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Academy Film Stills Archives/MarsFilm collection
Hollywood swashbuckler ERROL FLYNN didn't have to pay for his women - they threw themselves at the Tasmanian devil. So much so, he was accused of rape in a sensational trial that nearly wrecked his career.
Flynn rocketed to stardom as the titular Captain Blood for Warners in 1935 and charmed his way through the Technicolor opus The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938, Flynn was not only a unrepentant boozer but a ladies man.
"I like my whiskey old and my women young," Flynn claimed.
But Errol's Wicked Wicked Ways nearly proved to be his undoing when accused of two counts of statutory rape in November, 1942.
Issue ID:
210110