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The two lives of Errol Flynn / by Michael Freedland.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W. Morrow, 1979, c1978.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: x, 258 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0688034659 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/028/0924 B
LOC classification:
  • PN2287.F55 F7 1979
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Adult Book Phillipsburg Free Public Library Adult Non-Fiction Adult Non-Fiction 791.43028 Freedl Available 674891000398264
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Kirkus Book Review

The grand biography of that elemental hedonist Errol Flynn still waits to be written. Michael Freedland's is a skimpy, shoddy performance that barely suggests the drunk-womanizer-actor-writer-sailor that Flynn was. The detail that could have been brought to his drink obsession is missing; his roles pass by like baseball cards; and even his women are vastly shortchanged. ""One of his former wives"" reportedly contributed new information to the new biography; it doesn't show. For that matter, Errol is better depicted in Nora Eddington Flynn's Errol and Me, and his nymphet Beverly Aadland is delivered in all her trashy glory by her own mother. Maybe worst of all, Freedland has no ear for Flynn's mock-Barrymore gifts of persiflage, of seductive compliment--the animal shine of the man as he works his wiles. In short, Flynn is never present on the page. What we get is a flimsy run-through of his early life in Tasmania, his adventures in the wilds and at sea and selling slaves, his entry into films, fame, the rape trials and paternity suits, the wives, children, mistresses, and disasters, dope addiction and alcoholism. And for that you don't need this. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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