"Circa late June 1935, Errol Flynn and his first wife, French-American actress Lili Damita, were photographed at their California home in the Hollywood Hills, basking in the glow of their whirlwind romance just weeks after marrying on June 19 in Yuma, Arizona. Their elopement, hastily arranged and largely unpublicized at the time, stunned the film industry—Flynn was still on the cusp of stardom, while Damita, a decade his senior and a veteran of both European and American cinema, brought worldly