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Thread #90367   Message #1724787
Posted By: GUEST,Jack
22-Apr-06 - 02:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: Errol Flynn's willy and General Custer
Subject: RE: BS: Errol Flynn's willy and General Custer
Hello again folks.

I have read so many Errol biographies over the years that I can't be 100% sure which piece of info comes from which source, but I'll give you a list which will hopefully help a bit. Among the most memorable bios are Michael Freedland's "The Two Lives of Errol Flynn", Charles Higham's "Errol Flynn: The Untold Story", Lionel Godfrey's "The Life and Crimes of Errol Flynn", Gerry Connelly's "Errol Flynn in Northampton", John Hammond Moore's "The Young Errol Flynn Before Hollywood", Don Norman's "Errol Flynn: The Tasmanian Story", Earl Conrad's "Errol Flynn: A Memoir", Tony Thomas' "Errol Flynn: The Spy Who Never Was", Buster Wiles' "My Days with Errol Flynn" and Thomas/Behlmer/McCarty's "The Complete Films of Errol Flynn". Not completely Flynn-based but still worth a read for related info is Kenneth Anger's "Hollywood Babylon Parts 1 & 2", David Niven's "Bring On the Empty Horses", James Robert Parish's "Hollywood Bad Boys – Loud, Fast and Out of Control", Paul Young's "L.A. Exposed: Strange Myths and Curious Legends about the City of Angels" (which contains a section called Hung Jury where the author lists 50 well-endowed stars), Mitchell Symons' "The Celebrity Sex List Book" and Amy & Irving Wallace's "The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People" (hey, you asked – lol). In his comically sleazy book "Penis Size and Enlargement", Gary Griffin devotes a chapter to "Well-endowed Celebrities" – a who's who of penis size in Hollywood, and of course Errol's 11-incher is top of the list. Also worth watching if you ever come across them are Channel 4's "Secret Lives" (1996) and TCM's "The Adventure of Errol Flynn" (2004). But my personal favourite remains Errol's own posthumously released 1959 autobiography "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" – a fascinating, very funny, intelligent and articulately written memoir that I'd highly recommend to any fan who hasn't already read it.

In 2000, Marlene Dietrich biographer David Bret wrote a pretty controversial unofficial bio called "Errol Flynn: Satan's Angel", which is chock-full of lewd innuendo and salacious hearsay – it tells of how he "allegedly" liked to turn his back on director Michael Curtiz in front of the entire cast and "loudly break wind" (which the young Olivia de Havilland apparently found hilarious, p. 42), how he had same-sex encounters with actors Bruce Cabot, Helmut Dantine, Tyrone Power and Rory Calhoun as well as numerous female co-stars (e.g. Hedy Lamarr, Doris Duke, Barbara Hutton, Shelley Winters, Gloria Vanderbilt, Greer Garson, Lupe Velez), and that he enjoyed masturbating in omelettes which he then served to his houseguests (p. 159)! It also mentions an anecdote which was later confirmed as true – that Errol had the make-up team on The Adventures of Don Juan mold him a giant, lifelike prosthetic willy which he would regularly shock crew members with by sticking it through his unzipped fly as though it were his own willy. "Satan's Angel" is seen as the most tacky and perhaps unreliable biography, but it is nonetheless fun to read, and often laugh-out-loud funny.

I've read countless other tall tales of his outrageous practical jokes in the other bios too – that he masturbated on Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper's doorstep before asking "Will you invite me to come here again?"; that he once planted a dead snake in Olivia de Havilland's leggings "for fun" (something de Havilland has since confirmed as absolutely true several times over); that he kept a mural in his home of fish performing the Kama Sutra; that he owned a huge armchair which turned into an inflatable penis when sat on; that many of his personal possessions, such as bookshelves and cigarette lighters, were shaped like genitals; that his yacht Sirocco was such a hotbed of sexual activity that he frequently flew a flag reading "FFF" – short for "Flynn's Flying Fuckers". Another anecdote that appears to be true is that during his heavily alcoholic later years, when he was banned from drinking on film sets, he spiked oranges with vodka and eat them during his breaks! One last thing: if you go to http://www.anecdotage.com and do a search on "Errol Flynn" you'll find countless funny anecdotes on his life, though one can't vouch for their authenticity.

Oh, and there have been no comments yet on my pic of Errol in tights with a pet monkey! Are you just jealous or was it just so disturbing that you've erased it from your memories? Haha.