Errol Flynn : The true story of Australia's Hollywood icon

O'Brien, Patricia

Allen & Unwin（2026/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 384 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781761472954

Full Description

Handsome and charismatic, Errol Flynn was one of the first great screen idols. He mesmerised millions around the world with his swordsmanship, swagger and smouldering sexuality. He portrayed an array of heroes in the Golden Age of Hollywood, and his life off screen was no less colourful.

This groundbreaking biography is the first complete account of Errol Flynn's life, from his unusual childhood in Tasmania and damaging family secrets, to his time in the brutal plantations of New Guinea, and his discovery by a Warner talent spotter. He quickly found fame in lead roles in blockbuster films like Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood. He was the man who had it all, who every man wanted to be, who every woman wanted.

This is a revealing and intimate portrait of Flynn, and gives serious attention to the many women in his life for the first time. Flynn's 1942 rape trial uncovered the sexual trafficking of underage girls in Hollywood on a grand scale. Tragically, he died aged only fifty, the result of a life lived to excess.

'Such a great story. I wish I had written this.' Peter FitzSimons

'Immaculately researched and brilliantly told. Errol Flynn is more gripping than all his movies put together.' Alison Bashford

'O'Brien brilliantly takes us to the dark heart of the world's most famous dream factory and one of its most notorious, and celebrated, habitues.' Frank Bongiorno

Contents

Prologue

PART ONE Australian Made
1 Marelle and Theodore
2 Cultural Cradles
3 The Boy

PART TWO Imperial Training
4 Flynn's Tropical Pacific Islands
5 Coming of Age in New Guinea
6 Making Myths into Movies

PART THREE Colonising America
7 To the Film Colony
8 Mr Lili Damita
9 The Pen is Mightier than the Sword
10 The Dianas of Hollywood

PART FOUR Innocence in America
11 On the Crest of a Wave
12 Every Wave Has to Break
13 War

PART FIVE Having it All?
14 The Next Curve in the Road
15 No Bed of Roses
16 For Richer, for Poorer
17 Till Death Do Us Part

Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index