Sandra Storme

Sandra Storme (née 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).

The Right Honourable The Lady Churston
Born	Eileen Violet Needham (1914-12-22)22 December 1914 London, England
Died	1 December 1979(1979-12-01) (aged 64) Saint Andrew, Guernsey
Occupation	Actress
Spouses	Charles Wynne-Griffiths ​ ​ (died)​ Jack Dunfee ​ ​ (m. 1939; div. 1943)​ Richard Yarde-Buller, 4th Baron Churston ​ ​ (m. 1949)​
Children	David Wynne-Griffiths

Biography

She was born Eileen Violet Needham in London on 22 December 1914.^[1][a] 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][9] Storme met Lord Churston in 1948 when she was visiting his mother, the Duchess of Leinster.^[8]

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