Biography errol flynn
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Errol Flynn was born to adventuress Marrelle Young and respected biologist Theodore Flynn. Young Flynn was a rambunctious child who was always sure to find trouble, and he managed to get himself ejected from every school in which he was enrolled. In his late teens he set out to find gold, but instead found only a series of short-lived odd jobs.
Information is sketchy, however the positions of police constable, sanitation engineer, treasure hunter, sheep castrator, ship-master for hire, fisherman, and soldier seem to be among his more reputable career choices. The necessity to stay at least one jump ahead of the law--and jealous husbands--forced Flynn to flee to England, where he took up acting, into which he had previous stumbled when he was asked to play (ironically) Fletcher Christian in a film called In the Wake of the Bounty (). Flynn's natural athletic talent and good looks attracted the attention of Warner Brothers and soon he was off to America. His luck held when he r
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Born in in Tasmania, Errol Flynn captivated the world, careening through life like a Hemingway antihero överfylld with toxic masculinity. When his autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, was released posthumously in , he again shocked the public—and even his famous friends. “It fryst vatten indeed as outspoken as it fryst vatten reputed to be,” his friend Noël Coward sniped, “but with a sort of outspokenness which curdles the blood. Such a wealth of unnecessary vulgarity.”
From his early days biting off sheep testicles on an Australian farm to his reign as an international superstar, Flynn recounts his någon eller något som saknar moralisk känsla adventures in deceptively eloquent prose that blunts his often sordid stories. Whether he was learning to drink odorless vodka on set from Ann Sheridan, smoking ogräs with Diego Rivera, wooing Princess Irene of Romania, or using cocaine on the tip of his penis as an aphrodisiac, Flynn was out for himself, with little care for the wreckage he left along the way. “I am dangerous to be with because,
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Hello my friends, and thanks for visiting my author page here on Amazon. I'm a graduate of Columbia College in Chicago. For many years I wrote for the magazine market and my celebrity interviews, articles, essays, book reviews, film reviews and Hollywood and literary profiles have appeared in numerous magazines including American Cowboy, Filmfax, The Big Reel, Classic Images, Films of the Golden Age, Kung-Fu Magazine, Mystery News, Scary Monsters and others. My current best-selling title is the non-fiction work ERROL FLYNN: THE LIFE AND CAREER published by McFarland Books in and it remains in print. I published six Westerns in England for the Hale-Crowood Press legendary Black Horse Western line. TRAIL OF THE BURNED MAN was my first Western. Airship published a retro-pulp style adventure, THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN GRAVES and also published my stories in two of their anthologies, the most recent being BASS REEVES: FRONTIER MARSHAL, vol. 5.
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