Errol Flynn
If you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.
Anecdotes
Anecdotes:
Mr. Flynn Senior Biography
Errol was not born Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn but "Errol Leslie Flynn" -"Thomson" was added in the early 1940's to honour his father.
Errol Flynn replaced Robert Donat as Captain Blood
Errol Flynn replaced, of all people James Cagney as Robin Hood
Errol Flynn was first choice for King Solomon's Mines with Deborah Kerr. Negotiations bogged down and a chance was taken on the unknown Stewart Granger in the role of Alan Quartermain; a role for which he won an Academy Award. [TCM]
Flynn in the meantime did Kim in India. Some say he took this part because he'd already been to Africa and wanted to see India. Regardless of the reason, it may have been a huge mistake. This may have been the vehicle that changed his life course.
King Solomon's Mines and Kim came out the same year and at approximately the same time.
In 1944 John Decker & Errol Flynn in the Decker-Flynn Gallery. Decker died in Los Angeles on June 7, 1947 of cirrhosis of the liver
There is some reference that Mr. Flynn Sr. may not have been his biological father, the reason given is that his parents were married in January and he was born in June.
Cuban Sculptor Joseph Dubronyi, who has hewn enough nudes to people a colony, was about to sue the estate of "a good pal," the late Cinemactor Errol Flynn, for $5,000. The unpaid-for art object: a goldplated, 18-in. reclining figure of Flynn's last protégée, lithe Nymphet Beverly ("Woodsie") Aadland, 17, in the breathtaking altogether.
Numerous legends surround Flynn's death. According to Vancouverhistory.ca, Flynn flew with Aadland to Vancouver on October 9, 1959, to sell his yacht Zaca to millionaire George Caldough. On October 14, Caldough was driving Flynn to the airport when Flynn felt ill. He was taken to the apartment of Caldough's friend, Dr. Grant Gould, uncle of noted pianist Glenn Gould. A party ensued, with Flynn regaling guests with stories and impressions. Feeling ill again, he announced "I shall return" and retired to a bedroom to rest. A half hour later, Aadland checked in on him and discovered him unconscious, due to suffering a massive heart attack. According to the Vancouver Sun on December 16, 2006, "When Errol Flynn came to town in 1959 for a week-long binge that ended with him dying in a West End apartment, his local friends propped him up at the Hotel Georgia lounge so that everyone would see him."
He was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California. He shares coffin space with six bottles of whiskey, a parting gift from his drinking buddies.
Olivia de Havilland talks about Errol Flynn