The Man Whose Poem Inspired Amanda McBroom’s “Errol Flynn” and Whose Daughter Built a Mansion on Old Mulholland Farm
The Mansion Helen Hunt Built on Old Mulholland Farm After Justin Timberhead & Jessica Biel Lived In:
— Tim
A Very Merry Christmas to EFB members
21
Dec
To all Errol Flynn Blog members, wishing you a Very Merry Christmas from Australia! Here’s my annual handmade Christmas Greeting Card creation.
My first time posting it on EFB, as this year I’ve included an ode to Errol … he being the Santa (from Escape Me Never) escaping the frame at stage left! Enjoy, I raise my glass!
Cheers, Philip
— Philip
A Christmas Errol
21
Dec
Dear fellow Flynn fans,
still looking for the perfect christmas present?
Invaluable auctions off an item featuring our Hollywood hero. If you look carefully he lingers in the back of the picture in his typical Lord of Shanghai pose (www.theerrolflynnblog.com…).
Get a great for a grand: www.invaluable.com…
Mingle bells,
— shangheinz
The Finest Ever Robin Hood
20
Dec
www.leftlion.co.uk/read/2017/january/6-greatest-robin-hoods-on-film-and-tv…
“The finest ever Robin Hood, Errol Flynn was a man who knew how to buckle a swash. No one has matched him in nearly eighty years of trying, and no one has even come close to filling a pair of tights as well as our Errol.”
— Tim
The Palm Beach Story
19
Dec
Visiting with the Vietors
Last year I published a post entitled “A Stay at Palm Beach with the Jell-O Queen” about Errol & Lili’s visit/vacation at Southwood, the prominent mansion of Eleanore Emily Woodward Vietor.*
In response to that post, I received correspondence from a descendent of the Vietors, who has very generously sent some clarifying and enhancing information, including in part the following news articles, the first of which reports (with a corrected date) on the party given for Errol & Lili in 1938. Look at that guest list! The Crockers (parents of Zaca owner Templeton Crocker), the Pillsburys (with all their dough), Howie Hughes, and E.F. Hutton (www.youtube.com…), among many other deep pockets and Cafe Society-Era socialites.
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Southwood also had a fascinating JFK connection:
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See, also, for an account of the Robin Hood Parody film starring Errol, Lili, Paulette Goddard, et al.:
* Southwood was only a very short walk from Mar-a-Lago, the new Winter White House, designed by the very same architect, Marion Sims Wyeth. … Not that anyone who was anyone on Palm Beach in those days would deign to undertake such a horrendously plebeian trek without chauffeur and vetements formels.
— Tim
A Distingushed Duo
19
Dec
Who is this distinguished duo with The Baron and Swoonatra??
– Alliterative rivals.
– Very well known, connected and influential in their day.
– One has a well known son.
— Tim
Titchfield Hotel & Navy Island Memories!
17
Dec
Laura Barre writes us via the Mail Bag!
I was at the Titchfield in the early 60’s when Rex Rand bought it, and it was called “Jamaica Reef hotel”. The natives were all still talking about Erroll and how he won that island across from the hotel in a card game. The hotel was run down, but beautiful, and the breezes felt like soft, wet silk against your skin. I must have been one of the first people there after he bought it, because the parties had not yet started, and it wasn’t organized at all. I do recall getting really dressed for dinner in a chiffon gown, and thinking the surroundings were those of the most lush, tropical paradise I could imagine. I so want to return for nostalgia purposes. How lovely that some of it is still there.
Laura
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Laura, thanks so much for writing! I love the Titchfield Hotel (Jamaica Reef) as it became known. And all of Error’s time there. My friend Dennis Mullen was able to get onto the restricted military base where the hotel stood and to see the remains of the 3 pools, part of the floor of the ballroom and the path through the lush greens that he was told everybody used. Do you have any photos of the hotel?
I’d like to put up your comments to me as a Mail Bag item on the blog if you don’t mind? It would be fascinating for the blog to read what you said …
Here are some of Dennis’s photos. Two are from the resort on Navy Island. That is Dennis in the photos.
Regards,
David
David DeWitt/Admin/The Errol Flynn Blog
Sent from Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
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Wish I had taken photos! I remember the paths well, as I was worried about tripping in heels. I remember going on a long path of steps to then where we dined, in a circle, surrounded by these tall trees, all seeming very overgrown. I was staying in a little cottage which only had a ceiling fan to cool off, and my hair continued to never really “dry”. There were night blooming bushes outside my door that were like perfume. Go ahead if you like and upload my comments. What’s going on with Navy Island now? I’m intending to go back up there. Rex had sent a car for me that picked me up in Kingston, and I’ll never forget those scary winding mountain roads, and going through Kingston with lots of people in the roads carrying on. A novel experience for a young woman. I ‘ll bet they are still telling stories about Erroll around there!
Laura
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Thanks, Laura!
— David DeWitt
Bend Them Like The Baron
16
Dec
Flynn, Kennedy & Miss Congo???
15
Dec
Was there a connection???
As Flynn in Florida research continues I quite unexpectedly came across this reported connection between Errol and one of Joe Kennedy’s early films. … leading one to wonder what happened to the rest of Errol’s reportedly “huge collection of silent films”? Any or all also at MoMA?
— Tim
