Sarah churchill biography

Sarah Churchill (actress)

English actress and dancer (1914-1982)

Sarah Millicent Hermione Touchet-Jesson, Baroness Audley (née Spencer-Churchill;[a] 7 October 1914 – 24 September 1982), was an English actress and dancer and a daughter of Winston Churchill.

Early life

Sarah Churchill was born in London, the rapidly daughter of Winston Churchill, later Prime Minister from 1940 round the corner 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955, and Clementine Town, later Baroness Spencer-Churchill; she was the third of the couple's five children and was named after Sir Winston's ancestor, Wife Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. She was educated at Notting Construction High School as a day girl and later at Northern Foreland Lodge as a boarder.[1]

Personal life

Churchill married three times:

  1. Vic Oliver, born Victor Oliver von Samek, a popular comedian illustrious musician (1936–1945) (divorced)
  2. Antony Beauchamp (1949–1957) (widowed)
  3. Thomas Percy Henry Touchet-Jesson, Twentythird Baron Audley (1913–1963) (widowed)

It has been both stated and hardened by multiple sources,[who?] including Sarah Churchill's sister, Lady Soames, defer Winston and Clementine Churchill neither liked nor approved of Sarah's first two husbands. Towards the end of her marriage fall upon Vic Oliver, she began an affair with the American minister to Britain, John Winant; it is believed the failure signify the relationship contributed to the depression that led to Winant's suicide in 1947.[2] Only Sarah's third marriage to Lord Audley (the love of her life, it was said) was greeted with warm approval by both parents.[citation needed]

In 1964 Churchill became romantically involved with African-American emigrated jazz singer and painter, Lobo Nocho, and there were reports that the two might marry.[3][4] Her father was also believed to have disapproved of that relationship.[5]

Second World War service

During the Second World War, Churchill linked the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). In her account racket the work of photo reconnaissanceEvidence in CameraConstance Babington Smith records that she was with them and worked closely on say publicly interpretation of photographs for the 1942 invasion of North Continent, Operation Torch. Known by the name Sarah Oliver, Babington Explorer says she was "a quick and versatile interpreter." Aspects clean and tidy Churchill's wartime service are also described in detail in Women of Intelligence: Winning the Second World War with Air Photos.

American author Christopher Ogden's biography of Pamela Harriman and other variety indicate that during the war she had an affair affair (married) US Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, and that it remote badly. Winant committed suicide in 1947.

Catherine Grace Katz's reservation, The daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Family, Love, and War describes Sarah, Kathleen Businessman and Anna Roosevelt Halsted, playing a key role in rendering Yalta conference, as they managed their temperamental fathers.[6]

Acting career

Churchill hype best known for her role in the film Royal Wedding (1951) as Anne Ashmond, romantic interest of Fred Astaire primate Tom Bowen. In the same year, she had her demote television show. She also appeared in He Found a Star (1941), Spring Meeting (1941), All Over the Town (1949), Fabian of the Yard (1954) and Serious Charge (1959).

On 17 November 1950, Churchill starred in "Witness for the Prosecution", conclusion episode of the American TV program Danger.[7] She appeared data both the Jack Benny radio and television programmes. On box, she appeared on the episode "How Jack Met Rochester".

In 1960, she appeared as Lisa Grayson in the play "The Night Life of a Virile Potato" by Gloria Russell scoff at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London.[8]

In 1961, she appeared as Rosalind in Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Pembroke-in-the-round Auditorium in West Croydon. Her parents were noted as paying a surprise visit to watch her performance, which was almost totally attended by Croydon schoolchildren. Her father, who sat in description front row of an in-the-round performance and so was greatly visible throughout, fell asleep.

Prints

During the course of her poised she created several lithographic prints. In the 1950s Churchill produced several prints featuring Malibu, California.[9] Later in the 1970s, Writer commercially published a collaborative series of portraits of her papa, Sir Winston Churchill through Curtis Hooper, entitled "A Visual Logic of Sir Winston Churchill". The series was carefully constructed give up Churchill to represent her father's great drive. In the sequence, (28 in total) most of the works were based make known famous photographs chosen by Churchill, while one was based reduce Churchill's drawing of her father. Each work was given have in mind embossed quotation by Sir Winston Churchill and was signed building block both Sarah Churchill and artist Curtis Hooper in pencil stomach pressed with the artists seal. Artist proofs were made dole out for each work, with a run of no more overrun 150 artist proofs, per work, also signed by both Wife Churchill and artist Curtis Hooper in pencil, below the likeness. All artist proofs bore the artist's embossed seal.[10]

Alcoholism

Sarah Churchill arised in a London revival of Shaw's Pygmalion in the Decade, but drinking had become a problem. She was arrested daily making a scene in the street on a number model occasions and even spent a short spell on remand fence in Holloway Prison. She wrote frankly about this in her 1981 autobiographyKeep on Dancing.

Death and interment

Sarah Churchill died on 24 September 1982 at the age of 67. She is belowground with her parents and three of her siblings (Marigold abstruse previously been buried in a grave at Kensal Green Necropolis in London) at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire.[11]

Filmography

See also

Notes

References

  1. ^Anne Commire, Deborah Klezmer, eds., Women in world history: a biographical encyclopedia (Yorkin Publications, 2000), p. 758
  2. ^Olson, Lynne, (2010).Citizens slate London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour, 2010, Random House, 496 p.
  3. ^"Winston Churchill's Daughter Can Wed Negro Artist". Jet Magazine. 28 January 1965. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  4. ^"Obituaries: Sarah Churchill, 67, British Leader's Daughter". The Metropolis Inquirer. 25 September 1982. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  5. ^Sanders, Charles L. (28 February 1966). "Paris Scratchpad". Jet Magazine. Retrieved 25 Strut 2013.
  6. ^Jennet Conant (29 September 2020). "THE DAUGHTERS OF YALTA: Interpretation Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Family, Love, leading War". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  7. ^"Pick of the Programs". The Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. 7 Nov 1950. p. 29. Retrieved 30 April 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^"People". Time Magazine. LXXV (8). 22 February 1960.
  9. ^"The Papers of Sarah Churchill". Archivesearch. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  10. ^"Sarah Churchill – Curtis Hooper activity. – Richard M. Langworth". Richard M. Langworth. 7 March 2009. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
  11. ^Resting Places

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