Word: errol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Palooka is discovered in "the biggest little town in Pennsylvania" by Manager Knobby Walsh (Leon Errol), who eases him over such bumps in the K.O. road as love and gangsters, and into the championship. This groggy plot even includes the scene where the hero turns to wave at his girl in the crowd and is promptly flattened by his opponent. What saves the film is its hilarious ribbing of the fight game and fight pictures...
Although most comments on MMP come from you, we also hear occasionally from our subjects. Hollywood's Errol Flynn. who has some kind of affinity for the People section, is forever writing in to "straighten" us out on this or that technicality of his misadventures. Not long ago Clark Gable's first wife, Josephine Dillon, communicated her displeasure at another magazine's description of her as "many years his [Gable's] senior.'' She thought we ought to know that she is only "three'' years older than Gable, who is "swiftly approaching fifty...
...lady with the mole is Cleo, cinemactress heroine of a new novel-his first by versatile Cinemactor Errol Flynn...
...clipping. The resemblance between this new series and another well-wearing job cut to the same cloth, radio's 13-year-old One Man's Family (Sun. 3:30-4 p.m., E.S.T.), was more than coincidental. Both of them are written and directed by paunchy, bald Carlton Errol Morse, 44, one of radio's masters of the so-human touch...
MOST SECRET - Nevil Shute - Morrow ($2.50). This slickly competent wartime adventure story is put together on such sound box-office principles that it might do as a cinema vehicle for Errol Flynn. It has all the required ingredients : commando raid, secret agent, love interest, a London blitz, shiny-eyed self-sacrifice, and a gallant English officer who wants to kill Germans because a bomb's blast killed his pet rabbit, Geoffrey. The publishers boast that three of British naval-officer-novelist Shute's last five books (Ordeal, Pied Piper, Pastoral) have been selected by "major book clubs...