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Norma Sykes D.Litt (Hon) is the voluptuous British lass who became Sabrina and accomplished above the hips what Elvis accomplished below.

She is 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.

"Do not dress like Sabrina," exhorted Dr Billy Graham in a 1959 sermon to 33,000 Australians.

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.

She's Our Sabrina.

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25 April 2012 - Cleaned out the 'New Pix' page and got around to posting the last of the unprocessed pix that have accumulated over the past uneventful year. Not a lot to do now. Mothballing is nearly finished, but I'll still happily accept contributions of Sabrinastuff.

27 Feb 2012 - After a flurry of activity last November, the flood of Sabrinastuff has again disappeared. I'm still hoping Sabrina will send another of her scrapbooks, but until then the site sits and twiddles its thumbs...

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Sabrina - Norma Ann Sykes - was the impossibly-proportioned darling of Britain, the cast of the Goon Show, and most discerning testosterone-enabled beings during the 1950s and 1960s.

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 17 inch waist? Or was she an unacknowledged promotional genius with a native sense of publicity that would make most agents weep with envy?

Please enjoy the phenomenon that was our Sabrina who - contrary to rumour - is alive, gorgeous, and fairly well in Hollywood, and in contact with the Sabrina Site!

Can YOU support the Sabrina Site?
For example, do you possess any of this elusive Sabrinastuff?

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Does anyone have a clip of Sabrina on the the Arthur Askey episode of This Is Your Life" from 1974?  Please get in touch!
The Life Story of Sabrina
Could there be a miniseries in this?

Photos- over 1,800 and counting...

Magazines - over 110 to enjoy.
A fascinating farrago of Fleet Street facts and fantasy. 
Read all of it; believe half of it.
Sabrina soapbox
Social Commentary on Sabrina
Sabrina in court

Sabrina in Court
Sabrina has spent some time in court - find out why.

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

Sabrina's songs. Not a large discography, but a memorable one. Sabrina sings the sexy blues on vinyl.

Sabrina's plays on stage. Legitimate theatre, darrrrrrling!
Sabrina in Books & Newspapers
London, Melbourne, Stockport!

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 screens.

Sabrina in the Newsreels - from the days 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!

Sabrina on TV - Before Your Very Eyes!
Sabrina sells Tuborg lager

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

Readers' Memories of Sabrina. The knees may be older, and arthritic, but many still tremble with memories of Sabrina. Some of these memories are publishable.
Odd things about Sabina: some are very odd indeed
Did you date Sabrina? (Yeah, yeah. Sure you did.).
Anyway, these big names really dated Sabrina.
The Elite BOOBS Society - Best Of Our Beautiful Sabrina - for discerning gentlefolk only

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

How to spot the real Sabrina - search tips

Sabrina Collectibles
Genuine? Maybe, maybe not...

What's New?
Site History - everything that has been done to this site, since like forever.
Sabrina's Birthday
International Sabrina Birthday Celebrations begin on 19 May

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Join the Best Of Our Beautiful Sabrina (B.O.O.B.S.) program to support the site. You get access to high-resolution, unwatermarked scans of unique Sabrinastuff for contributing a little money to help the Sabrina Fighting Fund. With photos fetching up to $158 each, the struggle is getting bigger every day.

I will continue to offer normal sized, screen-resolution watermarked scans on this site in keeping with the Sabrinasite policy of always remaining free to Sabrina Lovers. Donate a little, and get the Best Of Our Beautiful Sabrina.

If you help Support Sabrina, I guess you'd be a BRA - Brave Reliable Assistant. Hmm: am I taking this acronym thing a bit too far?

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Stage name: Sabrina (origins)
Real name: Norma Ann Sykes
Born: 19 May 1936 in Stockport, Cheshire, England.
She was not born in Blackpool or Wales in 1933 or 1938.
Measurements: 42½-18-36 (the "½" was vital). She did grow as time went on!
AKA:

"The Hunchfront of Lime Grove"
"The British Bosom"
"The Careless Cleavage"
"Britain's Jayne Mansfield"
"Britain's finest hourglass"
"England's Maid of the Mountains"
"Queen of the Big Top"
"The Juliet with the Built-in Balcony"
"The average Englishman's Goddess of Glamour."
"Poor photographer's model"
"British TV's first sex symbol"
"The Shape"
"La Busto" - Cuban Press

In the words of Raymond Chandler, Sabrina had curves “to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window”.

Career span: Working years: 1954-1969.
Golden years: 1955-1959
Talents:

Pinup star, TV celebrity, stage actress, singer, film and TV actor, cabaret and concert performer, self-publicity. Driving [MP3]. Cooking [MP3].

Current status: Alive, fairly well (with leg and back problems), and living in North Hollywood.

In
Search
Of
Sabrina

Stuff

 

If you have, or can help locate 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 sideboard. This is an international philanthropic enterprise, for the benefit of red-blooded males everywhere!

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 knee-tremblers of the Sabrina generation: 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, photo or love letter related to Sabrina. Perhaps you have one of these elusive goodies stashed away in your pyjama drawer?  If you find something, steady your trembling fingers and let me know.

(Puts "Land of Hope and Glory" on gramophone)

Go to it, lads! We cannot let the memory of Sabrina sink into the abyss of forgotten legends. We owe it to our sons and grandsons!

(Wipes tear from eye.)

And the final appeal is from Sabrina herself (in Mountains of the Moon)

Thank you - thank you all!

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Queen Sabrina
All hail Queen Sabrina!
(Click her to see her full size)

Where do Sabrina Fans come from?

 

No Greenland visitors yet - dammit! Come on Greenland. You're letting everyone down.

In
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.
It moved to
sabrinastuff.com on 1 Sept 2003.
Moved back to semi-retire at
nylon.net/sabrina on 12 April 2005

Back to full steam in 2008. It's strange how things go.

Visit the original site from way back when.

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