Errol Flynn was quite the swashbuckler. In fact, was the term "swashbuckler" even coined before Flynn was in the Hollywood? Even as a dumb kid growing up in the 1980s, I associated the term with Flynn, who I had never seen in a film. It was just common knowledge.That's probably why Flynn is so good. Or the perception, thereof. Take any other actor or actress and associate them with a noun or adjective. "Grace" and Grace Kelly, maybe. But that's probably due to the name.
Flynn is more swashbuckling than Audrey Hepburn is precocious, Humphrey Bogart is grumpy or Cary Grant is smarmy.
Flynn is also synonymous with the ladies. As it turns out, probably the younger ladies. He was tried once for allegedly sexing up two teenagers. He was acquitted. He later allegedly bedded two other teenagers. This on top of the hundreds and hundreds of other women he screwed his entirely life because he was A) rich, B) incredibly handsome) and C) in the position (ha!) to do just about anything that walks.
Other rumors about the guy was that he was bisexual (probable) and a Nazi sympathiser (yeah, because zee Germans were the only people to dislike Jews).
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