Funny Flynn/de Havilland reference

[Anne Greene]

My fifteen-year-old daughter is hooked on "The Andy Griffith Show" and
watches regularly on TVLand. This evening, the episode had the plot of
Barney mistakenly believing Andy and his long-time girlfriend Helen had
become engaged. Barney, his girl Thelma Lou and Aunt Bee plan a
surprise party, and as a gift, Aunt Bee suggests a group re-decorate
Andy's bedroom to make it ready for a new bride. She suggests a canopy bed.

"Canopy bed?" Barney asks, confused.

"Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in 'The Captive Prince,'" Thelma
Lou explains.

Obviously, it was a fictitious movie title, but it's neat to see the
reference as a way of making a romantic scene crystal clear.

Anne

[Igenlode Wordsmith]

For some reason, I'm getting the mental image of the 'canopy bed' being
used as a method of *keeping* the unwilling Prince captive for his
bride's benefit... :-)

Does Flynn ever get a four-poster on screen? I can't immediately call
one to mind; he gets a hospital bed as Custer, but I'm not sure he ever
does anything so un-energetic (or potentially contraventional of the
Hays Code) as resort to bed in his swashbucklers.

A couple of us were trying to think of cases where Flynn is seen
unconscious and/or asleep in his films, but the only one we came up with
was a second or so in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (during the
siege of Chukoti).

*checks back to 2005*

Yes, it was in reference to Nora's description: "The only time he wasn't
living was when he was asleep, and even then I think he dreamt well."
:-)

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