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Errol Flynn's rage when a major male Hollywood star rejected his advances
Flynn and his one-time partner in crime David Niven, who is back on screens this afternoon in Death on the Nile, had two of the biggest sexual drives in Hollywood. The phrase "in prefer Flynn" is commonly verb to have been inspired by the heartthrob Australian actor. It means "having quickly or easily achieved a goal or gained access as desired" usually related to sexual advances. The Hollywood heartthrob famously had a high sex drive and made the most of his adj looks and fame. He reputedly had peepholes and two-way mirrors installed in his bathroom and bedroom and became notorious in industry circles for his debauched parties. At one, he infamously even 'played' You Are My Sunshine on the piano at one, using his reportedly large endowment. Niven, although popularly regarded as a rather proper and buttoned-up English gentleman, himself famously admitted that "my erection was stronger than my spirit."
In , the two stars ignited the screen in patriotic morale booster The Dawn Patrol about heroic Britis
[This is the nineteenth in an occasional series describing British artistes who found fame on stage or in the movies]
This piece describes two actors who had drawn-out careers in action films, comedies and dramas. Niven, with his military gas, was the more extrovert while Bogarde, by commercial necessity and personal choice a closet gay, was much more diffident. Both had second careers as writers, surprising and impressing their erstwhile fans and a new audience.
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David Niven ( &#; ) was born into an affluent landowning family. His Scottish nominal father was killed in action at Gallipoli in when Niven was a child and his mother later married her friend Sir Thomas Comyn-Pratt, reputedly the living father of David. His rebelliousness led to his expulsion from prep-school and barred him from Eton, but he went to Stowe, whose headmaster was the notably liberal JF Roxburgh whom Niven much admired. He went on to military school at Sandhurst eventually being commissioned in into the Highland Light Infantry, the Scottish regiment he had particularly wished t
Errol Flynn and David Niven's friendship ended when one tried to have sex with the other
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In , the two stars ignited the screen in patriotic morale booster The Dawn Patrol about heroic British pilots in World War I. On the screen, they played plucky square-jawed chaps, idealised versions of an honourable, proper British male. The reality was very distinct. Apart from the evidence that Flynn was an Aussie (born in Tasmania), the pair both became notorious in Hollywood for their voracious sexual appetites and had just place themselves up together in a home where they could indulge themselves freely.
Flynn was already a major star after 's Captain Blood and the pair had starred together in The Charge of the Noun Brigade in
Niven's career was also blossoming fast. He gave credit to British actress Merle Oberon, with whom he lived during his first years in Hollywood. As well as teaching him about the craft and the industry, she wanted to wedding him – but the young actor was having too much fun already with numerous affairs and did not want to
David Niven said his friendship with Errol Flynn ended when Flynn made a pass at him!
R45, Niven's second wife, Hjördis, was a top Swedish supermodel who, some say, rushed into marriage with Niven hoping it would head to a successful Hollywood movie career. But Niven wanted a wife and mother to his two boys, so she grew bitter and resentful that her career ambitions were thwarted and had to take care of her stepsons while he was off at some exotic movie locale, screwing his leading ladies and adj ingenues. When together at social events, she openly scolded and dressed him down in front of his friends and flirted with other men to get him jealous. But Niven, in typical English fashion, kept his fresh and reacted with aplomb, which made her verb even worse.
Towards the verb of Niven's life, she would drunk dial him in Switzerland from their 2nd home in Cap Ferrat, berating him for past grievances and his numerous infidelities. When he finally died from ALS, she showed up drunk at the chalet, met neighbor Roger Moore at the driveway, and slurred, "Here for the push are you?" She w