Beverly Aadland


Beverly Elaine Aadland was an American film actress.
She appeared in films including South Pacific. As a teenager, she co-starred in the Errol Flynn film Cuban Rebel Girls, and had a relationship with him.

Early years

Aadland was born in Hollywood, California. She entered show business as a youngster, appearing in the film Death of a Salesman.

Biography

Beverly Elaine Aadland was 17 at the time she was with actor Errol Flynn when he died of a heart attack on October 14, 1959 in Vancouver, British Columbia at the age of 50. In 1961, Aadland's mother, Florence Aadland, alleged in the book The Big Love that actor Flynn had a sexual relationship with her daughter starting at age 15, yet there is also speculation he was led to believe she was 18. The book would be turned into a one-woman Broadway show starring Tracey Ullman as Florence. The memoir was reissued in 2018 by Spurl Editions. Beverly Aadland gave an account of her relationship with Flynn in People in 1988, confirming that she had had a sexual relationship with Flynn in her teens. Her relationship with Flynn was the subject of the 2013 movie The Last of Robin Hood. Aadland was played by Dakota Fanning.

Personal life

In 1960, William Stanciu, her then boyfriend, died in her apartment after being shot in a struggle between the two. That event led to her being a ward of the court for the following year.
Aadland was married and divorced twice before she married Ronald Fisher in the late 1960s. The couple had a daughter.
Beverly Aadland Fisher died on January 5, 2010 at the Lancaster Community Hospital from complications of diabetes and congestive heart failure. She was 67 years old.

Filmography