The Errol Flynn Blog

April 6, 1970, Errol’s only legitimate son went missing. He was captured and eventually killed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. RIP–Sean L. Flynn.–A. R.

— ILIKEFLYNN

Gloria Viola Seeman shares a nice sketch of Errol Flynn with us signed by an artist named “Strange” …

— David DeWitt

Hear is an example of an image I found on a doctormacro’s web site that contains images you have seen your whole life and are very familiar with but the quality makes them look like they were just taken with modern digital cameras. Amazing find for me. Make sure you click on the photo to get it to enlarge to its biggest form before you save it to your computer (if you choose).
I have tried but can’t get the link option to work for me. Here is the address to access this wonderful site.

www.doctormacro.com…

— twinarchers

Just some late night surfing on the net. A fun video to check out. I still want to get there one day.

— twinarchers

Hey fellow Flynn fans.  I have never seen this before and I found it because of one of the photos it has.  The photo is the one with Bev from the Red Skelton Show and when you click on it it is crystal clear and huge.

blogs.dailybreeze.com…

 The Hermosa Beach Girl who Fell in Love with Errol Flynn

— twinarchers

Today 75 years ago Errol Flynn’s “Dodge City” held its world premiere in Dodge City, Kansas. Here Errol proved that he was just as good with a six-shooter as he was with a sword. A classic and influential western, it is the quintessential story of a man cleaning up a town. To explain how Flynn can be in a western, Alan Hale has the best line. After explaining Flynn has been every where, done almost everything, Hale muses that Flynn is either “the most traveling man.. or else he is the biggest liar!”–A. R.

— ILIKEFLYNN

Some of you fans may have seen this image before and it may be some where on this site but check it out.  Great to see this kind of thing from back then.

— twinarchers

I see Mr. Marino has his own link to this on Youtube but it has been there for some time from someone else too.  It has many still’s and film footage not seen anywhere else and it also is a second try for Christopher Lee to be in a higher budget film with good looking footage.  His first documentary on Flynn is available on DVD but the “feature film” footage is poor.  I advise you to get it anyway since it’s a good show and has rare interviews.  It’s a must have for Flynn fans.  Check this one out on YouTube as its not available yet in the states.

— twinarchers

The estate of Errol Flynn releases the news to the medfia of the death of Patricia Wymore Flynn in Portland, Jamaica, on Saturday, March 22:

Patrice Wymore Flynn, an actress during Hollywood’s Golden Age and the widow of screen legend Errol Flynn, died Saturday at her home in Portland, Jamaica. According to Robb Callahan a family spokesman she had been battling with pulmonary disease for the last year. She was 87.

The tall and elegant Mrs. Flynn began her career in musicals performing in Up in Central Park in 1947; She made her Broadway debut a year later in the musical Hold It! and won the Theatre World Award for “promising actress.” Following her performance in another musical, All for Love (1949), the Kansas born set-eyed beauty was handed a starlet contract by Warner Bros. and headed west to seek her fame and fortune. She found a little bit of both. She received notice for her first screen role, as the young upstart to Doris Day’s established Broadway star in the film musical Tea for Two. She continued to make films in the early 1950s, co-starring with such screen greats as Kirk Douglas, Ronald Reagan, Randolph Scott and Danny Thomas. But it was her second role, as the female lead in the 1950 western Rocky Mountain that would have the most lasting effect on Miss Wymore’s life; it was during principal photography for the film that she met her future husband, the aging screen legend Errol Flynn, the film’s male lead.

In his autobiography My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Flynn describes Wymore when they met as “attractive, warm, and wholesome…she could sing, she was reserved, she had beauty and dignity. [She] typified everything I long for…everything I am not.”

Though Flynn was engaged at the time, the co-stars soon became a couple and were married in late 1950 at Monaco Town Hall in Nice, France—an event about which Mr. Flynn later stated, “it was wonderful to have a legitimate wedding for a change.” (The marriage was his third and her first.)

Like Mr. Flynn himself, Hollywood films were then in the middle of a long transition from glamour to grit, but the first few years of the couple’s marriage were still illuminated by the fading lights of that passing era, when they would attend parties thrown by Marion Davies and film premieres in Beverly Hills. They had a daughter, Arnella Flynn, in 1953; within two years, Mrs. Flynn had stopped acting altogether to raise their child and care for Mr. Flynn, whose career had stalled and whose health was in serious decline. “Nobody ever tried harder than Pat to make me happy,” Flynn would later note in My Wicked, Wicked Ways.

After her husband’s death in 1959, Mrs. Flynn returned to acting, landing the role she is best known for today as Frank Sinatra’s girlfriend Adele Elkstrom in the original 1960 film version of Ocean’s Eleven. Music buffs probably also recognize her as the imperious magazine editor Madame Quagmeyer from 1960s television show The Monkees. In 1970 however, she retired from acting for good and moved to Flynn’s massive estate in Jamaica. Though the property’s coconut farm was eventually destroyed by disease, Mrs. Flynn was able to turn it into an active and successful cattle ranch, and it remains so today.

Mrs. Flynn never remarried. She is survived by her grandson Luke Flynn, an actor and model and the only child of Patrice and Errol’s deceased daughter Arnella.

– Special thanks to Robb Callahan, at the Errol Flynn Estate

— David DeWitt