News about Errol Flynn

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: All 14 Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone were made in Hollywood. Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, to British parents. Returning to the UK, he attended Repton School and started his acting career in 1911. He was a lieutenant in World War I, serving with distinction as an intelligence officer with the Liverpool Scottish, 2nd Battalion. He starred in the hit play The Swan in New York in 1923. In November of that year, Rathbone met his second wife Ouida Bergère, a scriptwriter, and remained in the U.S. The couple moved to Hollywood, where he made some fine films including The Adventures Of Robin Hood and Captain Blood, with his friend Errol Flynn.

The age rating for Star Wars movie The Phantom Menace has been toughened up from a U to a PG by film classifiers, ahead of 25th anniversary screenings. It includes violent scenes which show villain Darth Maul chopped in half by a lightsaber and Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn being stabbed through the torso. As a result, the British Board of Film Classification has tightened up the age classification for the film, with a warning the film includes 'moderate violence, mild threat'. The BBFC said a 'key consideration' for the raising of the classification was the 'strength of violence' in the film. It added the violent scenes in the film 'fit more comfortably' with a PG rating. Recent research by the film body showed that on-screen violence was of 'increased concern' to audiences. This research has helped shape the new classification guidelines that are introduced next month.

According to studies published by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) for the most recent update to its classification policies, attitudes toward cinematic violence and risqué content have remained stubborn in the last five years. According to the film ratings board, it may need higher ratings for violent and sexual scenes (Vita & Virginia, bottom right), but films' attitudes towards the use of cannabis and solvents have softened since its last rule revision in 2019, which has less stringent ratings. As a result, kid blockbuster Bumblebee (bottom left) and James Bond classic From Russia With Love (top right) will be rated from a PG to a 12A in 2024, but Bob Marley's One Love (top left) got a 10A and was released as a 12A.

The Empress, Rasputin And The Empress opened at the Astor Theatre in New York. It starred three leading Hollywood celebrities, including Ethel, John and Lionel Barrymore, who ostensibly tell the tale of Rasputin's assassination. Critics gave the film a mixed reception, though a New York Times writer made a remark about Prince Chegodieff's "war against Prince Chegodieff, as Prince Youssoupoff is known here, and the Mad Monk." He believed that the character of Chegodief was supposed to be the real-life Prince Felix Youssoupoff, and that everybody knew that Felix was married to the tsar's beautiful niece Princess Irina. Irina had never met Rasputin and protested the film's content and defamation of her character. Lawyers immediately spotted reasons for libel, and, as the film was on view in London, the Youssoupoffs took action.

According to MailOnline, Scobie has escaped the drama surrounding Endgame and flown into Los Angeles for burgers and cocktails. In response to persistent skepticism over the Dutch version of his latest book naming two royals accused of questioning Archie's skin colour before he was born, the journalist and royal author, 42, moved out of Britain. Mr Scobie ate at the Sunset Tower Hotel, which was popular with Hollywood celebrities for decades, with Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Caine, Quincy Jones, Roger Moore, and Zsa Zsa Gabor regulars at the art deco museum. His trip to Los Angeles came after he learned that his UK agent did not send Endgame naming the two 'royal racists' in Dutch. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's 'cheerleader-in-chief's insistence that he'never submitted a book with the names in it' if true.'

ANN LESLIE: Paul Newman, Sophia Loren, Liza Minnelli, Sean Connery, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Samuel Connery, John Betjeman, Sammy Davis Jnr. .. . There was barely a celebrity in film, books, and theatre, though I didn't interview as a young showbusiness reporter in the 1960s. Simply typing a few of the names at random brings me right back to long chummy chats in plush restaurants or even luxury hotel suites, or in gritty Parisian suburbs. Some of the actors wanted our chats to be more than chummy. David Niven (left), a worldwide symbol of the exemplary English gentleman, was one of many. We'd all meet up in London and he'd regale me with Hollywood tales about what he and his chum Errol Flynn will get up to in, as they christened it, 'Cirrhosis-on-Sea'.

Lights, camera, action! Warner Bros was established on April 4, 1923, and it continues to thrive as one of the world's biggest movie production firms. The company's four Warner brothers - Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack - started out on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood before transferring to Burbank, California, where it is now.

During the UK's first public screening of Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania, there was sporadic laughter and even occasional yelps of joy on Tuesday evening. So I admit that it may have only been the occupant of one seat (mine) in which Marvel Fatigue took hold after just five minutes. One of our time's most popular niggling oxymorons, Marvel Fatigue is one of the most popular niggling oxymorons. The blockbusters churned out by Marvel Cinematic Universe are supposed to bring us to the edge of those seats, not to make us cry in them. And, fairness, some of them meet the briefing. I got a lot of buzz from the first Ant-Man And The Wasp (2018), which was a sequel to 2015's Ant-Man.

JOAN COLLINS: From handing over the tickets and finding your seat to the anticipation and excitement of seeing the advertisements for forthcoming attractions, I've loved the whole experience of cinemagoing. However, I've noticed recently that films tend to be divided into a few rather predictable groups. First, the plot is free, as in the trailers on a recent outing to the theater. They were mainly science fiction: futuristic, computer-generated potboilers. The dismal films that make you completely dissatisfied, as many of those nominated for this year's Oscar competitions are included in the second camp.

Zandra Rhodes: I am a child of Medway towns. Our house was one of four right on Chatham Hill. I lived there with my parents and younger sister Beverley until I went to the Royal College of Art in London in 1961. Beatrice, my handsome father, was a lorry driver and Beatrice Flynn, was a tutor at Medway College of Design. She was an exceptional, exotic woman. She went to Paris and became a fitter in Worth's famous fashion house before the war. She came back when the war began, drove ambulances, and made wedding dresses at home. Were allowed to watch Beverley and I fit the dresses on the brides-to-be.

Louisa Fitzpatrick, a British-born airman who served in Britain during WWII, met a scathing young American airman. Fitzpatrick developed a close relationship with the dark-haired airman, and she talked about him for the remainder of her life. He gave her pictures not of himself but also of his three brothers, his parents, and even their house in Key West, Florida. Fitzpatrick died at the age of 92 and her son Eric Musgrave, 67, wants to restore the photographs to his family. Musgrave is fairly certain that it was just a matter of mutual interests. 'I have no evidence that they were ever romantically involved,' he said. The man's first name may have been Philip, according to Musgrave.'

Gina Lollobrigida's personal life is much more colorful than the plot of any of her Hollywood films. With forays to sculpture, photography, and beauty pageants, the actress, who was once dubbed the Mona Lisa of the twentieth century, has transformed from furniture maker's daughter to an international film star. Only weeks after celebrating her 95th birthday, the actress makes a dramatic turn in her personal life. In next month's general election, the bombshell, nicknamed 'La Lolla' by the adoring Italian people, will stand as a candidate. pictured: The actress in her heyday (left and center); with Marilyn Monroe (inset left); Rock Hudson (inset right); and at a film screening last year (right).

This year, Jamaica's good people have no more reasons to throw a party or three. The streets in August are alive with parades and a slew of famous activities to celebrate the momentous day in 1962, which has been dubbed Jamaica Day in the United States, with visitors more than eager to participate. However, although the anniversary celebrations hit their peak last night (or, more likely, in the early hours of this morning), there are still plenty of reasons to visit this sun-drenched paradise. Photographs: Bob Marley (inset); Doctor's Cave beach in Montego Bay [main] [main]; Doctor's Cave in Montego Bay [main]; Cocosan Villa in Port Antonio, where Daniel Craig stayed while filming No Time To Die [top right] and a street in Kingston [bottom right]