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 she told an interviewer, "and I admire his honesty, because he's absolutely right." Years later, however, de Havilland recounted that during a private screening of "Elizabeth and Essex", an astounded Davis exclaimed, "Damn it! The man "could" act!" Warners put Flynn in another Western, "Virginia City" (1940), a follow up to "Dodge City", which was very popular, making a profit of just under one million dollars. He then made another swashbuckler from a Sabatini novel, "The Sea Hawk" (1940), which had been planned since 1936. It was another hit with a profit of $977,000 on a budget of $1.7 million.