July 8, 2025 and a nine days ago, I let the seventh anniversary of these daily posts slip by, Counting two leap years, that’s 2557 days. On this day 136 years ago in 18 Actor Eugene Pallette, who appeared in two films based on the stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the authorized “Tarzan of the Apes, and the unauthorized, "The Isle of Content," was born in 1889.
For information about the film, "The Isle of Content" - https://www.erbzine.com/mag23/2380.html
Paulette made over 260 films is a career that spanned the silent and talking film eras. His first credit. He began his career as a slender leading man, but he’s best known for playing the rotund Friar Tuck in “The Adventures of Robin Hood. His last film was “Suspense” in 1944 and his first was :The Fugitive” in 1913. Paulette adapted his talent to fit his size and was a master of both drama and comedy. He worked steadily because of that.
The fictional drabble for today is, “Time Waists For No Man,’ and it was inspired by Eugene Paulette’s ability to change as he needed to. Isn’t that what being an actor is all about? For the record, Errol Flynn died at 50, but Eugene Paulette lived to be 65 years old.
Errol Flynn cut quite a dashing figure on the set of Robin Hood. He jokingly addressed Eugene Paulette. “I remember you. When you were skinny, you played quite the leading man. You were handsome as Ralph in “The Isle of Content. Look at you now!”
‘I’d forgotten that film. And yes, I was younger and thinner. My waist is directly proportional to my age and my success. All three have grown.”
“Eugene, I’ll bet that when I’m old, I’ll still be devastatingly handsome.”
“Errol, you burn your candle like a bonfire. It’s bright for a while, but ashes soon enough.”
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