Sunday Wilshin

Sunday Wilshin (26 February 1905 – 19 March 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]

Sunday Wilshin, by Bassano, vintage print, late 1932

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)
• Collision (1932)
• The Love Contract (1932)
• Dance Pretty Lady (1932)
• Marry Me (1932)
• To Brighton with Gladys (1933)
• As Good as New (1933)
• Borrowed Clothes (1934)
• Murder by Rope (1936)
• First Night (1937)