*** Errol Flynn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 - 14 October 1959)was an Australian actor. He was known for his romanticswashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his playboy lifestyle. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1942.

He "was born in Hobart, Tasmania, where his father ...was a lecturer (1909) and later professor (1911) of biology at the University of Tasmania.[ ] His mother was born Lily Mary Young, but [  ]changed her name to Marelle.[  ] He was expelled from Shore for fighting and, according to his own account, having been caught in a romantic assignation with the school's laundress He was also expelled from several other schools he had attended in Tasmania.[  ]In the early 1930s, Flynn left for England, and in 1933 he secured an acting job[  ] During the filming of Murder at Monte Carlo, Flynn was discovered by a Warner Brothers executive, signed to a contract and emigrated to America as a contract actor.[  ]Flynn as Captain Blood Flynn was an overnight sensation in his first starring [  ] Flynn was a member of the Hollywood Cricket Club with David Niven. His suave, debonair, and devil-may-care attitude toward both ladies and life has been immortalised in the English language by author Benjamin S. Johnson as, "Errolesque," in his treatise on the subject, An Errolesque Philosophy on Life.
[  ] Flynn, famous for his athletic roles and promoted as a paragon of physical beauty, was classified 4-F - unqualified for military service because of not meeting the minimum physical fitness standards. This created a public image problem for both Flynn and Warner Brothers. Flynn was often criticised for his failure to enlist while continuing to play war heroes in films. The studios' failure to counter the criticism was due to a desire to hide the state of Flynn's health. He was also expensive -
in the late 1940s his fee was $200,000 a film. By the 1950s, Flynn had become a parody of himself. Heavy alcohol and drug abuse left him prematurely aged and bloated. Flynn and Beverly Aadland met with Stanley Kubrick to discuss appearing together in Lolita. Flynn went to Cuba in late 1958 to film Cuban Rebel Girls. His final book, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, was written from August to October 1958 with the aid of ghostwriter Earl Conrad [  ]Published shortly after his death, the book contains humorous anecdotes about life in Hollywood as well as his youth in New Guinea. According to one literary critic, the book "remains one of the most compelling and appalling autobiographies written by a Hollywood star, or anyone else for that matter".Flynn had a reputation for womanizing. His freewheeling, hedonistic lifestyle caught up with him in 1942 when two under-age girls, Betty Hansen and Peggy Satterlee, accused him of statutory rape, The trial took place in January and February 1943, and Flynn was cleared of the charges. The incident served to increase his reputation as a ladies' man. The gossips took note of his friendships with Carole Lombard, Marlene Dietrich and Dolores del Río.[  ] In the late 1950s, Flynn met and courted the 15-year-old Beverly Aadland at the Hollywood Professional School, casting her in his final film,Cuban Rebel Girls (1959). According to Aadland, he planned to marry her and move to their new house in Jamaica, but during a trip together to Vancouver, British Columbia, he died of a heart attack at the age of 50. In a 1982 interview with Penthouse Magazine, Ronald DeWolf, previously known as L. Ron Hubbard Jr, claimed that his father had a strong friendship with Flynn, who was considered a family friend to the point of being looked upon as an adoptive father to DeWolf. He claimed Flynn and his father were alike, and engaged in various illegal activities together, including indulging in sexual acts with young underage girls and also drug smuggling. Flynn, however never became a practitioner of Hubbard's religious group,Scientology."

 

**** Another online version tells a different story about Flynn and Kubrick: "Kubrick considered Disney starlet Hayley Mills, of "Pollyanna" and later "The Parent Trap," but Walt Disney reportedly barred her from accepting[  ] A number of prominent British actors -- Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Noel Coward -- turned down the role of Humbert, fearing it would damage their reputations, before James Mason accepted the part. (Errol Flynn was interested, but only if his 15-year-old girlfriend Beverly Aadland could play Lolita; Kubrick wisely turned him down.) Completing the casting was Shelley Winters as the amorous Mrs. Haze and the chameleonic Peter Sellers as Humbert's elusive nemesis, Clare Quilty".