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 | edit source]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 | edit source]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 | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- Notes
- ^ Some sources give her birth date as April 1911.
- Sources
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External links
[edit | edit source]- 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.
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