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British actress (1914–1979)
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The Right HonourableThe Lady Churston
BornEileen Violet Needham
(1914-12-22)22 December 1914
London, England
Died1 December 1979(1979-12-01) (aged 64)
Saint Andrew, Guernsey
OccupationActress
Spouses
Charles Wynne-Griffiths ​ ​(died)​
Jack Dunfee
​ ​(m. 1939; div. 1943)​
Richard Yarde-Buller, 4th Baron Churston
​ ​(m. 1949)​
ChildrenDavid 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

She was born Eileen Violet Needham in London on 22 December 1914. Her father was company director Percy Needham. She later took the stage name Sandra Storme.

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”. She then returned to Britain and appeared in three more films and two experimental live television broadcasts by the BBC.

Personal life

She was married three times: first to Claud Harold Berram Arthur Wynne-Griffiths, from whom she was widowed and with whom she had a son, David Wynne-Griffiths. Her second marriage was on 15 November 1939 to the racing driver Jack Dunfee at the Caxton Hall Register Office in London. That marriage ended in divorce in 1943. On 31 March 1949 she married Richard Yarde-Buller, 4th Baron Churston at the Marylebone Register Office. Storme met Lord Churston in 1948 when she was visiting his mother, the Duchess of Leinster.

Lady Churston died at Woodcote in Saint Andrew, Guernsey on 1 December 1979.

Filmography

References

Notes
  1. Some sources give her birth date as April 1911.
Sources
  1. "Sandra Storme". BFI. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
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  4. Morris, Susan (20 April 2020). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019. eBook Partnership. ISBN 978-1-9997670-5-1. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
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  7. "PRODUCER MARRIES BRITISH FILM ACTRESS". The Birmingham Mail. 16 November 1939. p. 5. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  8. ^ "SANDRA STORME WEDS". The East Kent Times and Mail. 6 April 1949. p. 2. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  9. "Sandra Storme Wedding". Getty Images. Hulton Archive. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  10. 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.
  11. "CHURSTON". The Daily Telegraph. 5 December 1979. p. 36. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  12. 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.

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