Word: errol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prince of swashbucklers, Errol Flynn, plays the lead in the real Douglas Fairbanks manner, winning his duels, his lady love, and the cheers of the multitude all in the same breathless instant...
...Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Olivia de Havilland; TIME...
...Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn. Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Olivia de Havilland; TIME...
Nearly as incredible as the legend of Robin Hood himself, the picaresque story of Errol Thomson Flynn's 29 years nevertheless boils clown to this-that his mettle has come nearer the heat of genuine adventure than any other of cinema's celluloid heroes. Of the same stout Cumberland strain that produced famous Bounty Mutineer Fletcher Christian, Errol is the son of Zoologist Theodore Thomson Flynn, of Queen's University, Belfast. As a child in Ireland he played with Fletcher Christian's sword, knew his 18th-Century cousin's renown from yellowed family documents...
...blond wig ("which made me look like a harlot") he swaggered for a week or so at $5 a day on the poop of a grounded H. M. S. Bounty on rockers. After the completion of the film, the impresario hit upon a great publicity stunt. Errol was called back to meet, fresh off an island steamer, a woolly young native in a seagoing cap and carrying a hand of bananas. To Errol this young Polynesian was introduced as Fletcher Christian of Pitcairn Island, a direct descendant of Mutineer Christian, and Flynn's blood cousin...