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The official site of the life, career, and times of
Sabrina
Norma Ann Sykes
for the last years.
19 May 1936 - 24 November 2016
A.K.A. Norma Ann Sykes,
Sabby,
Mrs Sabrina Melsheimer, Dr. Norma
Sykes
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full history of Encyclopedia Sabrina from
16 June, 2000
to
30 October, 2026
30 October 2026
It's 1964 and Sabrina is not sure where her future lies. It is a new kind of uncertainty that the beautiful entertainer understandably finds irksome.
The 27-year-old Stockport girl, who has wowed the wolves in nightclubs from Manhattan to Madrid, cannot decide whether to make her home in England or to settle in the US... I've grown sick of my image as a man eater."
25 October 2026
An addition to the incident where Sabrina walked out of the 1956 Woman of the Year ceremony in a huff.
24 October 2026
How soon they forget.
In 1998, a man had to write to a newspaper to convince his son that Sabrina once existed.
20 August 1988 - Daily Record, p.22
Sabrina the sex symbol
I SAY there was a beautiful film star years ago called Sabrina.
My son says I’m wrong. There’s a £5 bet. - M. MacLeod, Glasgow.
21 October 2026
Spotting the genuine Sabrina can be tricky, since there were several busty blonde bombshells competing for the public gaze. Here is a lesson in Sabrina Spotting from 1978!
19 October 2026
In 1956, pictures of Sabrina in the nude were taking Britannia's place on the back of imitation £1 notes. And the girl who made headlines out of necklines was very, very angry.
17 October 2026
On 15 January 1956, the BBC broadcast a satirical song about Sabrina getting replaced by Corinne Grey - and Sabby was NOT amused.
17 October 2026
In 1956, Sabrina went to war with a parson who made fun of her before pupils of Sabby's old school.
Sabrina was the impossibly-proportioned darling of Britain, the cast of the Goon Show , and most discerning testosterone-enabled beings during the 1950s and 1960s.
Sabrina, Sabby, Norma Ann Sykes, D.Litt (Hon) was the voluptuous British Stockport lass who accomplished above the hips what Elvis accomplished below .
She was the Cheshire cheese-cake pinup, actress, singer, cabaret star, publicity pioneer, and sex-queen who didn't speak, and 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 dated princes; charmed dictators, the public and cynical reporters; and generated more myths, lies, legends and throbbing memories than anyone else of her era.
Falling more or less accidentally into an industry for which she was - at first - unqualified, she endured, trained, paid her dues, and thrived to become the biggest, least talented, most photographed celebrity of her day.
Was she, as she herself once said, just a dumb blonde with a 42½ inch bust and a 19 inch waist? Or was she an pioneering promotional genius with a native sense of publicity that would make most agents weep with envy?
Read on, and decide for yourself.
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The Life of Sabrina, 1936-2016
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Goon Show and other radio references to Sabrina
Stage name: |
Sabrina ( origins of the name ) |
Real name: |
Born Norma Ann Sykes (she hated the name) After marriage, Sabrina Melsheimer (she hated the husband) |
Born: |
19 May 1936 in Heaviley, Stockport, Cheshire, England. Note: she was not born in Blackpool or Wales in 1933 or 1938. |
Stats: |
A fully insured 42½-18-36 The "½" was vital - it set her apart from her competition . |
AKA: |
"The Hunchfront of Lime Grove" As Raymond Chandler would have said of Sabrina, she had curves “to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window”. |
Career span: |
Working years: 1954-1969. Golden years: 1955-1959 |
Residences: |
Potential future shrines:
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Talents: |
Self-publicity Pinup modelling TV celebrity Stage acting Singing Acting in film and TV Performing in cabaret and concerts Driver [MP3]. Chef [MP3] |
Status: |
Sabrina died on 24 November 2016 but our memories of her burn brightly. Her ashes were spread in a secret location in England. Do not believe the post-mortem crap published by the Daily Mail . Their vicious calumny is biased and often factually incorrect - probably a puerile and vindictive reaction caused by their now-defunct sister publisher The Mail on Sunday which published defamatory lies about Sabrina and were later forced to retract tem . The snivelling cowards now prey on Sabrina's memory now she cannot defend herself. The editors and staff of the Daily Mail deserve to be slapped in the face on every possible opportunity. If you see them slithering along the street, please feel free to slap them in the face with a cricket bat on my behalf. As they crumple to the concrete gasping "Why?", whisper "Sabrina" into their shell-likes. |
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