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Clyderigged
03-11-2009, 12:03 AM
http://www.umbrellaent.com.au/cover_images/full/815 http://www.memorabilia2u.com/images/errolflynn.jpg

From the website put together by is daughter, Rory Flynn:

http://www.inlikeflynn.com/ (http://www.inlikeflynn.com/)


In his lifetime, Errol Flynn received no recognition from his peers at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He never attended a ceremony in his honor and was not nominated. Could be that his screen persona, the swashbuckler, the rake, stuck to him too well? Yet in his career he defined a male archetype and forever set his mark on movie maleness, in fact, created a constellation of manly virtues that even today is the stuff of dreams.


http://www.cmgww.com/stars/flynn/images/photos/errol_flynn013.jpg http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/LIFPOD/813323~Errol-Flynn-with-His-Dog-at-the-Helm-of-a-Yacht-While-Enjoying-a-Fishing-Vacation-Posters.jpg

What a life....

Any ideas on how to celebrate his 100th birthday in a manner to honor the man who said

"There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him."
Errol Flynn

or

Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.”

Or


"I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.”

His second wife had this to say:
"The only time he wasn’t living was when he was asleep, and even then I think he dreamt well."
-– Second wife Nora Haymes

Think I will open a bottle of rum and watch Captain Blood onboard Torea or try to convince the Star of India in San Diego to have a "Movies before the mast" night featuring Errol Flynn in one of his many swashbuckling roles on the 100th anniversary of his birth – June 20, 1909.

Wooden Boat Fittings
03-11-2009, 12:19 AM
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And as David Niven said of him when they were sharing the house Cyrrhosis-By-The-Sea, "There was one thing you could always rely on about Errol -- he would always let you down." (Quoted from memory, so not necessarily verbatim.)

Just another bloody crass Aussie, I reckon. :)

Mike

Vince Brennan
03-11-2009, 12:31 AM
God Bless Him... the "archetype" of macho for so many of us at that impressionable age.

I've heard stories from old "salts" that he was running copra in the early '30's and that's where he was "discovered" by some Hollywood producer who was vacationing in the Poly's...

Dunno if that's true, but is SURE is... "Romantic".

Certain it is that he was a lover of sail and sailing, and that's enuf for me.

(A dab hand at fencing. too!)

The Bigfella
03-11-2009, 01:09 AM
Halvorsen's built his yacht for him. The cheque bounced.

goodbasil
03-11-2009, 01:18 AM
There was a documentry on TV here just two weeks ago about him. He was game for anything. Died right here in Vancouver. Sure liked young'ns.

Dave Carnell
03-11-2009, 09:36 AM
When I was in college in Boston in the late 30s the tabloid paper headlined an account of a teenager's seduction in which he undressed her except for her bobby sox and saddle shoes. The headline was "He Did It With Her Bots On".

Dave Carnell
03-11-2009, 09:36 AM
When I was in college in Boston in the late 30s the tabloid paper headlined an account of a teenager's seduction in which he undressed her except for her bobby sox and saddle shoes. The headline was "He Did It With Her Boots On".

Hwyl
03-11-2009, 09:47 AM
Tasmanians can hardly be counted as Aussies. They're a breed unto themselves.

CarlZog
03-11-2009, 01:09 PM
I've heard stories from old "salts" that he was running copra in the early '30's and that's where he was "discovered" by some Hollywood producer who was vacationing in the Poly's...

Not too far off. Flynn was working boats down there, and was picked up by an Aussie film maker for the "starring" role in a quirky film called "In the Wake of the Bounty". It was part Tahitian travel documentary and part Mutiny on the Bounty. Flynn played Fletcher Christian in a series of really bad scenes designed to tell the Bounty story.

The best part of the film though is the footage of Tahiti, particularly the Papeete waterfront, in the early 1930s -- before the international airport dramatically changed the landscape down there.

You can still pick it up on VHS online, or probably find it on one of the public domain movie bitorrent sites.

Carl

Hwyl
03-11-2009, 01:17 PM
Not corroborated by Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Flynn

Vince Brennan
03-11-2009, 11:22 PM
Not corroborated by Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Flynn I stand corrected (and MOST urbanely so!)... My thanks.

Clyderigged
03-12-2009, 12:48 AM
"Errol Flynn would mop the floor with Johnny Depp, and then kick his ass for missing the corners." by an unknown admirer




I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.”


–Errol Flynn