Sabrina

4 October 2024

I have found several new articles about Sabrina's club appearances in the USA in 1961

30 September 2024

A rare new article. Found accidentally when looking for pictures, this article from 1968 describes how Sabrina didn't impress Howard Marks in about 1954.

21 September 2024

A little new addition. Sabrina with Steve Cochran publicising his Beat Generation movie.

14 September 2024

In case you were wondering, things have not been calm at Sabrina Encyclopædia. I have been slowly but surely converting VIP (BOOBS) images to regular large image downloads. This will take some time. There are about 84 left to do...

4 September 2024

Sabrina leans forward in (what I call) her claw dress.

16 August 2024

A momentous moment in the long history of the Sabrina site, but it will not mean anything to anyone else.
Today I finally moved all images to the \pix folder which I've been planning to do for 20 years. My old web host didn't allow...
Sorry. I'm boring even myself.

Just let me know of broken picture links.

But it was a historic day. An historic day? Boring myself again.

For the record, there are now 3,023 pictures of Sabrina on the site. Yay.

Here is one at random.

9 August 2024

A huge rebuild of the 66 Souvenir picture page. It includes the conversion of all 60 VIP photos to normal downloads, and a big restructure of the page (within the limits of my ancient and limited 1998 HTML skills). Enjoy.

As an added bonus, listen to the redubbed voice of Sabrina used in her first movie Stock Car, because she was considered not Cockney enough.

See more history from the last years.

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, Norma Ann Sykes , D.Litt (Hon) was the voluptuous British Stockport lass who became Sabrina and 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 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?

She's Our Sabrina.

Welcome to Encyclopedia Sabrina

Please enjoy the phenomenon that was our Sabrina who - until 24 November 2016 - was alive, gorgeous, and fairly well in Hollywood, and in contact with the Sabrina Site !

Can YOU support the Sabrina Site?

See all the Sabrina News since the site began.

Read a Word from Mark the Webmaster , explaining why on earth I created this site in the first place.

The Life of Sabrina, 1936-2016

In Australia 1959 and 1961

Photos

Magazines and Newspapers | In books

Movies | Stage shows | Plays

Short films | Newsreels | Television

Songs

My Interviews with Sabrina

Odd Things about Sabrina

Incidents Involving Sabrina

Readers' Memories of Sabrina

Sabrina Advertises

Goon Show references

Sabrina in Court

Sabrina Nude

Tributes to Sabrina

Contact Mark, the SabrinaMaster

Site News and History

Conditions of use

You're new here?

You're frightened, confused, overwhelmed by the sheer hugeness of Sabrinastuff? I would not be surprised. They ARE huge.

Sabrina simultaneously terrified and delighted short men like Arthur Askey who were standing nearby when she turned around suddenly.

Here's a good place to start your Sabrina experience.

The Life Story of Sabrina

Could there be a miniseries in this?

Vince Gilligan, let's do lunch. Tentative series title: Breaking Bra .

Photos - I have about 2,900 in 2022.

Let's face it, chaps: Sabrina was not camera-shy.

Vintage magazines and newspaper articles - hundreds to peruse.

It may shock you, but Sabrina was not averse to publicity, and that led to a fascinating farrago of Fleet Street facts and fantasy.

Read all of it; believe half of it. Cry out "Bloody Nora!" over the other half.

Sabrina's movies . All ten of them. She was always perfectly cast.

• Stock Car (1955)
• Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1956)
  
• Ramsbottom Rides Again (1956)
  
• Just My Luck (1957)
  
• Make Mine a Million (1959)
  
• Satan in High Heels (1962)
  
• House of (the) Black Death (1965)
  
• The Phantom Gunslinger (1967)
  
• Mountains of the Moon (1967) with Tarzan!
  
• The Ice House (1969)

Sabrina in Australia 1959 and in 1961

Sabrina in Court

Litigious Sabrina spent quite some time in court

Find out why.

The study of Sabrina

Sabrina in the modern press

Sabrina in recent books

Social Commentary on Sabrina

Sabrina University - academic interest in Sabrina

Sabrina's Live Cabaret Shows

• Chiswick Empire 1955
  
• French Capers - 1955
  
• This'll Make You Laugh - 1956
  
• Pleasures of Paris (London) 1957
  
• Pleasures of Paris (Australia) 1958-9
  
• Showgirls - 1961

Sabrina's songs . It's not a large discography, but it is a memorable one.

Sabrina's plays on stage . Legitimate theatre, darrrrrrling!

• Pajama Tops (1965-1966 in Baltimore and St Louis)
  
• The Loving Couch (1966)
  
• Rattle of a Simple Man (1966)

The Sabrina interviews - by phone, by me.

Also see In Touch with Sabrina - my contacts with Sabrina.

Sabrina references on radio (featuring steam-powered Goon Show references to Sabrina - where this site began!)

Sabrina was an object of fascination and unbridled lust to the Goons - especially author Spike Milligan. Uncover the cryptic references to Sabrina that have puzzled some younger listeners, and forced older listeners to call the nurse and draw the brown paper screens.

Who is this Mike Spilligan anyway?

Sabrina in the Newsreels - before TV news, the stars appeared before the feature film in the cinema.
And Sabrina was often there.

Sabrina's Short Films . When gentlemen's clubs needed to see Sabrina washing her hair, going to bed, or leaning over for no apparent reason.

Sabrina on TV - Before Your Very Eyes , and in America.

Sabrina's advertising was a powerful attractant to men whose trousers were bulging... with fat wallets.
Of particular importance is Sabrina's infamous Caltex ad - still popping fly buttons 50 years later.

(Senior Sabrinafans - please explain to youngsters what "fly buttons" were.)

Readers' Memories of Sabrina.

The knees may be older, and arthritic, but many still tremble with memories of Sabrina.

Odd things about Sabrina : some are very odd indeed

Did you date Sabrina? Yeah, yeah. Sure you did.
Anyway, these big names really dated Sabrina .

The Sabrina Hall of Fame
Join this pantheon of honoured contributors - earn a prestigious Sabrina Honour.

How to spot the real Sabrina - don't be distracted by second-best. Here are some ways to identify the real Sabrina.

No. That's not Sabrina.

Sabrina Collectibles . Genuine? Maybe, maybe not... OK. Probably not.

This one is real . An A3 sized nude Sabrina jigsaw - 300 pieces of black and white naked perfection.
You can buy one if you love Sabrina.

I realised I had no idea what sort of lingerie Sabrina was wearing in her thousands of photos.

So I started vital reaseach. What is a teddy?

See the Lingerie page .

You're welcome

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If you have found Sabrina stuff , I would be delighted if you contacted me . There are precious few undiscovered pictures still to be on the internet but I'm sure there are still a few knees trembling out there, especially in the UK, and those knee-owners may have a buried Sabrina treasure or two in the sock drawer. This is an international philanthropic enterprise, for the benefit of red-blooded males everywhere. Go on - the wife will never know.

Young men : go to your aged fathers and grandfathers and say, "Do you remember Sabrina?" If their eyes glaze over and they start drooling, let me know .
Personal recollections of Sabrina are valuable.

You! You were a knee-trembler of the Sabrina generation .
This is what you do: wait 'til the missus is out, and rummage through your secret stash of goodies you don't think she knows about.

There may just be a magazine, a photo, or a single hair of hers that you have treasured for more than half a century.
Or maybe there is a lovingly-drafted letter and poem that you always intended to send to Sabrina, but you never got around to finding the address or buy a stamp..
Perhaps you have one of these elusive goodies stashed away under your pyjamas?  If you find something, steady your trembling fingers and let me know .

Go to it, lads! Sabrina is the last great unexploded bombshell from the blonde and busty 1950s.
We cannot let her memory sink into the abyss of forgotten legends.
We owe it to our sons and grandsons!

(Wipes tear from eye.)

Can you support the Sabrina Site?

B.O.O.B.S.

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The golden keys beneath some of the images on this site are remnants of the " Best Of Our Beautiful Sabrina" scheme whereby special folk who contributed valuable Sabrinastuff could get privileged access to high-quality versions of pix and video.

The Elite BOOBS Society was for discerning and deserving gentlefolk only.
As of 22 Dec 2021, the VIP files section is closed.

But fear not: contributors of rare and wonderful Sabrinastuff can still get mega-sized pix or videos - such as Odysseas from Art & Hue who produced a wonderful Sabrina pop-art poster from a high-resolution image I sent him.

Thanks to all past B.O.O.B.S, members for your support.

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Conclusion

Thank you for visiting, and I hope some happy memories (and loins) have been stirred.

Many people have gone " corrrr - blimey - I remember those !" since the first Sabrina page was created at nylon.net on 16 June 2000 - only days ago.

Visit the original site from way back when, courtesy of archive.org.

None of the copyrighted pictures or text on this site may be used without permission.
Many pictures here are the copyrighted intellectual property of Sabrina (Norma Ann Sykes, Sabrina Melsheimer) or other contributors.
If you want to use this Sabrina Stuff, please read the conditions of use