The Baron of Mulholland: A daughter Remembers Errol Flynn (Paperback)

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Several years after the death of her famous father, the teenaged Rory Flynn was discovered by the modeling world and thereafter worked as a high fashion model in New York, London and Paris for nearly a decade. Afterward, she decided to try her talents on the other side of the camera and has since traveled the world as a still photographer for the film industry. Currently, she is happily based in the Hollywood Hills, where she lives with her film producer husband Gideon Amir and their teenaged son Sean, who is carrying on the Flynn name as a successful film and television actor.

Product Details

• Paperback: 164 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (November 18, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1425712509
• ISBN-13: 978-1425712501
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #852,262 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars All that waiting, for THIS?, September 21, 2007

By	B. Warrick "Flynnatic" (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was on the waiting list for this book, and as one of the first 500, was supposed to get an autographed copy.

First, that never happened - I got the book like everyone else, several months past it's expected release date, and with no autograph.

But that is really a personal issue, and was by no means the worst of it.

After all that waiting, basically all we got was a bunch of photos - many of which are readily available elsewhere...and photocopied pictures of semi-legible letters. Not much at all in the way of analysis or personal commentary, which is what I was hoping for from one of Errol Flynn's daughters.

Additionally, a good chunk of the book (about 1/3) is related not to Errol, but to Sean Flynn, who was lost in the Cambodian jungle during the Vietnam War - long after Errol Flynn's death in 1959. While the issue of Sean Flynn is interesting, there is another whole book written on that topic, and really, the subject is not on-topic for this book, which was supposed to be about The Baron.

Maybe I got my hopes up for something grand, after I purchased and read Maria Cooper Janis's magnificent tribute to Gary Cooper.

This book pales in comparison, which is too bad because many of us were looking forward to it for a very long time.

Let's keep our fingers crossed that Olivia deHavilland gets a book completed...because frankly, based on the interviews with her on various DVD sets, she might shed some more compelling light on the subject of this fascinating man, who many of us adore.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars NOT DADDY DEAREST, March 31, 2007

By	Alan Hale "xanadumichael" (Nashville, Tennessee) - See all my reviews

A coffee table book, this is Rory Flynn's homage to her father. There are interesting family photographs and she doesn't seem to dodge some of her family pain (e.g., her mother's alcoholism). Of particulat interest are the reproductions of letters written by her father, mostly to either her mother or her. You have to adjust to his handwriting, but he was very articulate (and a good speller and grammarian). And swashbuckler he may have been, but he was much more the loving, almost traditional father...against his reputation as somewhat of a scoundrel. Actually, I'd probably give it four stars if there wasn't so much focused on her half-brother Sean, whom she obviously idolized. His disappearance in Vietnam, while a photo journalist, is unfortunate, but I purchased the book for Errol, not Sean. [She has a good website and seems to be an outstanding photographer in her own right.]

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating book, January 26, 2007

By	ijhopkinson (Yorkshire) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Rory Flynns book provides a fascinating insight into a complex and enigmatic man who led an extroadinary life.
I defy anyone not to be moved by her reminiscences of her father especially her memories of the last evening she spent with him.
The book is a genuine, warm and heartfelt memoir which deserves a wide audience.