Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fame, male privilege and hero worship all played a part in the outcome. Describing the relevance the Flynn trial has today, ...

To millions he was the original A List heart-throb. But to the FBI he was a dangerous deviant. The swashbuckling actor’s legendary lovemaking was fully documented by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s ...

Harvey Weinstein wasn’t Hollywood’s only monster. Now, thanks to the scores of victims coming forward after the #MeToo movement, fans are seeing just how corrupt and scandalous the entertainment ...

Historian Patricia A. O’Brien puts the fame of the quintessential film star with a troubled life into the context of an ...

Among Errol Flynn’s best-known roles is playing the title character in the 1938 movie “The Adventures of Robin Hood.” Should June 20 be International Swashbuckler’s Day? Errol Flynn (1909-59), the ...

If there’s a special place in hell for biographers who debunk cherished, perfectly entertaining myths about their subjects, Jeffrey Meyers, author of Inherited Risk: Errol and Sean Flynn in Hollywood ...

BEAM ENDS—Errol Flynn—Longmans, Green ($2). Seven years ago Cinemactor Errol Flynn (Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade) whose private life last made news when he and his wife, Cinemactress ...

We may as well retire the word "dashing," since nowadays it applies to nearly no one. The adjective fits icons and movie stars and royal personages who exist only in the past. Of all the dashing ...

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Hellraising film star Errol Flynn, the first action hero of Hollywood, died on October 14, 1959, at the age of 50. Flynn was born in Tasmania to a respected middle-class family, but by his teenage ...

After starring in the 1935 film “Captain Blood,” actor Errol Flynn became the big screen’s foremost swashbuckler. Seven years later, two underage girls accused the golden age movie star of statutory ...