Errol Flynn to Marelle. Flynn described his mother's family as ""seafaring folk"" and this appears to be where his lifelong interest in boats and the sea originated. Both of his parents were Australian-born of Irish, English, and Scottish descent. Despite Flynn's claims, the evidence indicates that he was not descended from any of the Bounty mutineers. Flynn received his early schooling in Hobart. He made one of his first appearances as a performer in 1918, aged nine, when he served as a page boy to Enid Lyons in a queen carnival. In her memoirs, Lyons recalled Flynn as "a dashing figure –
Errol Flynn $214,000 that year, and $200,000 in 1948. After a cameo in Warner Bros' "It's a Great Feeling" (1949), Flynn was borrowed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to appear in "That Forsyte Woman" (1949) which made $1.855 million in the US and $1.842 million abroad which was the 11th biggest hit of the year for MGM. He went on a three-month holiday then made two medium budget Westerns for Warners, "Montana" (1950), which made $2.1 million and was Warner Bros.' 5th biggest movie of the year, and "Rocky Mountain" (1950), which made $1.7 million in the US and was Warner Bros. 9th biggest movie