Errol Flynn portrait number 1 circa 1935
by David Lee Guss
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Errol Flynn portrait number 1 circa 1935
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"Errol Leslie Flynn (20 June 1909 - 14 October 1959) was an Australian born actor who achieved fame in Hollywood after 1935. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films, and became an American citizen in 1942.
Flynn was an immediate sensation in his first starring Hollywood role, Captain Blood (1935). Then, typecast as a dashing adventurer, he played an integral role in the re-invention of the action-adventure genre with a succession of films over the next six years, most under the direction of Michael Curtiz: The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936),The Prince and the Pauper (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938; his first Technicolor film), The Dawn Patrol (1938), Dodge City (1939), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) and The Sea Hawk (1940).
In collaboration with Hollywood's best fight arrangers, Flynn became noted for fast-paced sword fights, beginning with The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood. He demonstrated an acting range beyond action-adventure roles in light contemporary social comedies, such as The Perfect Specimen (1937) and Four's a Crowd (1938), and melodrama The Sisters (1938). During this period Flynn published his first book, Beam Ends (1937), an autobiographical account of his sailing experiences around Australia as a youth. He also travelled to Spain, in 1937, as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War."
Biographer Charles Higham claimed Flynn was a Nazi sympathizer.
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October 10th, 2016
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