The Korngold-Flynn Connection

No star of Hollywood's Golden Age had better musical support than Errol Flynn. It was his good fortune to be signed by Warner Bros. at a time when original dramatic composition for films was beginning to be taken seriously, especially by Warner's. The head of production, Jack L. Warner, flatly stated, "Films are fantasy - and fantasy needs music" .He gave his head of the music department, Leo Forbstein, freedom to hire the best possible studio orchestra, and a team of composers, arrangers and orchestrators. In addition to this, Warner's were far ahead of the other studios in sound recordings techniques, a