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Sabrina (Norma Ann Sykes)
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3 September 2023
Yes, things have cooled down at Encyclopedia Sabrina, but the hunt continues. This adds to to knowledge of Sabrina's visit to German in February 1957 with Steve Cochran.
Feb. 02, 1957 - British television Star ''Sabrina'' at Garmisch: The British television star ''Sabrina'' her real name is Norma Sykes arrived at Garmisch Partenkirchen for a short visit. The well known bob-sleigh racer and president of the sports-club Bobmeister, Hanns Killian, received the guest at his hotel. In the bar of the hotel Alpenhof, Sabrina talked about her plans in movie-acting.
9 August 2023
You can watch an 11 minute YouTube documentary by Neil Sean, filmed on the sites important to Sabrina's story.
Sabrina was the impossibly-proportioned darling of Britain, the cast of the Goon Show , and most discerning testosterone-enabled beings during the 1950s and 1960s.
Sabrina, Norma Ann Sykes , D.Litt (Hon) was the voluptuous British Stockport lass who became Sabrina and accomplished above the hips what Elvis accomplished below .
She was the Cheshire cheese-cake pinup, actress, singer, cabaret star, publicity pioneer, and sex-queen who didn't like to be touched.
She was a 'dumb blonde' who was a genius at self-promotion, an ill-educated teenager because of lengthy hospital stays, and an honorary Doctor of Letters with an impossibly-proportioned figure.
A victim of polio, mocked for her lack of talent and excess of bosom, she became an international phenomenon who dated princes; charmed dictators, the public and cynical reporters; and generated more myths, lies, legends and throbbing memories than anyone else of her era.
Falling more or less accidentally into an industry for which she was - at first - unqualified, she endured, trained, paid her dues, and thrived to become the biggest, least talented, most photographed celebrity of her day.
Was she, as she herself once said, just a dumb blonde with a 42½ inch bust and a 19 inch waist? Or was she an pioneering promotional genius with a native sense of publicity that would make most agents weep with envy?
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The Life of Sabrina, 1936-2016
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| Stage name: |
Sabrina ( origins of the name ) |
| Real name: |
Born Norma Ann Sykes (she hated the name) After marriage, Sabrina Melsheimer (she hated the husband) |
| Born: |
19 May 1936 in Heaviley, Stockport, Cheshire, England. Note: she was not born in Blackpool or Wales in 1933 or 1938. |
| Stats: |
42½-18-36 The "½" was vital - it set her apart from her competition . |
| AKA: |
"The Hunchfront of Lime Grove" As Raymond Chandler would have said of Sabrina, she had curves “to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window”. |
| Career span: |
Working years: 1954-1969. Golden years: 1955-1959 |
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| Talents: |
Self-publicity Pinup modelling TV celebrity Stage acting Singing Acting in film and TV Performing in cabaret and concerts Driver [MP3]. Chef [MP3] |
| Status: |
Sabrina died on 24 November 2016 but our memories of her burn brightly. Her ashes were spread in a secret location in England. Do not believe the post-mortem crap published by the Daily Mail . Their vicious calumny is biased and often factually incorrect - probably a puerile and vindictive reaction caused by their now-defunct sister publisher The Mail on Sunday which published defamatory lies about Sabrina and were later forced to retract them . The snivelling cowards now prey on Sabrina's memory now she cannot defend herself. The editors and staff of the Daily Mail deserve to be slapped in the face on every possible opportunity. If you see them slithering along the street, please feel free to slap them in the face with a cricket bat on my behalf. As they crumple to the concrete gasping "Why?", whisper "Sabrina" into their shell-likes. |
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