Sandra Storme Explained

Honorific Prefix:	The Right Honourable
The Lady Churston
Birthname:	Eileen Violet Needham
Birth Date:	22 December 1914
Birth Place:	London, England
Death Place:	Saint Andrew, Guernsey
Spouse:
Children:	David Wynne-Griffiths
Occupation:	Actress

Sandra Storme (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).

Biography

She was born Eileen Violet Needham in London on 22 December 1914.^[1] 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.

Personal life

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] Storme met Lord Churston in 1948 when she was visiting his mother, the Duchess of Leinster.^[9]

Lady Churston died at Woodcote in Saint Andrew, Guernsey on 1 December 1979.^{[10] [11]}

Filmography

• Artist and Models (1937) – Model
• Sophie Lang Goes West (1937) – Helga Roma^[12]
• A Spot of Bother (1938) – Sadie
• Murder in Soho (1939) – Ruby Lane
• Rope (1939 live television broadcast) – Leila Arden
• Q Planes (1939) – Daphne
• The Little Father of the Wilderness (1939 live television broadcast) – Mlle. Henriette

References

Notes

Sources

External links

• • Copy from the Ecclesiastical Court of the Bailiwick of Guernsey of the Will and Testament of Sandra Eileen Violet Needham, Lady Churston, widow of Charles Wynne-Griffiths and wife of Richard Francis Roger Yarde-Buller, Baron Churston, of Woodcote, Le Monnaie, St Andrew, Guernsey. Dated 08/09/1978.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sandra Storme . https://web.archive.org/web/20160404063732/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba5fc58fd . dead . 4 April 2016 . BFI . British Film Institute . 5 March 2022.
2. Bentley Boys (act. 1919–1931) . 2004 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/101179 . 978-0-19-861412-8 . 7 March 2022 . en.
3. Web site: "Miss Perfection" Alias Sandra Storme. English dancer and actress. . Superstock . Illustrated London News Ltd, 1937 / Mary Evans Picture Library . 5 March 2022.
4. Book: Morris . Susan . Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019 . 20 April 2020 . eBook Partnership . 978-1-9997670-5-1 . 7 March 2022 . en.
5. Book: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage . 1963 . Burke's Peerage Limited. . 502 . 7 March 2022 . en.
6. News: Snapshots of Hollywood collected at random . 7 March 2022 . . 3 October 1937 . 44.
7. News: PRODUCER MARRIES BRITISH FILM ACTRESS . 7 March 2022 . . 16 November 1939 . 5.
8. Web site: Sandra Storme Wedding . Getty Images . Hulton Archive . 5 March 2022.
9. News: SANDRA STORME WEDS. . 7 March 2022 . The East Kent Times and Mail . 6 April 1949 . 2.
10. Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 177.
11. News: CHURSTON . 7 March 2022 . . 5 December 1979 . 36.
12. News: TIMES . Special to THE NEW YORK . NEWS OF THE SCREEN; Ruby Keeler to Star in 'Love Below Freezing' for RKO-New Contract for Ritz Brothers . 7 March 2022 . . 29 September 1937.