The night they kidnapped Barrymore
By: by Mark Leiren-Young
Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto, ON
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
Description: "Legend has it that when John Barrymore died, two actors working on a B-movie decided to kidnap the body and bring it to Errol Flynn's home as a joke. The B-movie was Casablanca. The two actors were Peter Lorre and Humphrey Bogart. Yes, it's probably the Hollywood equivalent of an urban myth - although Flynn states in his autobiography that it happened (although he doesn't name all the participants in the kidnapping) - but the dates actually work. Casablanca was indeed filming when Barrymore died. The story is my version of what happened that night ..." -- Publisher's website.