Last add re: photographer Peter Stackpole (pg. 2584)....he was a minor character in one of the most notorious tales of the noir city, that of Errol Flynn, his yacht "Sirocco", and the allegation of rape on the part of 15 year-old actress Peggy Satterlee....Stackpole was on board that fateful August 1941 weekend, photographing Flynn for a Life Magazine feature...
Satterlee goes for a ride on Flynn's dinghy....
In Oct. 1942, Stackpole's pictures were subpoenaed by the D.A. as evidence that Satterlee had been on board (a fact that Flynn was not contesting)...Sid James, the magazine's L.A. bureau chief, expressed concern about Life's involvement in the case potentially damaging their relationship with the industry in this internal memo....
As the trial approached Stackpole became increasingly concerned that Flynn's attorney (legendary Hollywood fixer Jerry Giesler), would drag him into the case, as Stackpole had driven the girl home from the docks at the end of the weekend....
Satterlee displaying the subject photos at trial....
Giesler to the left of Flynn.
As it turned out, Giesler never employed the Stackpole gambit, winning acquittal based on Flynn's celebrity appeal to the predominantly female jury, and Satterlee's sketchy background (she'd already had an abortion)....here Flynn thanks the jurors...(Flynn was also acquitted of raping another young woman, Betty Hansen, at the same trial)....
In addition to the acquittal, the trial benefited Flynn in that he made the acquaintance of 19 year-old Nora Eddington, who was working at the courthouse's snack bar....she was soon pregnant and the couple married in Mexico in 1944.
Flynn, Eddington, Rita Hayworth and husband Orson Welles celebrating Hayworth's 28th birthday aboard Flynn's yacht "Zaca" in a Mexican port, 10/17/46....Hayworth and Welles were filming the classic film noir "The Lady from Shanghai", they both starred in the pic and Welles also directed....Flynn was contracted for 2 months use of the boat, which he piloted up the coast to San Francisco, where the film reaches it's climax.
Flynn and Eddington were divorced in early '49, within months she was remarried, to the crooner Dick Haymes.
Eddington and Haymes split up in '53, and Haymes was quickly married again, this time to....wait for it....Rita Hayworth.
As for Peggy Satterlee, there is no mention of her whatsoever in the press after 1945...IMDB reports that she died in Reno NV. on 11/5/2005, age 79.
Source for the Stackpole/Flynn saga is here....
http://blog.nyhistory.org/peter-stac...lynn-and-life/