Patrice Wymore

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. in 1945 she was Homecoming Queen at Kemper Military School. Following that selection she was booked for a week's engagement as a dancer at the Tower Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri in December 1945.

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". at the Lutheran Church, Nice, France. The daughter would later become a fashion model in Europe. In 1955 Wymore appeared with her husband Errol Flynn and Anna Neagle in the film version of King's Rhapsody. Although only in his forties, Flynn was already in a physical and mental decline by the time they married. Wymore took a break from acting to care for her now ailing husband, and to better raise their daughter, while settling on their estate in Jamaica. In addition to her work in the United States, she was "a favorite entertainer in some of Europe's most glamorous supper clubs".

Later career and personal life Following Flynn's death, Wymore returned to acting, mostly in summer stock musicals such as Carnival!, Guys and Dolls, Irma La Douce, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

She made three guest appearances on Perry Mason. In 1963 she appeared twice: as Maureen Norland in "The Case of the Libelous Locket," and as Jane Alder in "The Case of the Badgered Brother." In 1965 she played murder victim and title character Victoria Dawn in "The Case of the Murderous Mermaid." That year she was also cast in the short-lived soap opera Never Too Young, and in 1966 she appeared in the film Chamber of Horrors.

Flynn had left her a coconut plantation near Castle, in the parish of Portland, Jamaica, as well as a mansion and a cattle ranch. After her retirement she returned to Jamaica, where she opened a boutique and wicker furniture manufacturing business.

Wymore's daughter Arnella was found dead of an apparent drug overdose on September 21, 1998. She is survived by her grandson Luke Flynn who remembered her as 'a tough, resilient and elegant woman'.

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