If this book has already been posted I am sorry for the repeat. We got ours on Amazon With postage $31 .Pre release. I used Amazon as to us it is safer than other places. I wonder when I get it how many mistakes we can find.
Errol Flynn: The true story of Australia’s Hollywood icon Paperback – 31 March 2026
by Patricia O’Brien (Author)
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Errol Flynn was one of the first larger-than-life celebrities, an icon of the screen. This major biography uncovers the real story behind the well-cultivated Hollywood myths of this Australian-born actor.
Handsome and charismatic, Errol Flynn was one of the first great screen idols. He mesmerised millions around the world with his swordsmanship, swagger and smouldering sexuality. He portrayed an array of heroes in the Golden Age of Hollywood, and his life off screen was no less colourful.
This groundbreaking biography is the first complete account of Errol Flynn’s life, from his unusual childhood in Tasmania and damaging family secrets, to his time in the brutal plantations of New Guinea, and his discovery by a Warner talent spotter. He quickly found fame in lead roles in blockbuster films like Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood. He was the man who had it all, who every man wanted to be, who every woman wanted.
This is a revealing and intimate portrait of Flynn, and gives serious attention to the many women in his life for the first time. Flynn’s 1943 rape trial uncovered the sexual trafficking of underage girls in Hollywood on a grand scale. Tragically, he died aged only fifty, the result of a life lived to excess.
‘Such a great story. I wish I had written this.’ Peter FitzSimons
‘Immaculately researched and brilliantly told. Errol Flynn is more gripping than all his movies put together.’ Alison Bashford
‘O’Brien brilliantly takes us to the dark heart of the world’s most famous dream factory and one of its most notorious, and celebrated, habitues.’ Frank Bongiorno Genene and Steve
— tassie devil
Here’s the review for Errol Flynn: The True Story of Australia’s Hollywood Icon, as appeared in The Australian newspaper 21st March ’26
This irks me no end! “Flynn’s 1943 rape trial uncovered the sexual trafficking of underage girls …” THIS IS A COMPLET FABRICATION! Yes, I am yelling. The rape trial had nothing to do with sexual trafficking of young girls. His trial did not uncover any such thing and so we seem to have another sensational book with a tremendous lie in it. First he was falsely accused of being a Nazi and now this …
Huston/Errol… we’ve got (still, ANOTHER) problem?
With Mel about to blast off and “Swannie” already having done so…
Tell us Mel… do you have just one more in you…with a special assist from Cary Elwes- just in case?
Hi David, you’re correct, of course, in his 1943 statutory rape trial, Flynn was acquitted. However, the proceedings – and especially the surrounding media coverage and testimonies – exposed aspects of Hollywood culture at the time. I think this is what it’s intending to say … not that Flynn himself was found guilty of running or participating in a trafficking operation