Sandra Storme ( Eileen Violet Needham) (22 December 1914 – 1 December 1979) was an English dancer and actress, known for the films ''

Murder in Soho ''Murder in Soho'' is a 1939 British crime film directed by Norman Lee and starring Jack La Rue, Sandra Storme, Googie Withers and Bernard Lee. It concerns a murder in the Central London district of Soho. It was released in the U.S. as ''Murder ...

'' (1939) and ''

Q Planes ''Q Planes'' (known as ''Clouds Over Europe'' in the United States) is a 1939 British comedy spy film starring Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Valerie Hobson. Olivier and Richardson were a decade into their fifty-year friendship and were ...

'' (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

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and went to Hollywood to appear in two films in 1937 where, according to ''

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'', 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

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at the

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Richard Yarde-Buller, 4th Baron Churston Richard Francis Roger Yarde-Buller, 4th Baron Churston VRD (12 February 1910 – 9 April 1991) was a British peer and a naval officer. Early life Yarde-Buller was born on 12 February 1910. He was the eldest son of John Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baro ...

at the London Register Office. Storme met Lord Churston in 1948 when she was visiting his mother, the Duchess of Leinster. Lady Churston died at Woodcote in

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on 1 December 1979.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.

Filmography

* '' Artist and Models'' (1937) – Model * ''

Sophie Lang Goes West ''Sophie Lang Goes West'' is a 1937 American crime film directed by Charles Reisner, written by Frederick Irving Anderson, Doris Anderson, Brian Marlow and Robert Wyler, and starring Gertrude Michael, Lee Bowman, Sandra Storme, Buster Crabbe ...

'' (1937) – Helga Roma * ''

A Spot of Bother ''A Spot of Bother'' is the second adult novel by Mark Haddon, who is best known for his prize-winning first novel ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time''. Like ''Curious Incident'', ''A Spot of Bother'' examines mental health iss ...

'' (1938) – Sadie * ''

'' (1939) – Ruby Lane * ''

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'' (1939 live television broadcast) – Leila Arden * ''

'' (1939) – Daphne * ''The Little Father of the Wilderness'' (1939 live television broadcast) – Mlle. Henriette

References

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External links

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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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