The Silver Screen Oasis

Thanks for posting this Moira! Just watched it - Flynn does a very nice turn in this movie, including a soft shoe number with Neagle. He is in about the last 2/3's of the film. Anna Neagle's got a couple other dance production numbers in this - she looks darned good for being 50 years old!

To be looked forward to, no chance before the kids go back to school but one to look forward to.

Wow! There's a Loretta Young epidemic ...Love your Loretta avatar too Moira.

I have been so happy holidaying here in the South of Chile, off work, that I could die right now...

No dying Feaito. No no no. More writing, when you get a chance.

CineMaven wrote:No dying Feaito. No no no. More writing, when you get a chance.

Figuratively speaking my friend, to die of happiness...

Aaaaaah, si.

My sisters should be on this message board. Come to think of it, Mom would have liked this too!

I'm reading Phillippa Gregory's book called The Other Boleyn Girl, it struck me that her descriptions of Henry are pure Errol Flynn. He should have played the young Henry. Can you imagine it, Errol as Henry with Bette Davis as Katherine of Aragon?

Absolutely! Oh that would have been glorious! You have a great eye for casting characters.

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You took the words right out of my mouth.

Great Picture of Flynn and de Havilland here ... so enduring and yet romantic to the heart.

Two of Errol Flynn's earlier and more obscure films are on the TCM schedule on Thursday, Jan. 9th.

1:30 PM (ET)
Green Light (1937)
An idealistic doctor sacrifices his career to protect an elderly surgeon.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Errol Flynn , Anita Louise , Margaret Lindsay .
BW-85 mins, TV-G, CC

One of Frank Borzage's less well known films, but worth seeing for Errol Flynn's quiet and very good performance, Spring Byington's memorable cameo, and a beautiful Irish Setter. The always welcome sight of Anita Louise features her gentle warmth, Margaret Lindsay is annoyingly dedicated but usually right, and the mostly fine Cedric Hardwicke as an "inspirational" clergyman seems to be preparing for his role as Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I usually like some films made from Lloyd Douglas stories (White Banners and this one in particular), but this movie is interesting because it documents the loneliness of being self-sacrificing rather than the spiritual release it may or may not give a person.
Here's a clip:

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Anita Louise and Margaret Lindsay with Flynn in Green Light.


Anita Louise with Cedric Hardwicke.


Errol, Anita, and the real star of this movie.

3:00 PM (ET)
The Sisters (1938)



Three western girls make unhappy marriages at the turn of the century.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Errol Flynn , Bette Davis , Anita Louise .
BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC

An early Anatole Litvak film in America with another intriguing performance by Errol Flynn, this time as a writer whose delusions of being Jack London (and drinking like him) leads him down a discontented path. Along for the stroll is his wife, Bette Davis, who is quietly luminous here (not something Bette let herself be much). Bette is one of three sisters who do not have the happiest of marriages (Jane Bryan and Anita Louise play her siblings). I particularly like the way that the story, based on a best seller by Myron Brinig with a script by Milton Krims, is framed by presidential elections. The cast, which includes Beulah Bondi, Henry Travers, Lee Patrick, Ian Hunter and every character actor in need of work in Hollywood sprawls, but Flynn's lost soul gives it considerable poignancy.

The three sisters, Jane Bryan, Anita Louise, and Bette Davis greet their suitors.

I think this thread has been quiet for quite awhile, but I just wanted to share this video I recently made to celebrate Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland as one of the greatest onscreen duos. They are so beautiful together - I thought this video might be enjoyed here. Hopefully I'm not breaking any rules by posting.