Errol Flynn publicity photo circa 1935
by David Lee Guss
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Errol Flynn publicity photo circa 1935
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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{The Australian born actor and writer Errol Flynn was accused by film historian Charles Higham (1931-2012) of being a bi-sexual, Nazi sympathizer who worked underground for the Germans during the Spanish Civil war in the 1930's.
The claims were made after the examination of declassified government files. Higham also said Flynn in 1938 may have met Hitler secretly in his Bavarian mountain retreat.
Historians and Flynn's surviving relatives have dismissed as absurd the accusations made in Higham's 1980 biography of the Tasmanian born actor.}
"They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.
I do what I like.
I like my whiskey old and my women young.
[last words] I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
I can't reconcile my gross habits with my net income.
I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.
The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
If I have any genius it is a genius for living.
I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.
Women won't let me stay single, and I won't let myself stay married.
I've made six or seven good films - the others, not so good.
My job is to defy the normal.
By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor." Errol Flynn, 1909-1959
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November 20th, 2015
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