The Young Errol. Flynn Before Hollywood

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Publisher Place: Victoria
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: First Edition

Description: 173 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A fascinating account of the early life of one of Australia's most colorful and controversial sons. John Hammond Moore trace film star Errol Flynn's turbulent career from his birth in sedate Hobart through his eccentric schooldays and his youth in Sydney and cruising the Pacific to his years as a pioneer tobacco planter in Papua and the discovery that led to Hollywood and stardom. The author comments: 'While his golden age in Hollywood produced wondrous swashbuckling, Errol Flynn was not really acting at all. He was merely transferring a natural style developed in Sydney, Port Moresby, Rabaul, and London to a much larger audience. Anecdotes, quotations from Flynn's own diaries and from people who knew him in Australia and Papua New Guinea crowd one upon the other to underscore this truth, and to embellish this rollicking tale of a man who in the author's words: 'lived for half a century the sort of life adolescents dream of but men dare not attempt.'

ISBN: 9781426972027