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...fact of interest in this scene is that it did not happen in one of Flynn's films. It happened in real life-or so the late Cinemactor Flynn assures his fans in his autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways (Putnam, $4.95). The book is written in a loose, well-Erroled prose that sounds as if it was talked on tape at 2 a.m. in the back booth of the Brown Derby, and the reader is often left wondering where the facts leave off and the Flynn-flam begins. But on the whole, My Wicked, Wicked Ways tells an entertaining...
Bottle Smeller & Gigolo. Flynn, the son of a noted biologist, was born in 1909 in Hobart, Tasmania. His mother, Errol says, considered him "a nasty little boy," and at 16 he almost killed another youngster in a fight, was expelled from school and took work as an office boy. Caught dipping into petty cash to bet on the horses, he got the sack, had to sleep in public parks till he heard of a gold strike in New Guinea. At 17, he set out to make his fortune, and for the next five years he lived by his remarkably quick...
Actor & Husband. Flynn set out for England to make his fortune as an actor. On the way, to hear him tell it, he stopped off at every gambling hell, opium den and bawdyhouse from Macao to Marseilles. Late in 1932, he joined the Royal Hong Kong Volunteers to fight the Japanese in Shanghai, deserted when the going got tough. Eventually he got to London alive, landed a job in a provincial repertory group, later a bit part in a British film...
...Warner saw the movie and brought the beautiful young man to Hollywood, where he promptly came to the attention of Lili Damita, a star of second magnitude who earned his admiration with her "glorious boudoir art." One night Lili stood on a window sill and threatened to jump if Flynn refused to make an honest woman of her. Flynn gave in, made a $2 deposit on a venture that cost him more than $1,000,000 in alimony before he died...
Joker & Braggart. In 1935 at the age of 26, Errol Flynn leaped spectacularly into the public eye in Captain Blood, and was well away on a film career that made him a sort of "rich man's Roy Rogers" whose color spectacles were almost as popular as the off-color spectacle of his private life. The lusty, naive young knockabout from New Guinea became the bored Mocambohemian. "The Baron," as his buddies called him, built the usual $125,000 mansion and kept a yacht, filled both of them with "roisterers, fun guys, rompers" and the sort of girls they...