“Women over 45, if you can tear yourself away from the beautiful photographs, Robert Matzen explains the story and relationships (of Errol and Olivia) behind the movies, the gossip, and the innuendo and tells us for the first time what we really want to know.”
–The Chief Blonde, Still Blonde after all these YEARS!
Book: Errol & Olivia, Ego & Obsession in Golden Era Hollywood
Author: Robert Matzen
ISBN:978-1-9711685-8-9
MSRP: US–$39.95
Publisher: GoodKnight Books
Pages: 208, oversized Hardback, deluxe paper
Illustrations: Full Blaring Color and B&W as appropriate
Errol & Olivia: Ego & Obsession in Golden Era Hollywood is the first book ever to delve into the incendiary relationship between the great motion picture stars Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. In Errol & Olivia, Robert Matzen goes behind the scenes the Golden Era to tell the intimate story of how Errol and Olivia battled the studio system—and each other—in the name of ego and ambition to achieve lasting fame.
Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland first laid eyes on each other in 1935—and their lives were forever changed. He fell in love with her, and she with him, and through eight motion pictures these two Hollywood luminaries earned millions for the WarnerBrothers Studios—plus rich contracts and international acclaim for themselves. All the while, discontent slowly built as they made one classic picture after another, including the Academy Award®-winning The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). But what caused such unhappiness for Errol and Olivia? Here, told for the first time, is the story of the years Flynn and de Havilland spent together at Warner Brothers, learning the business together and then growing apart—until unlikely events made them allies and forged a bond that would last forever.
The Chief Blonde Reviews: Errol & Olivia, Ego & Obsession in Golden Era Hollywood
Ahh, the Golden Days of Hollywood..the passion, the angst, the looks, the passing kisses. And yet, there is always the other side of the Silver Screen–True humans who after being thrown together in picture and after picture develop all kinds of emotion for on another–that is the story of Errol & Olivia, Ego & Obsession in Golden Era Hollywood. I found myself captivated with the endless posed and candid pictures of the two stars. Truly, I can say, this is the part of the book I enjoyed the most. You can see such vulnerability in the unposed shots, such raw emotion! Women over 45, if you can tear yourself away from the the beautiful photographs, Robert Matzen explains the story and relationships behind the movies, the gossip, and the innuendo and tells us for the first time what we really want to know. What were Errol & Olivia really like and what was their relationship?
