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Calling all Errol fans on this blog! Every single one of you! Duty calls!

26 Sep

This is a follow up to the
tassie devil  post!
Here is the website to vote for a name – no – for THEEE NAME of this new hybrid tulip flower of Tasmania! What would be the most fitting name for this new hybrid bright red tulip of Tasmania!
Now blood is red – right! Therefore the name has to be none other then “Captain Blood”! 
Vote now! Would anybody disagree with this name?
www.vdqbulbs.com…
There are many reasons – think about it! Think hard! You maybe have even other vital points for this perfect fit!
I say: 1. Captain Blood

2. Blood is red – bright red as the
tulip!
3. Errol was Captain Blood!
4. Errol was a son of Tasmania where this new bright red tulip emerges as Errol did!
5. Errol was the Tasmanian Devil – ah devil – ah hell – red as fire we are told!
6. Errol was a red hot blooded man! Any dispute?
7. The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to land on the shores of Tasmania and named it Anthoonij van Diemenslandt = Van Diemen's Land.
In 1803, the island was colonized by the British as a penal colony and named officially Van Diemen's Land. And what does a penal colony spells to you of those hard times experienced by so many and including none other than Errol's ancestors (maternal side) – BLOOD – sweat and tears!
8. What a coincidence – the nursery's name is Van Diemen! A first class fit! Wow!
9. Errol's number is 9 – the perfect number of success!  Captain Blood made him into an over night star and so will be the new bright red tulip of the Van Diemen Nursery if named “Captain Blood”!
“Captain Blood” is a natural for this tulip, a no miss affair, a seller of the highest caliber!
Join me in this vote – it's your duty if you are a true Errol fan!
A cheer to the Errol of the past, a cheer to Errol into the future and a cheer to Errol who will live on and on in a tulip flower called “Captain Blood”!
You know how much Errol loved nature, he could describe nature more vividly and better than any writer ever could!
This tulip would be his Oscar right from the land of his birth!
Join me and make it happen!
Tina

— Tina

 
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King Solomon's Mines

24 Sep

I just saw “King Solomon's Mines” on TCM and it is a great movie!
Throughout the movie I visualized Errol playing the part! He would have been great in it, as a matter of facts he would have been excellent!
How in heavens name could he have missed this great opportunity to a fabulous reenactment of himself? Who advised him? Exchanging “King Solomon's Mines” for “Kim” somebody sure was out for lunch! Was Errol that much his own enemy or fallacy? Where were his advisers – did he have any?
I read he didn't wanted to go to Africa. Errol always liked to go to new countries and at that time he never made a movie in Africa – so? He said he wanted to go to India, because he was never there, which is not quite true as he was in parts of India on his way from New Guinea to England. Was Errol that much his own enemy? I very often think of the old proverb “with friends like that who needs enemies” and I think Errol had a lot of friends like that. I always maintained that Errol was a most naive and gullible man, which brought him in a lot of hot waters because he trusted people who so often ill advised him, betrayed him or took him to the cleaners! Thinking of it one can only feel sorry and despair for him! I know it is past and gone, but nevertheless we are here to discuss him – the good and the not so good.
Anybody having any answers to that puzzle of Errol?  I hope the many of our members have something to say about this subject and voice their inside knowledge and opinions?

— Tina

 
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Earl Conrad on Errol Flynn

15 Sep

“He went about with an inward readiness for disaster, probably
the prime mood of his whole existence.”
~Earl Conrad on Errol
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— In Search of Errol Flynn

 
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The William Tell Story!

03 Sep

This is an interesting cover as this story originates in “Cinema Retro” #16 – 2010 (The essential guide to movies of the 60' &70's).
Tony Earnshaw writer for “Cinema Retro” wrote a six page article with wonderful pictures of  Errol Flynn's making and failing of  “William Tell”. This story in 2010 was due to Jack Cardiff and Errol's extraordinary efforts to bring this movie into being. The article covers  the interview with Jack Cardiff by Tony Earnshaw just shortly before his passing in 2009.

Some maybe unknown details of the making of the movie!

Only 30 minutes of footage was completed on this film before the project
was abandoned. Had it been completed on time it would've been the first
independent movie filmed in CinemaScope.

Errol Flynn exhausted
almost all of his personal fortune ($500,000) in making this film, which
he envisioned as his comeback. The Alpine village that Flynn had constructed as the set for the film
remains today and is a tourist attraction in Europe.


Originally, Errol Flynn was to produce this film with Alexander Salkind (Pakal
Film). Failing to find further funding, Salkind signed over his portion
of the contract to Tony Roma (PAI Produttori Associati Italiani &
Roma Film), who in turn signed his contract over to Count Alfonso Fossataro of
Junior Film. The film fell apart when Fossataro did not live up to his
end of the contract.

Village sets were to be built at Cinecitta Studios in Rome, but were
eventually built on location in and around Courmayeur.


— Tina

 
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Paintings Errol Flynn Owned

21 Aug

Now that I have a little time I would like to place an information on the blog which I have for quite some time.  I asked David to make an Errol' Paintings tab for me to put all the information I have gathered.  Thank you David for obliging me.

It is quite well known that Errol Flynn owned several priceless oil paintings of which two are always shown in one way or another or mentioned in articles or books.  Not to much is known about the any other paintings and how many were there really?
Has anybody facts and figures?  In addition, does anybody know who owns what painting today?

Let's start with one, which is so well known and Errol love it:

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Paul Gauguin “Famille Tahitienne”

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or “Bathers”, a title which is not well known for the painting.
Painted in 1902, oil on canvas, size 39 1/4 x 28 3/4 (92 cm x 73cm)

This painting was purchase in 1997 by Steve Wynn of Wynn Resorts Ltd. in Las Vegas.  I wonder who owned it between 1959 and 1997?  If anybody is going to Las Vegas may have a visit with the painting!
 
This is the link I found:
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Paul Gauguin, Famille Tahitienne (1902), around $35
million, 1997. Buyer: Steve Wynn.  Broker:
Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd., London. Auction record for the artist: $24.2
million.

www.artnet.com…

One very funny thing about the link above is – that it is written by Andrew Decker who writes for artnet.com… and gave me the information of the sale.  The family name is the same – what coincident – but there is no relation to John Decker – I inquired.

There is a website of Wynn Resorts and the picture is in the inventory.  If you want a long corporate reading here it is – have fun.

WYNN RESORTS LTD (Form: S-1/A, Received: 10/07/2002 08:16:38)

That's all for today have fun!

— Tina

 
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The Road to Freedom Sean Flynn Trailer!

20 Aug

Hello, David:

I am a producer with the feature film The Road To Freedom,
which chronicles the last tragic days of Sean Flynn, the adventurer son
of Screen Gem, Errol Flynn. We will be released in theaters next month.
In the meantime we are on Netflix for all those who can't see our
limited theatrical release.. We need all the support we can to make this
great film have the impact we had intended. If you can spread the word
about The Road To Freedom we as filmmakers will be grateful. Have a
wonderful weekend.

Cordially,

Blu de Golyer


— David DeWitt

 
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Decker Art Gallery – Outtakes?

15 Aug

From Producer's Library: John Decker Art Gallery Visit – Outtakes or rehearsal shots?
No Sound track!
www.zacapublishing.com…

— David DeWitt

 
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Vote for Errol!

11 Aug

I have been sent this e-mail from a friend on the TCM Classic Film Union and it is a website where we all can vote for Errol to be #1 – I hope you participate – have fun making Errol #1!  Errol must have a lot of fans voting for him as he is #5 on the list already.

Bashor 2202 – his e-mail reads:
I am writing you
to tell you of a classic movie fan website I have launched. It is a
Hall of Fame shot where classic movie fans decide the inductees. Four
times a year the highest vote getter will be inducted into this online
Hall of Fame. The categories are Actors, Actresses, Films, Directors and
a Behind the Scenes Person. One from each category will be inducted
each session. This is not a solicitation. It is absolutely free to vote
for your favorites, I make no money from your votes. We do ask for name
and email on ballot to make sure of one vote per person during induction
period. We do not sell any of your information. Go to www.silverscreenhalloffame.com…
if you would like to vote. Thank you.

— Tina

 
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ANOTHER ARE YOU BEING SERVED REFERENCE

08 Aug

Came across still another Errol reference on the British sitcom ARE YOU BEING SERVED–they are trying to drum up business at the department store and comment that a famous golfer was signing golf balls in the sports section.  They wonder who what famous person would be appropriate to autograph trousers and Captain Peacock mentions, “The only name that comes to mind is Errol Flynn!”

— meffjiller

 
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Who is the woman?

01 Aug

Anyone know the name of the woman next to Errol Flynn? One of her lovers? Thank you for your help?

— Fabienne

 
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