Sunday Wilshin

Sunday Wilshin (1905–1991) was a British actress and radio producer; the successor to George Orwell on his resignation in 1943.^[1] She was born in London as Mary Aline Wilshin^[2] (corroborated by publicly-available birth records; other sources give Sunday/ Sundae Mary Aline Horne (-) Wilshin)^[3] and educated at the Italia Conti Stage School.^[4] Wilshin was a member of the 'Bright young things' of the 1920s, and a close friend of the actress Cyllene Moxon and of author (and former actress) Noel Streatfeild.^[5] In connection with the 'bright young things', Wilshin commonly appears in accounts of a gathering whereat she was assaulted by the silent film actress Brenda Dean Paul.^[6]

Selected filmography

• The Green Caravan (1922)
• Pages of Life (1922)
• Petticoat Loose (1922)
• Hutch Stirs 'em Up (1923)
• Champagne (1928)
• An Obvious Situation (1930)
• The Chance of a Night Time (1931)
• Michael and Mary (1931)
• Nine till Six (1932)
• The Love Contract (1932)
• Dance Pretty Lady (1932)
• Marry Me (1932)
• To Brighton with Gladys (1933)
• As Good as New (1933)
• Murder by Rope (1936)

References

1. All Propaganda is Lies, 1941-1942, George Orwell, Secker & Warburg, 2001, pg 9
2. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/117680
3. Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook, Lynn Kear and James King, McFarland & Company, 2009, pg 137
4. Noel Streatfeild: A Biography, Angela Bull, Collins, 1984, pg 82
5. https://elvirabarney.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/sunday-wilshin/
6. The Twenties, John Montgomery, 1957

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. The History of British Film. Volume VII. Routledge, 1997.
• Sutton, David R. A chorus of raspberries: British film comedy 1929-1939. University of Exeter Press, 2000.

External links

• Sunday Wilshin at the Internet Movie Database