The Lady Churston | |
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Born | Eileen Violet Needham 22 December 1914 London, England |
Died | 1 December 1979 | (aged 64)
Occupation | Actress |
Spouses | Charles Wynne-Griffiths
(died) |
Children | David 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).
She was born Eileen Violet Needham in London on 22 December 1914.[1][a] Her father was company director Percy Needham. She later took the stage name Sandra Storme.[2]
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”.[3] She then returned to Britain and appeared in three more films and two experimental live television broadcasts by the BBC.
She was married three times: first to Claud Harold Berram Arthur Wynne-Griffiths,[4] from whom she was widowed and with whom she had a son, David Wynne-Griffiths.[5] Her second marriage was on 15 November 1939 to the racing driver Jack Dunfee at the Caxton Hall Register Office in London.[6][7] That marriage ended in divorce in 1943. On 31 March 1949 she married Richard Yarde-Buller, 4th Baron Churston at the Marylebone Register Office.[8][9] Storme met Lord Churston in 1948 when she was visiting his mother, the Duchess of Leinster.[8]
Lady Churston died at Woodcote in Saint Andrew, Guernsey on 1 December 1979.[10][11]