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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 December 1939Vol. X, No. 5

Errol Flynn As Producer

p. 35 · Read in the full issue

rE following is about Errol Flynn, now famous film star, and formerly a tobacco planter in Papua and a recruiter and miner in New Guinea:— As star romantic hero at Warners, Flynn is one of the most hardworking of Hollywood’s masculine actors. His boundless energy is not confined to act ing. He is now producing and writing for a film production company of his own.

With Howard Hill, champion archer, he has formed Flynn-Hill Productions Inc., to make a series of outdoor color shorts, with Hill producing and starring.

Warners’ favourite action hero will share in the production and do all the writing.

By choice, no acting for him.

Flynn himself is by way of being a sportsman. Not only is he Hollywood’s most famous sailor outside Popeye—he sails the seas in his own magnificent yacht, the “Sirocco”—but he’s a first-class tennis player as well.

In the doubles at Hollywood’s motion picture tennis tournament recently, he reached the finals with Stanley Briggs, Virginia Bruce’s brother. Sponsors of the tournament considered Flynn’s pulling power so great even in Hollywood that they made a special admission charge of 50 cents for this match.