Sandra Storme
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The Lady Churston | |
|---|---|
| Born | Eileen Violet Needham 22 December 1914 London, England |
| Died | 1 December 1979 (aged 64) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouses | Charles Wynne-Griffiths
(died) |
| Children | David Wynne-Griffiths |
Sandra Storme (née Eileen Violet Needham) (22 December 1914 – 1 December 1979) was an English dancer and actress, known for the films Murder in Soho (1939) and Q Planes (1939).
Biography
[edit]She was born Eileen Violet Needham in London on 22 December 1914.[1][a] Her father was company director Percy Needham. She later took the stage name Sandra Storme.[2]
She signed a contract with Paramount Pictures and went to Hollywood to appear in two films in 1937 where, according to The Illustrated London News, she was known as “Miss Perfection”.[3] She then returned to Britain and appeared in three more films and two experimental live television broadcasts by the BBC.
Personal life
[edit]She was married three times: first to Claud Harold Berram Arthur Wynne-Griffiths,[4] from whom she was widowed and with whom she had a son, David Wynne-Griffiths.[5] Her second marriage was on 15 November 1939 to the racing driver Jack Dunfee at the Caxton Hall Register Office in London.[6][7] That marriage ended in divorce in 1943. On 31 March 1949 she married Richard Yarde-Buller, 4th Baron Churston at the Marylebone Register Office.[8][9] Storme met Lord Churston in 1948 when she was visiting his mother, the Duchess of Leinster.[8]
Lady Churston died at Woodcote in Saint Andrew, Guernsey on 1 December 1979.[10][11]
Filmography
[edit]- Artist and Models (1937) – Model
- Sophie Lang Goes West (1937) – Helga Roma[12]
- A Spot of Bother (1938) – Sadie
- Murder in Soho (1939) – Ruby Lane
- Rope (1939 live television broadcast) – Leila Arden
- Q Planes (1939) – Daphne
- The Little Father of the Wilderness (1939 live television broadcast) – Mlle. Henriette
References
[edit]- Notes
- ^ Some sources give her birth date as April 1911.
- Sources
- ^ "Sandra Storme". BFI. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ "Bentley Boys (act. 1919–1931)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/101179. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 7 March 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ ""Miss Perfection" Alias Sandra Storme. English dancer and actress". Superstock. Illustrated London News Ltd, 1937 / Mary Evans Picture Library. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ Morris, Susan (20 April 2020). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019. eBook Partnership. ISBN 978-1-9997670-5-1. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1963. p. 502. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ "Snapshots of Hollywood collected at random". The Fresno Bee. 3 October 1937. p. 44. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ "PRODUCER MARRIES BRITISH FILM ACTRESS". The Birmingham Mail. 16 November 1939. p. 5. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ a b "SANDRA STORME WEDS". The East Kent Times and Mail. 6 April 1949. p. 2. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ "Sandra Storme Wedding". Getty Images. Hulton Archive. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 177.
- ^ "CHURSTON". The Daily Telegraph. 5 December 1979. p. 36. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (29 September 1937). "NEWS OF THE SCREEN; Ruby Keeler to Star in 'Love Below Freezing' for RKO-New Contract for Ritz Brothers". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
External links
[edit]- Sandra Storme at IMDb
- Copy from the Ecclesiastical Court of the Bailiwick of Guernsey of the Will and Testament of Sandra Eileen Violet Needham, Lady Churston, widow of Charles Wynne-Griffiths and wife of Richard Francis Roger Yarde-Buller, Baron Churston, of Woodcote, Le Monnaie, St Andrew, Guernsey. Dated 08/09/1978.