The Vintage Film Star Thread

[DvdHbsn]

Yes, Flynn titled his autobiography "My Wicked, Wicked Ways"...

the expression 'In like Flynn' comes from him and his conquests.

 

[Mickey Finn]

the expression 'In like Flynn' comes from him and his conquests.

There's a story, maybe from David Niven, that Flynn had Perc Westmore, the legendary makeup artist at Warner Bros, make him a huge cock out of wax or somesuch, which Flynn stuffed down his trousers and would then gradually reveal to unsuspecting actresses who came to his dressing room. Their resulting shock and awe would make him roar with laughter. I think he caught the late Olivia de Havilland that way.

 

[Ponyhoff]

the expression 'In like Flynn' comes from him and his conquests.

Not exactly.....from Wikipedia...

Barry Popik of the American Dialect Society found an example from 1940, as well as this from the sports section of the San Francisco Examiner of 8 February 1942: “Answer these questions correctly and your name is Flynn, meaning you’re in, provided you have two left feet and the written consent of your parents”. To judge from a newspaper reference he turned up from early 1943, the phrase could by then also be shortened to I'm Flynn, meaning “I’m in”.[1]

In later years, the rhyming phrase became associated with actor Errol Flynn, who had a reputation for womanizing, consumption of alcohol, and brawling.

 

[Gutpunchboy]

Not exactly.....from Wikipedia...

Barry Popik of the American Dialect Society found an example from 1940, as well as this from the sports section of the San Francisco Examiner of 8 February 1942: “Answer these questions correctly and your name is Flynn, meaning you’re in, provided you have two left feet and the written consent of your parents”. To judge from a newspaper reference he turned up from early 1943, the phrase could by then also be shortened to I'm Flynn, meaning “I’m in”.[1]

In later years, the rhyming phrase became associated with actor Errol Flynn, who had a reputation for womanizing, consumption of alcohol, and brawling.

I read that ppl started saying it in relation to him after he beat the statuary rape case and won. As in - you're a shoe-in to win etc.

 

[Gutpunchboy]

Acting ability won no awards, but always thought he was beautiful to look at.

 

[edonline]

Not TOO vintage, but almost there, considering he started acting very young in the 1960 - Tim Matheson (National Lampoon's Animal House, 1978)

 

[Reflex8]

• Gene Nelson is so underrated. His solo dance at the gym sequence is stunning. Can't find anything else from his movie with Tony Curtis.
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[JSon101]

Anyone ever heard of William Grant Sherry?

 

[Gutpunchboy]

Anyone ever heard of William Grant Sherry?
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Yes, he was the one b4 Gary Merrill no?

 

[Reflex8]

Yes, he was the one b4 Gary Merrill no?

Yes, he was a painter, and husband no3 of Bette Davis, so not really Hollywood in his own right.

 

[Mickey Finn]

Anyone ever heard of William Grant Sherry?
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Bette Davis had a good eye. Well, two good eyes. Bette Davis eyes in fact.

(sorry, terrible joke, but I couldn't resist it)

 

[Mickey Finn]

I keep coming back to Gary Cooper, knocked out each time I find a new pic from his youth. My nomination for the most stunningly beautiful movie star of them all.

 

[Mickey Finn]

Robert Taylor

 

[Mickey Finn]

Guy Madison.

I hadn't heard of him before, just came across his pics by accident. Handsome and sexy.

 

[Mickey Finn]

Tyrone Power. Wow...

 

[Gutpunchboy]

Guy Madison.

I hadn't heard of him before, just came across his pics by accident. Handsome and sexy.

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HE was always to me to hottest man ever. (he was a Henry Wilson boy, apparently picked up while he was still in the Navy or Merchant Marines or something, Wilson got him the very small part in Since You Went Away as part of a package deal and just as he thought would happen, women in droves wrote in asking WHO he was and when they'd see more of him) *he was not a very good actor in that yet somehow perfect for the part and yeah, WHO cared lol)

 

[edonline]

Guy Madison.

I hadn't heard of him before, just came across his pics by accident. Handsome and sexy.

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HE was always to me to hottest man ever. (he was a Henry Wilson boy, apparently picked up while he was still in the Navy or Merchant Marines or something, Wilson got him the very small part in Since You Went Away as part of a package deal and just as he thought would happen, women in droves wrote in asking WHO he was and when they'd see more of him) *he was not a very good actor in that yet somehow perfect for the part and yeah, WHO cared lol)

Guy Madison's brother Wayne Mallory was also a looker. Also an actor, he never had the same success in movies as his older brother.

 

[fellatio4ever]

There are nudes of Guy Madison on the internet...I believe even frontals.

 

[Mickey Finn]

Haven't found any nudes yet, but here he is in the shower...

In middle age, still devastatingly handsome and vigorous...

 

[Capitolhillguy]

Helmut Riedmeier
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He is posted everywhere on this thread, but he is not listed as having ever been in film. Just a bodybuilder, though handsome of course.