Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1936) is sometimes listed as part of Flynn's filmography. Usually, it is omitted. For a good reason perhaps. This 19 minute short was a musical review. Errol and then-wife Lili Damita appear in about a three second cameo at the beginning of the film. No lines or anything like that. Errol was fresh of his Captain Blood success that shot him to stardom, and will married to first wife Damita. At the beginning of the height of his fame. There are other cameos in this short film, including Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, and Mickey Rooney. None of them have any lines either.
A musical review, the film was more travelogue for the island's tourism industry. It was shot in color - pretty rare for 1936. Long lost and forgotten, I had heard that it had been tacked onto the Warner Brothers DVD of David Copperfield as an added feature. But then some kind sould posted the entire 19 minute film on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czIGtYPpKrA
It can also be found online at:
http://www.avalonball.com/
Final note - Lili Damita - after her unhappy divorce from Errol, she married Allen Loomis, a retired Fort Dodge, Iowa dairy owner, and spent part of each year living there. She died in 1989, and is buried in Oakland Cemetary at Fort Dodge under the name Lili Carre Loomis (Carre was her maiden name). Since I'm soon off to run an office in Iowa for a few months, that sounds like a good reason for a road trip.
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