their cue from the success of The Adventures of Robin Hood, Warner Bros. are digging in making preparations for a sequel to be ready for release next spring. Title is Sir Robin of Locksley,, an original by Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. MIller. Erich Korngold already is at work on the score. Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland are slated for the leads. Virtually all concerned in the scheduled follow-up contributed to The Adventures of Robin Hood.
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Surely Alan Hale would have been in it, too!
— Tim
The Thief of Bagdad
24
May
May 23, 1938
Sidney Skolsky
Hollywood Citizen News
The Warners, because of the success Robin Hood, are trying to buy The Thief of Bagdad, another Douglas Fairbanks hit, for Errol Flynn.
— Tim
Mail Bag! Errol & Dorothy Malone!
23
May
Thanks to Karl Holmberg!
Too Much, Too Soon …
— David DeWitt
Silver River @ Warners Downtown LA, 1948
22
May
May 22, 1948
Silver River
Lowell E. Redelings
Hollywood Citizen News
There’s a scene in Silver River where Ann Sheridan, on a wagon trek West, sleeps out under the stars. Errol Flynn bunks beneath a wagon for the night, but Ann thinks he’s inside the wagon.
It rains before morning, Ann comes scampering to the wagon, dragging her blankets behind her, and starts to scramble under the wagon.
“Please, lady,” exclaims Errol in feigned indignation, “you might at least first knock on the wheel.”
Whereupon, with a black look of hate (Errol loves her, but she can’t stand HIM, you know) climbs into the wagon, and Errol on the ground below asks questions relating to her private life with her husband.
All this is meat and drink to Errol Flynn’s fans. You could almost hear them drooling in their emotions yesterday at the Warner Hollywood Theater, and there were probably similar demonstrations at the Downtown and Wiltern.
Silver River is a good “schmaltzy” movie entertainment. it is tailored stuff for Errol – the bold, dashing hero of many another frontier epic. It gives Mr. Flynn a chance to wear those frontier clothes, in which he makes the wardrobe department so proud of itself, and too, he has plenty of elbow room in the wide-open spaces to woo Ann between walking over men in his climb to riches and fame.
Errol is a gambler this time out. The time is the Post-Civil War period, and the Westward movement is in full force. Errol acquires some gambling equipment and from this small beginning becomes a silver tycoon in the hub of the silver empire – Silver City.
Ann Sheridan is married to a mining expert – but so far as Errol is concerned he’s just in the way of his conquest of Ann. The Indians finally get her husband, and Errol moves in quickly to make her his wife.
Thereafter, the plot moves to a dramatic climax.
— Tim
Hats Off to Ronald Reagan
21
May
May 21, 1948
Sidney Skolsky
Hollywood Citizen News
Ronald Reagan: He is an actor who is interested in the welfare of actors and in their position in the industry. He has advanced from a supporting player to a leading man. He is always to know what pictures are being made at his studio, and when hears of any he likes, he makes a bid for it. He is very pleased that he is no longer told they wanted Errol Flynn for a certain picture, but that they are going to give it to him.
— Tim
Flynn On Ray De O’Fan
20
May
May 16, 1936
Ray De O’Fan
Los Angeles Examiner
Smith Ballew as master of ceremonies on “Chateau” will introduce as his guests Errol Flynn, one of Hollywood’s newer stars; comic George Jessel, singer June Knight and grappler Man Mountain Dean. This in addition to Smith’s warbling and Victor Young’s music (KFL 5:30 PM)
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“Chateau” refers to the Shell Chateau radio show. Smith Ballew was a very talented musician, who sang and played with many of the greatest musicians of the 20s and 30s. Following Shell Chateau, he became a ‘B’ Western star.
Jessel with Norma Jean
The Vivacious June Knight
Man Mountain Dean, Dizzy Dean, Daffy Dean
The Great Vincent Young
— Tim
