Clare Rosemary Sandars (24 April 1934 – 3 November 2007) was an English child screen actress. She was the daughter of John William Eric Graves Sandars, a businessman (and grandson of
Henry Cyril Percy Graves, 5th Baron Graves), and Margaret Mary Elwes (daughter of the singer
Gervase Elwes
Gervase Henry Cary-Elwes, DL (15 November 1866 – 12 January 1921), better known as Gervase Elwes, was an English tenor of great distinction, who exercised a powerful influence over the development of English music from the early 1900s up u ...
).
Career
As a child actress, Clare Sandars notably appeared as Mrs. Miniver's daughter Judy in ''
Mrs. Miniver
''Mrs. Miniver'' is a 1942 American romantic war drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Inspired by the 1940 novel '' Mrs. Miniver'' by Jan Struther, it shows how the life of an unassuming British h ...
''. There is a scene in ''Mrs Miniver'' where she plays
Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" on the piano for the family. She was given uncredited parts in two other films.
Family
Clare Sandars married
Sir James Napier Finnie McEwen, Bt. in 1958; they had three daughters. In 1973, she married English investment banker
Kenneth Wagg.
Clare Rosemary Sandars in The Peerage
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Filmography
References
External links
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1934 births
2007 deaths
British film actresses
20th-century British actresses
English child actresses
Actresses from London
Wives of baronets
20th-century English women
20th-century English people