Patrice wymore biography

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Patrice Wymore Flynn, a Hollywood actress and cattle rancher who was the widow of swashbuckling screen legend Errol Flynn, has died at her seaside home in Jamaica. She was 87.

On Monday, family spokesman Robb Callahan said Flynn died Saturday at her home in Jamaica's Portland parish after battling pulmonary disease.

During her film career, she worked alongside actors such as Doris Day, Kirk Douglas and Randolph Scott. She played Frank Sinatra's girlfriend in the original "Ocean's 11" in 1960.

The Kansas-born actress met her future husband when she was cast as the female lead in the 1950 western "Rocky Mountain." They spent much of their nine-year marriage in Jamaica. He died in 1959.

For decades, Wymore lived on the 2,000-acre Errol Flynn Estates cattle ranch in Jamaica.

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Patrice Wymore Flynn, a film and television actress who appeared opposite Frank Sinatra in the original “Ocean’s Eleven” but earned wider notice for her real-life role as the last wife of matinee idol Errol Flynn died Saturday at her home in Portland, Jamaica. She was 87 and had pulmonary disease, said family spokesman Robb Callahan.

Wymore Flynn began her career on Broadway in the 1940s, performing in musicals such as “Hold It!” and “All for Love.” She made her Hollywood debut in the Doris Day-Gordon MacRae romantic comedy “Tea for Two” in 1950.

That year she also co-starred in “Rocky Mountain,” a western that was notable mainly for bringing her together with her future husband: She played a stagecoach passenger rescued from an Indian attack by Flynn in the role of a dashing Confederate army officer.

Soon after finishing the movie, Flynn broke off his engagement to a Romanian princess to marry Patrice. (In his 1959 autobiography — the aptly titled “My Wicked, Wicked Ways”— the actor wrote that he had his housekeeper break the news to the princess in a phone call.)

It was the third marriage for the notorious playboy, who in 1943 had been tried on statutory rape charges and acquitted, and the first for the elegant Wymore. She was 24 to his 41.

“Patrice typified everything that I was not, and I presumed that she knew what my life was, since my life had been an open newspaper,” Flynn wrote in his memoir. “She could cook Indian curry, she could dance, she could sing, she was reserved, she had beauty, dignity … homebody qualities that go toward making a sensible and lasting marriage.”

Their daughter, Arnella, was born in 1953, and they spent much of their time in Jamaica, where Flynn raised cattle and grew coconuts on a 2,000-acre ranch.

Despite his professed desire for a steady marriage, however, he continued his philandering, heavy drinking and drug use. He was also struggling in his career and h

American actress (1926–2014)

Patrice Wymore Flynn (born Patricia Wymore; December 17, 1926 – March 22, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actress of the 1950s and 1960s, known for her marriage to Errol Flynn.

Early life and stage career

Born Patricia Wymore in Miltonvale, Kansas, to a family of vaudeville performers, she began touring with them at the age of six. By the time she reached adulthood, she was an accomplished dancer with a good singing voice. She auditioned in New York City for a part in Up in Central Park, in which she performed in 1947.

Still "Patricia Wymore," she then starred, fourth billed, with Johnny Downs, Red Buttons, and Jet McDonald in the 1948 Broadway musical Hold It!, for which she won a Theatre World Award for "Promising Actress". This was followed by a five-month stint in the revue All for Love in 1949, where she was discovered by a talent scout from Warner Bros. who signed her up.

Film career

Her first film appearance under the name "Patrice Wymore" was in the 1950 film Tea for Two, opposite Doris Day and Gordon MacRae, where she made an impression with the Latin-flavoured rendition of "Crazy Rhythm". That same year she starred in Rocky Mountain opposite Hollywood legend Errol Flynn, with whom she would become romantically involved. Flynn and Wymore were traveling and living in Europe, mainly in Mallorca aboard Zaca, Flynn's yach