The Young Errol: Flynn Before Hollywood

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a b Capshaw, Ron (August 2010). " Errol Flynn: The True Adventures of a Real-Life Rogue, by Lincoln Hurst". Book Review. Bright Lights Journal. No.69 . Retrieved 1 November 2010. The Court Jester, a musical comedy starring Danny Kaye, is in great measure a spoof of Robin Hood. Basil Rathbone even appears as the villain and has a climactic sword fight with Kaye. He married Lily Mary (Marelle) Young on 23 January 1909; they had one child together, the film actor Errol Flynn. [3] Flynn and his family then moved to Northern Ireland where he served as the Chair of Zoology at Queen's University of Belfast from 1931 to 1948; he also became director of the marine station at Portaferry. [3]

a b "Theodore Thomson Flynn and Errol Flynn: the Professor and the Tasmanian Devil exhibition". University of Tasmania Library . Retrieved 14 July 2022. Earl Conrad, the ghost-writer who assists Errol Flynn to recall his memoirs late in life while the movie-star is living on the island paradise of Jamaica in the Caribbean captures the essence of the meeting.Higham, Charles; Greenberg, Joel (1971). The celluloid muse; Hollywood directors speak. Regnery. p. 184.

On one particularly troubling occasion, Niven claims that Flynn (who was tried and acquitted of statutory rape by two women in the early 1940s) invited him to go view “the best-looking girls in L.A.” Allegedly, Flynn then drove them down Sunset Boulevard, parking directly across from Hollywood High just as school was letting out. “Jailbait,” he told Niven. “ San Quentin Quail. What a waste!” When a policeman approached the car to ask what exactly they were doing, Flynn retorted, “We are just admiring the scenery.” Bernardi, Daniel. Hollywood's Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema, Wayne State University Press (2013) p. 48 Robey, Tim (2015-11-24). "10 films that influenced Star Wars". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12 . Retrieved 2020-12-25.

Flynn conned his way into Hollywood

It was 1957, and I was 15 and working on the Warner Bros, lot as a dancer in a scene with Gene Kelly in Marjorie Morningstar (a film with a character played by a 46 year old Gene Kelly seducing an 18 year old Natalie Wood) when Orry-Kelly, the designer, came fluttering over from the next set saying that Errol Flynn wanted to meet me. I wasn’t very enthusiastic—I had met a lot of movie stars. I was taught to be very polite, so I went. Flynn went to Cuba in late 1958 to film the self-produced B film Cuban Rebel Girls, where he met Fidel Castro and was an enthusiastic supporter of the Cuban Revolution. He wrote a series of newspaper and magazine articles for the New York Journal American and other publications documenting his time in Cuba with Castro. Flynn was the only journalist who happened to be with Castro the night Batista fled the country and Castro learned of his victory in the revolution. [83] Many of these pieces were lost until 2009, when they were rediscovered in a collection at the University of Texas at Austin's Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. [23] He appeared in a short titled Cuban Story: The Truth About Fidel Castro Revolution (1959), his last-known work. One night, Barrymore arrived at Mulholland House, Flynn’s infamous bachelor pad—popular with cowboys, stuntmen, and crooks—overlooking the San Fernando Valley. Barrymore’s antics soon drove his jaded host to distraction. It was, Flynn writes, “the most frightening three weeks I had since I was in the New Guinea jungle.” Flynn, Theodore Thomson". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre . Retrieved 26 January 2018. The payout by insurance to the Hunters is staggering and as a result no insurance firm will ever again insure them.