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Patrice Wymore
(1926–2014)

Biographical

A versatile actress, singer, and dancer, much of Patrice Wymore's career was spent in supporting roles at Warner Bros during the 1950s. She was better known as Errol Flynn's third wife, whom she married at the age of 23 after they appeared together in the 1950 western Rocky Mountain. While Wymore was just beginning her film career, Flynn’s was waning, with both working under Warner Bros contracts at the time. Wymore started performing at six, travelling America in vaudeville with her parents. By her early 20s, she was starring in New York musicals, and her role in the 1948 Broadway production Hold It! won her a Theatre World award, opening the door to Hollywood. In semi-retirement, Wymore spent six years caring for Flynn as his struggles with addiction worsened while raising their daughter, Arnella. During this time, they co-starred in the 1955 operetta King’s Rhapsody, where Flynn, visibly aged, did not sing while Wymore did. After Flynn’s death in 1959 at 50, Wymore continued working in film, television, and theatre before retiring permanently to the coconut plantation and cattle ranch in Port Antonio, Jamaica, that Flynn had left her.

Place of birth: Miltonvale, Kansas
Place of marriage: Monte Carlo, Monaco

She married Errol Flynn in 1950, with issue.

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