Sad, but you see examples of persons taking the roles of super stars too seriously, in movies and music as well. Sometimes success can kill you, and often times did, and does. It's just that back then the movie and record industries had agreements with the press to not brodcast or put into print the lifstyles of the rich and famous. Just the opposite of today.
When the Blu-ray comes out on July 19th, then I'll be talking about the movie and the Blu-ray's presentation. Right now, we're in a wait and see period because only reviewers have access to this Blu-ray.
Yes Yes and Yes --- he was and is one of Warners most famous stars - glad though he wrote HIS story and that is what we should honor his story! For Bette Davis to come around and admit he had IT star quality NUFF Said - I do love though everyones opinion - the stars of yesteryear were and are stars not the spoiled lot we have today. They were trained by the studio mostly given successful roles except some turkeys they were given positive press and the masses looked up to them --- funny Hollywood crumbled when the contract system collapsed, when stars started picking their own films and TV came around and look at the likes of Debbie Reynolds, Ann Miller Mickey Rooney they all praised the studio system
Perfectly stated. On the nose.
Any Flynn where he swashbuckles is Flynn time!
The Flynn autobiography is a very interesting one, though one takes the details with a grain of salt and in the context of when it was written. This and Mary Astor’s My Story were the first two star autobiographies I read as a teenager. Both were seen as unusually frank and somewhat scandalous, and I found them fascinating. Both paperback copies are long gone; I’ve kept the first edition hardcover books accumulated since by everyone from Ray Milland to Edward G. Robinson to Bette Davis’s multiple memoirs.
Great info --- is Flynn's still in print?
A lot of the swashbucklers did not age well - Tyrone Power near the end too they lived fast and hard Power's father died at a young age and maybe Power feared that BUT Flynn and Power were stars and even their later efforts were legendary - Flynn knew he was long in the tooth BUT Adv Of Don Juan is a terrific tip of the hat to his earlier efforts the production the costumes the cast the color the score SAYS Hollywood in its prime and the box office and fan reaction welcomed the old Flynn too Mr F said what a huge success it was!
You are spot on ---- but when watching as even Mr F said in the podcast the film was made with tongue firmly in cheek - by this time Flynn had been in court cases with some serious charges so the fact that he was playing Don Juan was with all involved in making the film with a great inside joke - Alan Hale shines in this as does Viveca Lindfors the always great Fortunio Bonanova too just a fun film and the duel between Robert Douglas and Flynn is another well staged clastic -- just enjoy the entire film!
The lifestyles of both Flynn and Power were a factor, infact Power died from a heart attack while on the set of his last movie, with George Sanders in 1959 Solomon & Sheba (Yul Brenner replaced Powers). This does not deminish the fabulous careers of either of these amazing men!
