Errol Flynn

He could act, too.

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OP, he was hot as fuck.

David Niven in his memoir describes being at a party where Errol Flynn played the piano with his penis for Marilyn Monroe

He could tickle my ivory

The book by his teenage lover's mother, THE BIG LOVE, is amazing and should be better known as a camp classic. The first line: "There's one thing I want to make clear right off: my baby was a virgin the day she met Errol Flynn."

He rapes her on the night he meets her, but that doesn't discourage Mom. Poor Beverly was only 17 and by Errol Flynn's side when he died, with Mom's blessing.

In Captain Blood, his first starring role, he is so beautiful and charismatic that he hardly seems real.

Bette Davis said that he could act.

R6, that book is unintentionally hilarious. There are photos of Beverly and her mother getting info a fistfight. Someone died I think. A boyfriend who was there. Flo married some young black guy. She looked like she was in her 70s at the time. Tracey Ullman did a one-woman show on Broadway based on the book.

[quote]Flo married some young black guy. She looked like she was in her 70s at the time. Tracey Ullman did a one-woman show on Broadway based on the book.

Some high-toned writer (I think it was William Styron) wrote an appreciation of the book that they used as a foreword to one of the editions. He particularly liked it when Flo and Bev visited Flynn's burial place and Flo described it as "a terribly swanky graveyard."

The two teenage girls that accused Flynn of rape in the early 40’s were ripped to shreds in the press and by Flynn’s attorneys. One of them had been arrested on a morals charge for blowing 3 guys at the same time. The other one had an illegal abortion and had been a prostitute. The prosecution gave the girls makeovers and they both showed up looking like young schoolgirls but the cross examinations were devastating for the prosecution.

One of the victims Peggy satterfield died in 2005 the other one Betty Hansen died in 2015.

Errol Flynn, William Holden, Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck, and Tyrone Power were all strikingly handsome men in their time.

Errol Flynn is pretty much completely forgotten today.

His drinking, whoring, Nazi sympathies, and utter depravity destroyed his reputation and his looks soon followed. His was one of the faster, steeper declines in Hollywood.

The Nazi sympathies stories was debunked. Drinking, whoring, sounds like most everyone here at some point in their lives. He ruined his looks and health by burning the candle at both ends. I wonder what drove his self-destructive streak. Maybe just the Irish in him.

I thought young Gary Cooper and young Charles Farrell were just as beautiful. But by their 40s all these men looked like they were in their 60s or older.

Gary Cooper always looked old to me. Charles Farrell was handsome when he was young but he aged so badly that I can’t see him as anything other than My Little Margie’s neurotic father no matter what I watch him in.

Errol Flynn was the most handsome actor of them all. He could act, in dramas, but I don’t think comedies were his forte.

R9 I wanna hear more about Tracy Ullman’s show!

[quote]I wanna hear more about Tracy Ullman’s show!

It was called "The Big Love". I saw it, it wasn't very good. Tracey played a woman named Florence Aadland. Florence was the mother of Beverly Aadland. Beverly was Errol Flynn's girlfriend at the end of his life. Beverly was fifteen years old at the time.

It was odd because by the time the show was on Broadway (based on Florence Aadland's 1961 memoir), no one really knew or cared who these people were anymore.

Ullman is a skilled performer and quite funny. She accidentally spilled the beans on the show during its run. During her out of town tryout (Florida?), she exited the theater near where the audience was letting out and she could hear the patrons talking about the show. Apparently an older couple was within earshot- Wife: "What did you think of the show, dear?" Husband: "Well, I'll say one thing for it. It was time consuming."

Indeed, it was time consuming, which ultimately was everyone's review as well!

He was yummy. Starting with Captain Blood. The quintessential swashbuckler. I think he was wastrel in real life unfortunately. The story of his Mullholland Farm estate is interesting.

[quote]I wonder what drove his self-destructive streak. Maybe just the Irish in him.

I have read Flynn's memoirs and that is one of several lingering questions that I had. Flynn had a terrible relationship with his mother, whom he hated and who allegedly beat him when he was a child. I don't know if that is what he was trying to drown out by abusing booze and drugs but some of his self-destructive behavior is consistent with a person who endured abusive experiences at an early age.

In Like Flynn

Beautiful, but too much forehead in OP's pic

I looked at OP’s photo and thought it was Charlie Sheen.

“Cuban Rebel Girls” ain’t porn but young Bev was in with Flynn for the movie’s filming in Havana in 1959 during the Cuban Revolution. His last performance, onscreen or off.