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 $1.33 million. The film had a much higher box office gross, with $1.454 million from the US and $1.928 million from overseas, making it Warner Brothers #1 hit of 1936. For a change of pace, Warners put him in a medical melodrama, "Green Light" (1937), playing a crusading doctor, a role originally intended for Leslie Howard. He then made another swashbuckler, replacing Patric Knowles in what was essentially a supporting role in "The Prince and the Pauper" (1937). He appeared opposite Kay Francis in "Another Dawn" (1937), a melodrama set in a British colony. Warners then gave Flynn his first