Flynnie reveals his real-life philosophy of life to “Sister” Bette.
— Tim
“The Experts have Spoken”
04
Jun
“It’s officious”, I mean “official”! According to experts of Rottingham, (probably descendants of their shire’s infamous Sheriff of Rottingham), Errol Flynn was NOT the Best Robin Hood. Connery was, Sean Connery.
Yes, you read correctly. Next, we may also learn that Errol was also not the best Captain Blood, George Armstrong Custer, Geoffrey Thorpe, or Gentleman Jim. The Experts have Spoken.
www-nottinghampost-com.cdn.ampproject.org…
“The Best Robin Hood”:
Also-Ran Errol Flynn:
— Tim
“Restored to its Past Glory”
03
Jun
“On October 15th, 1938, Warner Brothers opened The State Theatre as a test market for new films. The state-of-the-art cinema was built in record-time — just four months — for a whopping $70,000. “The Sisters” starring Errol Flynn and Bette Davis was the film on opening day. Adult admission was 30 cents for matinees, 35 cents after 5 p.m. Children’s tickets cost just 15 pennies.”
“As it approaches the 80th anniversary of its opening, the State Theatre has been recognized as a State College historic site.”
onwardstate-com.cdn.ampproject.org…
— Tim
Errol & The Blushing Bride
02
Jun
Oakland Tribune
Sunday, December 28, 1941
“Errol Flynn’s been tipping the waiter for Jackie Gately, the prize show girl.”
“American glamour girl Jackie Gately was a burlesque dancer who worked both in the US and Europe. At the age of 17, she was picked as the most attractive girl at the Paradise Restaurant on Broadway in 1938. After that she spent a season dancing in European night clubs, chaperoned by her mother. She appeared in a ‘soundie’ titled The Blushing Bride released in 1942, doing a sort of striptease as the bride gets ready for her nuptial bed, removing her wedding gown, but at the end she is still wearing her undergarments. In 1942, her short career as a glamour girl ended when she married.”
She was “The Girl from Yell County”
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— Tim
67 Years Ago Today
30
May
May 30, 1951 – The Canberra Times
ERROL FLYNN TO
ENTERTAIN KOREAN TROOPS
HOLLYWOOD – Tuesday.
Jack Benny and Errol Flynn
will head troupe to ‘entertain
soldiers in Japan and Korea,
the Hollywood Co-ordinating-
Committee of the United Services
Organisation announced yesterday’
— Tim
76 Years Ago Today
29
May
JOHN BARRYMORE SHUFFLED OFF HIS MORTAL COIL – MAY 29, 1942
A GREAT PROFILE OF THE GREAT PROFILE www.tcm.com…
A COCK AND BULL STORY?
According to Raoul Walsh’s autobiography:
“(Raoul Walsh) snatched actor John Barrymore’s barely cold body from the (Pierce Brothers) funeral home and seated it on Errol Flynn’s sofa. ”Errol came in (from an intense session at the Cock and Bull), let out a piercing scream, and ran out of the house.” From behind an oleander bush, Flynn yelled at Walsh, ”Get him out of the house, you crazy Irish bastard, before I have a heart attack!””
Walsh repeated the story in the 1973 documentary “The Men Who Made the Movies”.
Errol has an essentially equivalent account in My Wicked, Wicked Ways.
The Pierce Brothers Mortuary
(Photo taken at the wake of Thelma Todd)
The (original) Cock and Bull on the Sunset Strip:
Is this story true? Or, is it just cock and bull? …. Plus, was it an inspiration for Weekend at Bernie’s?
— Tim
Opening Night – In Like Flynn!
27
May
“OPENING NIGHT FILM & PARTY (IN LIKE FLYNN) 29 June 6.30pm”
@ The Royal Open Air Theater, in Winton, Queensland, Australia
www.outbackqueensland.com…
“The main venue is the Royal Open Air Theatre (pictured), celebrating its 100th birthday and the pride of a town that claims Waltzing Matilda and Qantas among its creations.”
“Kicking off the program will be In Like Flynn, a new film by Russell Mulcahy (Razorback, Highlander) about Errol Flynn’s adventures in Australia before he left for Hollywood in the 1930s and became a movie swashbuckler. Thomas Cocquerel stars as Flynn.”
“The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival, Winton, Queensland.
9 days / 30 films / A zillion stars”
“Winton’s Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival is a film festival like no other. It celebrates Australian film and culture under the stars of Winton in Outback Queensland. The Festival combines an incomparable program of classic and contemporary Australian films with special events, conversations and masterclasses with film makers, directors, actors and actresses, kids club and special events.
Join the stars on the red carpet for the Opening Night, or tour to the sites where major feature films were made.”
— Tim
