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Star of the Month: Errol Flynn
TCM, Beginning at 7 p.m.
Turner Classic Movies’ final Monday night salute to Errol Flynn this month offers a lineup of 10 films that get away from the action-star side of Flynn for which he is most remembered and instead offer a compelling mix of other genres in which the actor excelled, from biopics and mysteries to dramas and comedies. The first film is Gentleman Jim (pictured) (1942), a biopic directed by frequent Flynn collaborator Raoul Walsh and starring Flynn as late
19th-/early 20th-century boxer James J. Corbett. After that are the lighthearted mystery Footsteps in the Dark (1941); Never Say Goodbye (1946), featuring Flynn in his first purely comedic role, alongside Eleanor Parker; That Forsyte Woman (1949), a romantic drama also starring Greer Garson; The Sisters (1938), a drama co-starring Bette Davis; Four’s a Crowd, also from
1938, a romantic comedy directed by another frequent Flynn collaborator, Michael Curtiz, and co-starring Olivia de Havilland in one of her several onscreen pairings with Flynn; Escape Me Never (1947), a melodrama re-teaming Flynn with Parker and also starring Ida Lupino; another 1947 feature, Cry Wolf, a mystery that also stars Barbara Stanwyck; The Big Boodle, a 1957 film noir also known as A Night in Havana and set in Cuba; and Too Much, Too Soon (1958), one of Flynn’s final films, a biopic about actress Diana Barrymore (Dorothy Malone) in which he co-stars as Diana’s father, legendary thespian John Barrymore. — Jeff Pfeiffer