Olympiads! Here is a Special Photos Posting just for our Authors! I found these pics on an Ancestry website including this one of Errol with Anna Neagle… The older gentleman is name Muntz, I think. He is the “ancestor” of Lisa Wallis who has the copyright on these pics… but we post them here for our enjoyment nonetheless, Pirates that we are!
Other photos in the Treasure Chest (see attachments) are of Sammy Stein the wrestler-Actor from Gentleman Jim seen with Errol, John Wayne, and Abott & Costello…
To kick off the new Blog Video section I created this compilation of some of the greatest sword fights of Errol Flynn's screen career. This includes the duels in Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk, The Adventures of Don Juan and Against All Flags.
There are many similar tributes on YouTube and elsewhere, but this is mine and I think it's Great! The soundtracks are from Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood. Some of the photos are from here…there are a couple of repeated photos.
Found this… a tribute song to Errol. Nice to see our younger generation having some appreciation of the Colonel. I'm sure he'd be impressed.
A note here: “here are the lyrics to “Errol”, by Australian Crawl. I had to look up all the words on the net, as of course, no-one can ever understand what the hell James Reyne was singing half the time.”
Convict state It just don't rate He want to get higher Apple Isle, the inbred smile He's going to get by'a His mother's hand He could not stand He left for the islands To fish and hunt He take a punt The New Guinea Highlands
Ohhh Errol I would give everything just to be like him
He had to go The Sirocco He's sailin the high seas Hollywood, Captain Blood He's billing the Nazi's Took a rebel stand Contraband Coast of Mexico He want to pounce Like an animal To girls he just can't say no
Ohhh Errol I would give everything just to be like him(x2)
He had them all Screamin for more He play the wild scene Ah scandalise, no compromise He's down on his knees Swashbuckling He was the King The toast of Tinseltown They build him up They took it all And then they just cut him down
Ohhh Errol I would give everything just to be like him(x2)
Don't tell me it's true I don't wanna hear about it (4x)
Ohhh Errol I would give everything just to be like him(4x )
— Frankly I have trouble with understanding the singer. But the main point here, is that is a great little tribute based on whatever less or greater knowledge the songwriter had about Flynn. Reads like he read MWWW.
HI STEVE. I'M JUST FINISHING GOOGIES, VOLUME ONE. WHAT A JOURNEY! RECALLING PEOPLE (SOME I'D FORGOTTEN ABOUT, LIKE, SIDNEY SKOLSKY, AND A COUPLE OTHERS), PLACES AND THINGS, THAT WERE SO FAR BACK IN MY MEMORY.
TO READ THIS WONDERFUL BOOK,TO RELIVE THAT VERY SPECIAL ERA OVER AGAIN, IS JUST MAGIC. LIKE TRAVELING BACK IN TIME. WHAT A GREAT BOOK. YOU RECAPTURED IT ALL! ALL THAT MADE THOSE YEARS SOME OF THE BEST EVER. I'LL START VOLUME # 2, IN A COUPLE OF DAYS. THANKS FOR THE TRIP.
New Documentary is Centerpiece of Warner Home Video's Year-Long Celebration of Studio's 85th Anniversary –
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story; You Ain t Heard Nothin Yet (1923-35); Good War, Uneasy Peace (1935-50) Tonight at 09:00 pm PBS (ch 29) All Upcoming Airings Clint Eastwood narrates the history of Warner Bros., which opens with You Ain t Heard Nothin Yet (1923-35), about the movie studio s first years, when its top star was a dog named Rin Tin Tin…
“As you can see, Part One is on PBS tonight! I just hope Schickel told Eastwood how to pronounce Errol name – in an earlier 2-part special (“Here's Looking At You, Warner Brothers”) that aired on TCM about ten years ago, Eastwood repeatedly pronounced “Errol” as if it were spelt Earl… “
It was brought to my attention by Karl that few know that one of Flynn's nicknames was the Colonel. More people used the Baron of Mulholland — which though no one is sure I think came from Jack Warner originally when he said something like Flynn was living like a goddamn baron up on a mountaintop!
Colonel was an early nickname. Alan Hale was Sarge and Big Boy Guinn Williams was Corporal. It may have originated on “Charge”. I can't recall offhand if Hale or Big Boy was in “Charge” but it they were, that might have started the trend.
It also may have started with Niven back in the Dawn Patrol era — or on Died WTBO. I never asked and never remember anyone mentioning it.
I called him Colonel somewhat jokingly (derisively in a good-natured way) and he once called David Niven the Major — but Niven and he were together by 1949-50, so though I met David and was at his Pacific Palisades house (The Pink Palace) I never saw them together. But Flynn genuinely liked him. And Ty Power too — when the three of them chummed around together.
At the urging of his eminence, Captain David, I repost this “comment” as an “article”. And on any ship, one must always obey them- both the captain and his articles!
Steve (and Tom)-
I received my volume 1 yesterday and was going to drop a line to you today, but I see that The Magnificent McNulty, has already struck, and hit CENTER target- what a marksman!
And while I'm at it- so are you Steve!
As I am “giving” this to myself, through another- I couldn't help it. I took a peek, and then had to read the WHOLE chapter on Flynn. I then jumped back to the front and read the Saxon intro- and all I can say is McNulty tells no tales because it's simply a fact … that not only are you a WONDERFUL describer, joining the other eyewitnesses of the past (Wiles, Walsh, Quinn, Cody, Nora, and Rory- just to name a few) but offering your own unique glimpse into what it was like, to be in the company of this man. And from all that I can tell, so far- it will be among the VERY BEST!
As volume one deals with the early part of acquaintance, the promise of the second is of a closer view, and your skill in “atmospheric” writing, brings the reader there right beside you!
I can't wait for “our” next visit.
Best regards, and … thank you for WRITING THIS BOOK!
I just left an answer to Shamrock regarding Tyrone Power. I hope it's received. It makes me so angry when I read stuff (his article referred to the suggestion that Ty Power was gay or bisexual) that is untrue about famous people after they're dead.
It's so easy to speak ill of the dead. They're defenseless and not only that but it makes the person talking about them seem as if they were privy to special secrets none of us ordinary folks are. It elevates them at the dead person's expense.
Having lunched with Power several times at Fox while I was under contract there, had dinner with him while he lived with Linda at Bel Air, and just talked to him on various movie sets — I can assure you that no finer or nicer guy existed. And this is not just my opinion, it's the opinions of everyone who ever knew him. Including his ex-wives.
I was close to Lana Turner in the mid fifties and she, as most film buffs know, was madly in love with him for a while. They dated and saw each other in Mexico, even as he was supposedly dating Judy Garland. And I mentioned Power to Lana (actually we all called her by her real name, Judy) and even though at the time she'd been bitter about getting dumped by Power, she still never spoke ill of him. “Gracious” was one of the key words that come to mind when discussing Ty.
So let's all try to stop these rumors about past stars from circulating. Maybe we can then remember these people, who still give us so much pleasure when watching them on the screen, as they really were – Hollywood version of royalty!
