The life of Sabrina (Norma Ann Sykes) is a fascinating farrago of fact, fantasy, photos, films, fiction, failures, fantastic feats, and fabricated fables.
This biography is built on many sources. It began with notes from Sir H and has been augmented with information from magazines, newspapers, people who knew Sabby, and my interviews with Sabrina, and many kind contributors, like those who washed her car or treated her breasts for Australian sunburn.
There is no guarantee that any of these facts is 100% accurate: it's the weird inconsistencies in the Sabrina story that make it so interesting.
Indicates a newspaper article. These rely heavily on the use of OCR on sometimes very poorly scanned newspaper archives. There will be transcription errors that I have missed: if you notice one, please let me know.
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Also see
- My Life Story by Sabrina in Australia Post, 23 June 1960
- A biographical article from Bombshells: Glamour Girls of a Lifetime
- The landmark 2002 article in the 'Mail on Sunday.'
- A detailed account of Sabrina's 1958-1959 visit to Australia
- Read the newspaper articles that chronicle the sad second Oz visit in 1961-1962.
- My interviews with Sabrina