Patrice Wymore
Patrice Wymore was a film and television actress who left show business in the late 1960s and became a successful cattle rancher in Jamaica, where she had first settled with her husband, Hollywood star Errol Flynn.
Born in Kansas, Wymore began performing in her youth and made her Broadway debut in the 1948 musical Hold It! She signed a contract with Warner Bros. and made her first movie, Tea for Two, in 1950.
She met Flynn that same year when she had a role in the western Rocky Mountain, in which he starred. When they married that October, she was 21 and he was 41. They remained together until his death in 1959.
Patrice Wymore was a film and television actress who left show business in the late 1960s and became a successful cattle rancher in Jamaica, where she had first settled with her husband, Hollywood star Errol Flynn.
Born in Kansas, Wymore began performing in her youth and made her Broadway debut in the 1948 musical Hold It! She signed a contract with Warner Bros. and made her first movie, Tea for Two, in 1950.
She met Flynn that same year when she had a role in the western Rocky Mountain, in which he starred. When they married that October, she was 21 and he was 41. They remained together until his death in 1959.
Following his death she worked primarily in television, with roles in such series as The Roaring 20's, Cheyenne, 77 Sunset Strip, Perry Mason, Never Too Young, The Monkees, and F Troop.
Her other films included The Big Trees, The Man Behind the Gun, and Ocean's Eleven.
After making a permanent home in Jamaica, she established a wicker furniture business and raised cattle on a 2,000-acre property.
Wymore died March 22, 2014, in Portland. Jamaica. She was 87.
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