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Nora Eddington
(1924–2001)

Biographical

An American actress with a very brief film career, Nora Eddington was best known as Errol Flynn's first wife. She grew up in Los Angeles and, after graduating from Hamilton High School, worked at a tobacconist’s kiosk in the Los Angeles courthouse, where Flynn had a hearing and met her. They married soon after she informed him she was expecting his child. The secret ceremony took place in Acapulco, where her father worked as a sheriff's secretary. Although Eddington had little direct involvement in the film industry, she appeared in a small role in Flynn’s 1948 film Adventures of Don Juan. Her time in the public eye was largely tied to her marriage, which lasted until their divorce in 1949.

Place of birth: Chicago
Place of first marriage: Acapulco, Mexico
Place of second marriage: Beverly Hills
Place of death: Los Angeles

Daughter of Jack Eddington, she was married firstly to Errol Flynn in 1943 (with issue, divorced 1948), secondly to Dick Haymes in 1949 (divorced 1953), and thirdly to Richard Black in 1965 (with issue, a son, Kevin).

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