Errol Flynn: ‘Everything Went Black’ in Mocambo Brawl

Posted on October 1, 2011 by lmharnisch

Oct. 1, 1941, Comics

Oct. 1, 1941, Errol Flynn
Oct. 1, 1941: Errol Flynn promises he won’t punch Hollywood columnist Jimmie Fidler anymore. The actor invoked the famous “everything went black” defense for the melee at the Mocambo, in which Fidler’s wife stabbed him with a fork.

Oct. 1, 1941, Errol Flynn

Oct. 1, 1941, Errol Flynn

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1 Response to Errol Flynn: ‘Everything Went Black’ in Mocambo Brawl

  1. Arye Michael Bender says:
    October 1, 2011 at 10:54 am

    What a clash! Errol Flynn, the very essence of freedom as a force of nature, coming up against a smarmy, judgmental, Hollywood hanger-on who makes a living reporting studio fed gossip. The eruption seems pre-ordained. Two such opposite characters would have been hard to find outside of politics. At the Mocambo yet!

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