Sabrina

Norma Ann Sykes

Norma Sykes D.Litt (Hon) is the voluptuous British lass who became Sabrina and accomplished above the hips what Elvis accomplished below.
She is the Cheshire cheese-cake pinup, actress, singer, cabaret star, publicity pioneer, and sex-queen who didn't like to be touched.
She was a 'dumb blonde' who was a genius at self-promotion, an ill-educated teenager because of lengthy hospital stays, and an honorary Doctor of Letters with an impossibly-proportioned figure.
A victim of polio, mocked for her lack of talent and excess of bosom, she became an international phenomenon who charmed both the public and the cynical reporters, and generated more myths, lies, legends and throbbing memories than anyone else of her era.

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Catching up since your last visit?
Find New Sabrina Pictures on the New Pictures Page.
7 March 2010 - A whole new segment of the site: Sabrina's Live Shows. I don't know why it took so long to realise the need for this!
7 March 2010 - Sabrina Special, in the Weekly Sporting Review and Show Business, 18 April 1957

6 March 2010 - A lovely original photo, taken in South Africa

28 Feb 2010 - Two new (and expensive) 8x10 glossies, full of B.O.O.B.S. goodness!

The Sabrina-sized B.O.O.B.S. version is 2.2M with no watermark.
Click the key to get it, if you're eligible.

 
28 Feb 2010: A new magazine; number 104 in our collection! Sabrina's a Vulture for Culture - People (Aust), October 31, 1956

21 Feb 2010: Another mystery solved, thanks to Terry-Thomas and Ian Payne. The apparently badly-printed colour pix of Sabrina with an odd cavalier were always a mystery... until now!

14 Feb 2010: New additions to the Sabrina with Dick van Dyke collection.

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This site began at nylon.net as a tongue-in-cheek single page to complement the Goon Show pages. It was never meant to get this big, but its size, I guess, is proportional to the assets of its subject. Even if she was not a great artiste, she was certainly a great pioneer and phenomenon of modern celebrity. This is what this site celebrates.

I have made it a personal quest to discover everything about Sabrina. I call it a research project into the role of the internet in archiving memes and preserving our shared social history. Other people call it pathetic and sad... anyway! If you've read this far, you obviously agree with me, so to hell with the others.

She was a model, TV hostess, actor, singer, stage performer - and had no talent. Even she admitted that. Why then, was the Western world and the bearded president of Cuba so keen to see her that - at one time -10,000 people in Perth caused an airport terminal to collapse? Why did The Goon Show audience wet themselves whenever Spike Milligan slipped another reference to Sabrina past the BBC censors?

Like most of the male world (albeit 40 years after the event) I was intrigued by the lass. Were they real? (Yes, and they were insured). Who was she? (Norma Ann Sykes.) How did a bed-ridden teenage Cheshire girl end up as an international icon of femininity who rivalled Jayne Mansfield, Diana Dors and Marilyn herself? Why did she cause hysteria that made young people of all sexes literally push Frank Sinatra out of the way to get her autograph?

Those questions, and more, are the subject of the SabrinaStuff Site... Continued... for those who are interested

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Sabrina - Norma Ann Sykes - was the impossibly-proportioned darling of Britain, the cast of the Goon Show, and most discerning testosterone-enabled beings during the 1950s and 1960s.

Falling more or less accidentally into an industry for which she was - at first - unqualified, she endured, trained,