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	~~{{Short description\|English model and actress (1936-2016)}}~~
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	{{Infobox person		{{Infobox person
	\| name = Sabrina		\| name = Sabrina
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	\| birth_name = Norma Ann Sykes		\| birth_name = Norma Ann Sykes
	\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|df=yes\|1936\|5\|19}}		\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|df=yes\|1936\|5\|19}}
	\| birth_place = [[w:Stockport\|Stockport]], England		\| birth_place = [[Stockport\|Stockport]], England
	\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|df=yes\|2016\|11\|24\|1936\|05\|19}}		\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|df=yes\|2016\|11\|24\|1936\|05\|19}}
	\| death_place = [[w:Los Angeles, California\|Los Angeles]], U.S.		\| death_place = [[Los Angeles, California\|Los Angeles]], U.S.
	\| other_names = Sabby		\| other_names = Sabby
	\| occupation = {{hlist\|Model\|actress\|singer}}		\| occupation = {{hlist\|Model\|actress\|singer}}
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	\| website = {{URL\|sabrina.nylon.net}}		\| website = {{URL\|sabrina.nylon.net}}
	}}		}}
	'''Norma Ann Sykes''' (19 May 1936 – 24 November 2016), better known as '''Sabrina''' or '''Sabby''', was a 1950s English [[w:glamour photography\|glamour model]] who progressed to a minor film career.<ref name=davenport-hines>{{cite book\|last=Davenport-Hines\|first=Richard\|title=An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo\|date=2012\|publisher=HarperCollins \|isbn=978-0-00-743586-9\|url=https://archive.org/details/englishaffairsex0000dave}}</ref>{{rp\|128}}<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/norma-sykes\|title=Norma Sykes Stock Photos and Pictures – Getty Images\|publisher=Getty Images\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>		'''Norma Ann Sykes''' (19 May 1936 – 24 November 2016), better known as '''Sabrina''' or '''Sabby''', was a 1950s English [[glamour photography\|glamour model]] who progressed to a minor film career.<ref name=davenport-hines>{{cite book\|last=Davenport-Hines\|first=Richard\|title=An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo\|date=2012\|publisher=HarperCollins \|isbn=978-0-00-743586-9\|url=https://archive.org/details/englishaffairsex0000dave}}</ref>{{rp\|128}}<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/norma-sykes\|title=Norma Sykes Stock Photos and Pictures – Getty Images\|publisher=Getty Images\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>

	Sabrina was one of "a host of exotic, glamorous (British) starlets ... modelled on the likes of [[w:Marilyn Monroe\|Marilyn Monroe]], [[w:Jayne Mansfield\|Jayne Mansfield]] and [[w:Lana Turner\|Lana Turner]]"; others included [[Diana Dors]], [[w:Belinda Lee\|Belinda Lee]], [[Shirley Eaton]] and [[Sandra Dorne]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Cook \|first=Pam \|chapter=The Trouble with Sex: Diana Dors and the Blonde Bombshell Phenomenon \|title=British Stars and Stardom \|year=2001 \|editor-last=Babington \|editor-first=Bruce \|publisher=Manchester University Press \|pages=167–178}}</ref>		Sabrina was one of "a host of exotic, glamorous (British) starlets ... modelled on the likes of [[Marilyn Monroe\|Marilyn Monroe]], [[Jayne Mansfield\|Jayne Mansfield]] and [[Lana Turner\|Lana Turner]]"; others included [[Diana Dors]], [[Belinda Lee\|Belinda Lee]], [[Shirley Eaton]] and [[Sandra Dorne]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Cook \|first=Pam \|chapter=The Trouble with Sex: Diana Dors and the Blonde Bombshell Phenomenon \|title=British Stars and Stardom \|year=2001 \|editor-last=Babington \|editor-first=Bruce \|publisher=Manchester University Press \|pages=167–178}}</ref>

	==Early life and career==		==Early life and career==
	Sabrina was born on 19 May 1936 at [[w:Stepping Hill Hospital\|Stepping Hill Hospital]] in [[w:Stockport\|Stockport]], Cheshire,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.famechain.com/family-tree/12444/dr-harold-melsheimer/sabrina\|title=Dr Harold Melsheimer & Sabrina Divorced, Joint Family Tree & History\|publisher=famechain.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> to Walter and Annie Sykes. She lived in Buckingham Street, Heaviley, for about 13 years and attended [[w:St George's Church, Heaviley\|St George's School]] there,<ref name="pathefilm.uk">{{cite web\|url=http://www.pathefilm.uk/95flmcat/95flmcatsab.htm\|title=WHO REMEMBERS SABRINA?\|last=Newnham\|first=Grahame L.\|publisher=Grahame N's Web Pages\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref><!-- Tyldesley High School, Tyldesley, Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom (Finished 1952); St. George's School, Buxton, Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; Tyldesley Road School, Tyldesley, Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom; Cale Green School, Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; Claremont Girls School, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom --> before moving with her mother to [[w:Blackpool\|Blackpool]].<ref>{{cite book\|url={{Google books\|P25uDQAAQBAJ\|plainurl=yes}}\|title=Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s\|first=Su\|last=Holmes\|date=1 November 2015\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=9781526101600\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> She spent some time in hospital with [[w:rheumatic fever\|rheumatic fever]]. At the age of 16, she moved to London,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.gwrjazz.com/content/page/media_guardian_14_01_06\|title=Road less travelled\|last=Day\|first=Jim\|publisher=Grahame Rhodes Jazz\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> where she worked as a waitress and did some nude modelling, posing for [[w:Russell Gay\|Russell Gay]]<ref>{{cite web \|title=Photographer Russell Gay\|url=https://pamela-green.com/russell-gay/ \|publisher=Pamela Green}}</ref> in a photoshoot that led to her appearance on the five of spades in a deck of nude [[w:playing cards\|playing cards]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://nylon.net/sabrina/pages/nude-cards.htm\|title=The Sabrina Naughty Nudie Cards\|publisher=Encyclopedia Sabrina\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>		Sabrina was born on 19 May 1936 at [[Stepping Hill Hospital\|Stepping Hill Hospital]] in [[Stockport\|Stockport]], Cheshire,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.famechain.com/family-tree/12444/dr-harold-melsheimer/sabrina\|title=Dr Harold Melsheimer & Sabrina Divorced, Joint Family Tree & History\|publisher=famechain.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> to Walter and Annie Sykes. She lived in Buckingham Street, Heaviley, for about 13 years and attended [[St George's Church, Heaviley\|St George's School]] there,<ref name="pathefilm.uk">{{cite web\|url=http://www.pathefilm.uk/95flmcat/95flmcatsab.htm\|title=WHO REMEMBERS SABRINA?\|last=Newnham\|first=Grahame L.\|publisher=Grahame N's Web Pages\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref><!-- Tyldesley High School, Tyldesley, Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom (Finished 1952); St. George's School, Buxton, Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; Tyldesley Road School, Tyldesley, Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom; Cale Green School, Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; Claremont Girls School, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom --> before moving with her mother to [[Blackpool\|Blackpool]].<ref>{{cite book\|url={{Google books\|P25uDQAAQBAJ\|plainurl=yes}}\|title=Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s\|first=Su\|last=Holmes\|date=1 November 2015\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=9781526101600\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> She spent some time in hospital with [[rheumatic fever\|rheumatic fever]]. At the age of 16, she moved to London,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.gwrjazz.com/content/page/media_guardian_14_01_06\|title=Road less travelled\|last=Day\|first=Jim\|publisher=Grahame Rhodes Jazz\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> where she worked as a waitress and did some nude modelling, posing for [[Russell Gay\|Russell Gay]]<ref>{{cite web \|title=Photographer Russell Gay\|url=https://pamela-green.com/russell-gay/ \|publisher=Pamela Green}}</ref> in a photoshoot that led to her appearance on the five of spades in a deck of nude [[playing cards\|playing cards]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://nylon.net/sabrina/pages/nude-cards.htm\|title=The Sabrina Naughty Nudie Cards\|publisher=Encyclopedia Sabrina\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>

	In 1955, she was chosen to play a [[w:dumb blonde\|dumb blonde]] in [[Arthur Askey]]'s new television series ''Before Your Very Eyes'' ([[w:BBC\|BBC]] 1952–56, [[ITV (UK network)\|ITV]] 1956–58). The show ran from 18 February 1955 to 20 April 1956, and made Sabrina a household name.<ref name=davenport-hines/>{{rp\|128}} She was promoted by the BBC as "the bosomy blonde who didn't talk", but surviving [[w:kinescope\|kinescope]] episodes show quite clearly that she did.<ref>{{cite book \|last=Holmes \|first=Su \|title=Whoever Heard of Anyone Being a Screaming Success for Doing Nothing? \|journal=Media History \|year=2011 \|volume=17 \|issue=1 \|pages=33–48 \|doi=10.1080/13688804.2011.532376\|s2cid=54762761 \|url=https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40280/1/Media_History_17-1_2011.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|url={{Google books\|m0q7UMRzIQQC\|plainurl=yes}}\|title=Family Britain, 1951–1957\|first=David\|last=Kynaston\|authorlink = David Kynaston\|date=2 November 2009\|publisher=A&C Black\|isbn=9781408803493\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.art.com/products/p41884613827-sa-i10061903/ken-russell-sabrina-the-blackpool-celebrity-1956.htm\|title=Sabrina, the Blackpool Celebrity - 1956 Premium Photographic Print by Ken Russell at Art.com\|publisher=art.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2017-01-30\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130095104/https://www.art.com/products/p41884613827-sa-i10061903/ken-russell-sabrina-the-blackpool-celebrity-1956.htm}}{{better source needed\|date=August 2022}}</ref>		In 1955, she was chosen to play a [[dumb blonde\|dumb blonde]] in [[Arthur Askey]]'s new television series ''Before Your Very Eyes'' ([[BBC\|BBC]] 1952–56, [[ITV (UK network)\|ITV]] 1956–58). The show ran from 18 February 1955 to 20 April 1956, and made Sabrina a household name.<ref name=davenport-hines/>{{rp\|128}} She was promoted by the BBC as "the bosomy blonde who didn't talk", but surviving [[kinescope\|kinescope]] episodes show quite clearly that she did.<ref>{{cite book \|last=Holmes \|first=Su \|title=Whoever Heard of Anyone Being a Screaming Success for Doing Nothing? \|journal=Media History \|year=2011 \|volume=17 \|issue=1 \|pages=33–48 \|doi=10.1080/13688804.2011.532376\|s2cid=54762761 \|url=https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40280/1/Media_History_17-1_2011.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|url={{Google books\|m0q7UMRzIQQC\|plainurl=yes}}\|title=Family Britain, 1951–1957\|first=David\|last=Kynaston\|authorlink = David Kynaston\|date=2 November 2009\|publisher=A&C Black\|isbn=9781408803493\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.art.com/products/p41884613827-sa-i10061903/ken-russell-sabrina-the-blackpool-celebrity-1956.htm\|title=Sabrina, the Blackpool Celebrity - 1956 Premium Photographic Print by Ken Russell at Art.com\|publisher=art.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2017-01-30\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130095104/https://www.art.com/products/p41884613827-sa-i10061903/ken-russell-sabrina-the-blackpool-celebrity-1956.htm}}{{better source needed\|date=August 2022}}</ref>

	James Beney, of Walton Films, released a 100-foot 9.5 mm short glamour film "At Home With Sabrina" around July 1955.<ref name="pathefilm.uk"/><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://dcairns.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/\|title=02 – May – 2009 – shadowplay\|publisher=wordpress.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017\|url-status=dead}}{{dead link\|date=August 2022}}</ref>		James Beney, of Walton Films, released a 100-foot 9.5 mm short glamour film "At Home With Sabrina" around July 1955.<ref name="pathefilm.uk"/><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://dcairns.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/\|title=02 – May – 2009 – shadowplay\|publisher=wordpress.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017\|url-status=dead}}{{dead link\|date=August 2022}}</ref>

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	* [https://www.aenigma-images.com/2016/02/sabrina/ Sabrina] at [https://www.aenigma-images.com/ aenigma]		* [https://www.aenigma-images.com/2016/02/sabrina/ Sabrina] at [https://www.aenigma-images.com/ aenigma]
	* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071204164156/http://tldynamic.leeds.ac.uk/leedsyorkshire/honorary/honorary_graduates_1950.asp 1959 award of D.Litt. (Hon)]		* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071204164156/http://tldynamic.leeds.ac.uk/leedsyorkshire/honorary/honorary_graduates_1950.asp 1959 award of D.Litt. (Hon)]

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	==Cultural depictions==		==Cultural depictions==
	~~{{in popular culture\|date=July 2018}}~~
	The scripts of ''[[The Goon Show]]'' are littered with references to Sabrina's bosom, such as "By the measurements of Sabrina!" and "By the sweaters of Sabrina!"<ref name="Goons">{{cite web \|title=Sabrina Sounds \|url=http://nylon.net/sabrina/pages/sabrinasounds.htm \|publisher=The Encyclopaedia Sabrina \|accessdate=18 October 2013}}</ref>		The scripts of ''[[The Goon Show]]'' are littered with references to Sabrina's bosom, such as "By the measurements of Sabrina!" and "By the sweaters of Sabrina!"<ref name="Goons">{{cite web \|title=Sabrina Sounds \|url=http://nylon.net/sabrina/pages/sabrinasounds.htm \|publisher=The Encyclopaedia Sabrina \|accessdate=18 October 2013}}</ref>

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	Sabrina was born on 19 May 1936 at [[w:Stepping Hill Hospital\|Stepping Hill Hospital]] in [[w:Stockport\|Stockport]], Cheshire,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.famechain.com/family-tree/12444/dr-harold-melsheimer/sabrina\|title=Dr Harold Melsheimer & Sabrina Divorced, Joint Family Tree & History\|publisher=famechain.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> to Walter and Annie Sykes. She lived in Buckingham Street, Heaviley, for about 13 years and attended [[w:St George's Church, Heaviley\|St George's School]] there,<ref name="pathefilm.uk">{{cite web\|url=http://www.pathefilm.uk/95flmcat/95flmcatsab.htm\|title=WHO REMEMBERS SABRINA?\|last=Newnham\|first=Grahame L.\|publisher=Grahame N's Web Pages\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref><!-- Tyldesley High School, Tyldesley, Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom (Finished 1952); St. George's School, Buxton, Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; Tyldesley Road School, Tyldesley, Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom; Cale Green School, Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; Claremont Girls School, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom --> before moving with her mother to [[w:Blackpool\|Blackpool]].<ref>{{cite book\|url={{Google books\|P25uDQAAQBAJ\|plainurl=yes}}\|title=Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s\|first=Su\|last=Holmes\|date=1 November 2015\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=9781526101600\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> She spent some time in hospital with [[w:rheumatic fever\|rheumatic fever]]. At the age of 16, she moved to London,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.gwrjazz.com/content/page/media_guardian_14_01_06\|title=Road less travelled\|last=Day\|first=Jim\|publisher=Grahame Rhodes Jazz\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> where she worked as a waitress and did some nude modelling, posing for [[w:Russell Gay\|Russell Gay]]<ref>{{cite web \|title=Photographer Russell Gay\|url=https://pamela-green.com/russell-gay/ \|publisher=Pamela Green}}</ref> in a photoshoot that led to her appearance on the five of spades in a deck of nude [[w:playing cards\|playing cards]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://nylon.net/sabrina/pages/nude-cards.htm\|title=The Sabrina Naughty Nudie Cards\|publisher=Encyclopedia Sabrina\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>		Sabrina was born on 19 May 1936 at [[w:Stepping Hill Hospital\|Stepping Hill Hospital]] in [[w:Stockport\|Stockport]], Cheshire,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.famechain.com/family-tree/12444/dr-harold-melsheimer/sabrina\|title=Dr Harold Melsheimer & Sabrina Divorced, Joint Family Tree & History\|publisher=famechain.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> to Walter and Annie Sykes. She lived in Buckingham Street, Heaviley, for about 13 years and attended [[w:St George's Church, Heaviley\|St George's School]] there,<ref name="pathefilm.uk">{{cite web\|url=http://www.pathefilm.uk/95flmcat/95flmcatsab.htm\|title=WHO REMEMBERS SABRINA?\|last=Newnham\|first=Grahame L.\|publisher=Grahame N's Web Pages\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref><!-- Tyldesley High School, Tyldesley, Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom (Finished 1952); St. George's School, Buxton, Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; Tyldesley Road School, Tyldesley, Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom; Cale Green School, Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; Claremont Girls School, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom --> before moving with her mother to [[w:Blackpool\|Blackpool]].<ref>{{cite book\|url={{Google books\|P25uDQAAQBAJ\|plainurl=yes}}\|title=Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s\|first=Su\|last=Holmes\|date=1 November 2015\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=9781526101600\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> She spent some time in hospital with [[w:rheumatic fever\|rheumatic fever]]. At the age of 16, she moved to London,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.gwrjazz.com/content/page/media_guardian_14_01_06\|title=Road less travelled\|last=Day\|first=Jim\|publisher=Grahame Rhodes Jazz\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> where she worked as a waitress and did some nude modelling, posing for [[w:Russell Gay\|Russell Gay]]<ref>{{cite web \|title=Photographer Russell Gay\|url=https://pamela-green.com/russell-gay/ \|publisher=Pamela Green}}</ref> in a photoshoot that led to her appearance on the five of spades in a deck of nude [[w:playing cards\|playing cards]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://nylon.net/sabrina/pages/nude-cards.htm\|title=The Sabrina Naughty Nudie Cards\|publisher=Encyclopedia Sabrina\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>

	In 1955, she was chosen to play a [[w:dumb blonde\|dumb blonde]] in [[Arthur Askey]]'s new television series ''Before Your Very Eyes'' ([[w:BBC\|BBC]] 1952–56, [[ITV (UK network)\|ITV]] 1956–58). The show ran from 18 February 1955 to 20 April 1956, and made Sabrina a household name.<ref name=davenport-hines/>{{rp\|128}} She was promoted by the BBC as "the bosomy blonde who didn't talk", but surviving [[kinescope]] episodes show quite clearly that she did.<ref>{{cite book \|last=Holmes \|first=Su \|title=Whoever Heard of Anyone Being a Screaming Success for Doing Nothing? \|journal=Media History \|year=2011 \|volume=17 \|issue=1 \|pages=33–48 \|doi=10.1080/13688804.2011.532376\|s2cid=54762761 \|url=https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40280/1/Media_History_17-1_2011.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|url={{Google books\|m0q7UMRzIQQC\|plainurl=yes}}\|title=Family Britain, 1951–1957\|first=David\|last=Kynaston\|authorlink = David Kynaston\|date=2 November 2009\|publisher=A&C Black\|isbn=9781408803493\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.art.com/products/p41884613827-sa-i10061903/ken-russell-sabrina-the-blackpool-celebrity-1956.htm\|title=Sabrina, the Blackpool Celebrity - 1956 Premium Photographic Print by Ken Russell at Art.com\|publisher=art.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2017-01-30\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130095104/https://www.art.com/products/p41884613827-sa-i10061903/ken-russell-sabrina-the-blackpool-celebrity-1956.htm}}{{better source needed\|date=August 2022}}</ref>		In 1955, she was chosen to play a [[w:dumb blonde\|dumb blonde]] in [[Arthur Askey]]'s new television series ''Before Your Very Eyes'' ([[w:BBC\|BBC]] 1952–56, [[ITV (UK network)\|ITV]] 1956–58). The show ran from 18 February 1955 to 20 April 1956, and made Sabrina a household name.<ref name=davenport-hines/>{{rp\|128}} She was promoted by the BBC as "the bosomy blonde who didn't talk", but surviving [[w:kinescope\|kinescope]] episodes show quite clearly that she did.<ref>{{cite book \|last=Holmes \|first=Su \|title=Whoever Heard of Anyone Being a Screaming Success for Doing Nothing? \|journal=Media History \|year=2011 \|volume=17 \|issue=1 \|pages=33–48 \|doi=10.1080/13688804.2011.532376\|s2cid=54762761 \|url=https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40280/1/Media_History_17-1_2011.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|url={{Google books\|m0q7UMRzIQQC\|plainurl=yes}}\|title=Family Britain, 1951–1957\|first=David\|last=Kynaston\|authorlink = David Kynaston\|date=2 November 2009\|publisher=A&C Black\|isbn=9781408803493\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.art.com/products/p41884613827-sa-i10061903/ken-russell-sabrina-the-blackpool-celebrity-1956.htm\|title=Sabrina, the Blackpool Celebrity - 1956 Premium Photographic Print by Ken Russell at Art.com\|publisher=art.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2017-01-30\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130095104/https://www.art.com/products/p41884613827-sa-i10061903/ken-russell-sabrina-the-blackpool-celebrity-1956.htm}}{{better source needed\|date=August 2022}}</ref>

	James Beney, of Walton Films, released a 100-foot 9.5 mm short glamour film "At Home With Sabrina" around July 1955.<ref name="pathefilm.uk"/><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://dcairns.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/\|title=02 – May – 2009 – shadowplay\|publisher=wordpress.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017\|url-status=dead}}{{dead link\|date=August 2022}}</ref>~~{{better source needed\|date=August 2022\|reason=wordpress is considered unreliable under wikipedia best practice}}~~		James Beney, of Walton Films, released a 100-foot 9.5 mm short glamour film "At Home With Sabrina" around July 1955.<ref name="pathefilm.uk"/><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://dcairns.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/\|title=02 – May – 2009 – shadowplay\|publisher=wordpress.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017\|url-status=dead}}{{dead link\|date=August 2022}}</ref>

	''Goodnight with Sabrina'' (c.1958, 3:49 mins) is included with ''[[Beat Girl]]'', in 2016, newly remastered by ''BFI Flipside''<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-press-release-flipside-presents-beat-girl-2016-03-31.pdf \|title=Beat Girl\|publisher=British Film Institute\|access-date=2022-08-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_71/beat_girl_blu-ray.htm\|title=Beat Girl Blu-ray – Edmond T. Gréville\|publisher=DVD Beaver\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|title=SHE NEARLY CAUSED RIOT\|publisher=Mirror\|location=Perth, Washington, USA\|date=1955-11-19\|page=3\|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75998073}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.brightonsavoy.com.au/the-day-sabrina-arrived-at-the-savoy/\|title=The day Sabrina arrived at the Savoy\|date=n.d.\|publisher=Brighton Savoy\|access-date=2022-08-20}}</ref>		''Goodnight with Sabrina'' (c.1958, 3:49 mins) is included with ''[[Beat Girl]]'', in 2016, newly remastered by ''BFI Flipside''<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-press-release-flipside-presents-beat-girl-2016-03-31.pdf \|title=Beat Girl\|publisher=British Film Institute\|access-date=2022-08-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_71/beat_girl_blu-ray.htm\|title=Beat Girl Blu-ray – Edmond T. Gréville\|publisher=DVD Beaver\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|title=SHE NEARLY CAUSED RIOT\|publisher=Mirror\|location=Perth, Washington, USA\|date=1955-11-19\|page=3\|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75998073}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.brightonsavoy.com.au/the-day-sabrina-arrived-at-the-savoy/\|title=The day Sabrina arrived at the Savoy\|date=n.d.\|publisher=Brighton Savoy\|access-date=2022-08-20}}</ref>

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	'''Norma Ann Sykes''' (19 May 1936 – 24 November 2016), better known as '''Sabrina''' or '''Sabby''', was a 1950s English [[glamour photography\|glamour model]] who progressed to a minor film career.<ref name=davenport-hines>{{cite book\|last=Davenport-Hines\|first=Richard\|title=An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo\|date=2012\|publisher=HarperCollins \|isbn=978-0-00-743586-9\|url=https://archive.org/details/englishaffairsex0000dave}}</ref>{{rp\|128}}<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/norma-sykes\|title=Norma Sykes Stock Photos and Pictures – Getty Images\|publisher=Getty Images\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>		'''Norma Ann Sykes''' (19 May 1936 – 24 November 2016), better known as '''Sabrina''' or '''Sabby''', was a 1950s English [[w:glamour photography\|glamour model]] who progressed to a minor film career.<ref name=davenport-hines>{{cite book\|last=Davenport-Hines\|first=Richard\|title=An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo\|date=2012\|publisher=HarperCollins \|isbn=978-0-00-743586-9\|url=https://archive.org/details/englishaffairsex0000dave}}</ref>{{rp\|128}}<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/norma-sykes\|title=Norma Sykes Stock Photos and Pictures – Getty Images\|publisher=Getty Images\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>

	Sabrina was one of "a host of exotic, glamorous (British) starlets ... modelled on the likes of [[Marilyn Monroe]], [[Jayne Mansfield]] and [[Lana Turner]]"; others included [[Diana Dors]], [[Belinda Lee]], [[Shirley Eaton]] and [[Sandra Dorne]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Cook \|first=Pam \|chapter=The Trouble with Sex: Diana Dors and the Blonde Bombshell Phenomenon \|title=British Stars and Stardom \|year=2001 \|editor-last=Babington \|editor-first=Bruce \|publisher=Manchester University Press \|pages=167–178}}</ref>		Sabrina was one of "a host of exotic, glamorous (British) starlets ... modelled on the likes of [[w:Marilyn Monroe\|Marilyn Monroe]], [[w:Jayne Mansfield\|Jayne Mansfield]] and [[w:Lana Turner\|Lana Turner]]"; others included [[Diana Dors]], [[w:Belinda Lee\|Belinda Lee]], [[Shirley Eaton]] and [[Sandra Dorne]].<ref>{{cite book\|last=Cook \|first=Pam \|chapter=The Trouble with Sex: Diana Dors and the Blonde Bombshell Phenomenon \|title=British Stars and Stardom \|year=2001 \|editor-last=Babington \|editor-first=Bruce \|publisher=Manchester University Press \|pages=167–178}}</ref>

	==Early life and career==		==Early life and career==
	Sabrina was born on 19 May 1936 at [[Stepping Hill Hospital]] in [[Stockport]], Cheshire,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.famechain.com/family-tree/12444/dr-harold-melsheimer/sabrina\|title=Dr Harold Melsheimer & Sabrina Divorced, Joint Family Tree & History\|publisher=famechain.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref>~~{{unreliable source?\|date=August 2022}}~~ to Walter and Annie Sykes. She lived in Buckingham Street, Heaviley, for about 13 years and attended [[St George's Church, Heaviley\|St George's School]] there,<ref name="pathefilm.uk">{{cite web\|url=http://www.pathefilm.uk/95flmcat/95flmcatsab.htm\|title=WHO REMEMBERS SABRINA?\|last=Newnham\|first=Grahame L.\|publisher=Grahame N's Web Pages\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>~~{{unreliable source?\|date=August 2022}}~~<!-- Tyldesley High School, Tyldesley, Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom (Finished 1952); St. George's School, Buxton, Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; Tyldesley Road School, Tyldesley, Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom; Cale Green School, Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; Claremont Girls School, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom --> before moving with her mother to [[Blackpool]].<ref>{{cite book\|url={{Google books\|P25uDQAAQBAJ\|plainurl=yes}}\|title=Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s\|first=Su\|last=Holmes\|date=1 November 2015\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=9781526101600\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> She spent some time in hospital with [[rheumatic fever]]. At the age of 16, she moved to London,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.gwrjazz.com/content/page/media_guardian_14_01_06\|title=Road less travelled\|last=Day\|first=Jim\|publisher=Grahame Rhodes Jazz\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> where she worked as a waitress and did some nude modelling, posing for [[Russell Gay]]<ref>{{cite web \|title=Photographer Russell Gay\|url=https://pamela-green.com/russell-gay/ \|publisher=Pamela Green}}</ref> in a photoshoot that led to her appearance on the five of spades in a deck of nude [[playing cards]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://nylon.net/sabrina/pages/nude-cards.htm\|title=The Sabrina Naughty Nudie Cards\|publisher=Encyclopedia Sabrina\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>		Sabrina was born on 19 May 1936 at [[w:Stepping Hill Hospital\|Stepping Hill Hospital]] in [[w:Stockport\|Stockport]], Cheshire,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.famechain.com/family-tree/12444/dr-harold-melsheimer/sabrina\|title=Dr Harold Melsheimer & Sabrina Divorced, Joint Family Tree & History\|publisher=famechain.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> to Walter and Annie Sykes. She lived in Buckingham Street, Heaviley, for about 13 years and attended [[w:St George's Church, Heaviley\|St George's School]] there,<ref name="pathefilm.uk">{{cite web\|url=http://www.pathefilm.uk/95flmcat/95flmcatsab.htm\|title=WHO REMEMBERS SABRINA?\|last=Newnham\|first=Grahame L.\|publisher=Grahame N's Web Pages\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref><!-- Tyldesley High School, Tyldesley, Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom (Finished 1952); St. George's School, Buxton, Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; Tyldesley Road School, Tyldesley, Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom; Cale Green School, Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom; Claremont Girls School, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom --> before moving with her mother to [[w:Blackpool\|Blackpool]].<ref>{{cite book\|url={{Google books\|P25uDQAAQBAJ\|plainurl=yes}}\|title=Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s\|first=Su\|last=Holmes\|date=1 November 2015\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|isbn=9781526101600\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> She spent some time in hospital with [[w:rheumatic fever\|rheumatic fever]]. At the age of 16, she moved to London,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.gwrjazz.com/content/page/media_guardian_14_01_06\|title=Road less travelled\|last=Day\|first=Jim\|publisher=Grahame Rhodes Jazz\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> where she worked as a waitress and did some nude modelling, posing for [[w:Russell Gay\|Russell Gay]]<ref>{{cite web \|title=Photographer Russell Gay\|url=https://pamela-green.com/russell-gay/ \|publisher=Pamela Green}}</ref> in a photoshoot that led to her appearance on the five of spades in a deck of nude [[w:playing cards\|playing cards]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://nylon.net/sabrina/pages/nude-cards.htm\|title=The Sabrina Naughty Nudie Cards\|publisher=Encyclopedia Sabrina\|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>

	In 1955, she was chosen to play a [[dumb blonde]] in [[Arthur Askey]]'s new television series ''Before Your Very Eyes'' ([[BBC]] 1952–56, [[ITV (UK network)\|ITV]] 1956–58). The show ran from 18 February 1955 to 20 April 1956, and made Sabrina a household name.<ref name=davenport-hines/>{{rp\|128}} She was promoted by the BBC as "the bosomy blonde who didn't talk", but surviving [[kinescope]] episodes show quite clearly that she did.<ref>{{cite book \|last=Holmes \|first=Su \|title=Whoever Heard of Anyone Being a Screaming Success for Doing Nothing? \|journal=Media History \|year=2011 \|volume=17 \|issue=1 \|pages=33–48 \|doi=10.1080/13688804.2011.532376\|s2cid=54762761 \|url=https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40280/1/Media_History_17-1_2011.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|url={{Google books\|m0q7UMRzIQQC\|plainurl=yes}}\|title=Family Britain, 1951–1957\|first=David\|last=Kynaston\|authorlink = David Kynaston\|date=2 November 2009\|publisher=A&C Black\|isbn=9781408803493\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.art.com/products/p41884613827-sa-i10061903/ken-russell-sabrina-the-blackpool-celebrity-1956.htm\|title=Sabrina, the Blackpool Celebrity - 1956 Premium Photographic Print by Ken Russell at Art.com\|publisher=art.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2017-01-30\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130095104/https://www.art.com/products/p41884613827-sa-i10061903/ken-russell-sabrina-the-blackpool-celebrity-1956.htm}}{{better source needed\|date=August 2022}}</ref>		In 1955, she was chosen to play a [[w:dumb blonde\|dumb blonde]] in [[Arthur Askey]]'s new television series ''Before Your Very Eyes'' ([[w:BBC\|BBC]] 1952–56, [[ITV (UK network)\|ITV]] 1956–58). The show ran from 18 February 1955 to 20 April 1956, and made Sabrina a household name.<ref name=davenport-hines/>{{rp\|128}} She was promoted by the BBC as "the bosomy blonde who didn't talk", but surviving [[kinescope]] episodes show quite clearly that she did.<ref>{{cite book \|last=Holmes \|first=Su \|title=Whoever Heard of Anyone Being a Screaming Success for Doing Nothing? \|journal=Media History \|year=2011 \|volume=17 \|issue=1 \|pages=33–48 \|doi=10.1080/13688804.2011.532376\|s2cid=54762761 \|url=https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40280/1/Media_History_17-1_2011.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|url={{Google books\|m0q7UMRzIQQC\|plainurl=yes}}\|title=Family Britain, 1951–1957\|first=David\|last=Kynaston\|authorlink = David Kynaston\|date=2 November 2009\|publisher=A&C Black\|isbn=9781408803493\|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.art.com/products/p41884613827-sa-i10061903/ken-russell-sabrina-the-blackpool-celebrity-1956.htm\|title=Sabrina, the Blackpool Celebrity - 1956 Premium Photographic Print by Ken Russell at Art.com\|publisher=art.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=2017-01-30\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130095104/https://www.art.com/products/p41884613827-sa-i10061903/ken-russell-sabrina-the-blackpool-celebrity-1956.htm}}{{better source needed\|date=August 2022}}</ref>

	James Beney, of Walton Films, released a 100-foot 9.5 mm short glamour film "At Home With Sabrina" around July 1955.<ref name="pathefilm.uk"/><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://dcairns.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/\|title=02 – May – 2009 – shadowplay\|publisher=wordpress.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017\|url-status=dead}}{{dead link\|date=August 2022}}</ref>{{better source needed\|date=August 2022\|reason=wordpress is considered unreliable under wikipedia best practice}}		James Beney, of Walton Films, released a 100-foot 9.5 mm short glamour film "At Home With Sabrina" around July 1955.<ref name="pathefilm.uk"/><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://dcairns.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/\|title=02 – May – 2009 – shadowplay\|publisher=wordpress.com\|accessdate=30 January 2017\|url-status=dead}}{{dead link\|date=August 2022}}</ref>{{better source needed\|date=August 2022\|reason=wordpress is considered unreliable under wikipedia best practice}}

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'''Norma Ann Sykes''' (19 May 1936 – 24 November 2016), better known as '''Sabrina''' or '''Sabby''', was a 1950s English [[glamour photography|glamour model]] who progressed to a minor film career.<ref name=davenport-hines>{{cite book|last=Davenport-Hines|first=Richard|title=An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo|date=2012|publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-00-743586-9|url=https://archive.org/details/englishaffairsex0000dave}}</ref>{{rp|128}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/norma-sykes|title=Norma Sykes Stock Photos and Pictures – Getty Images|publisher=Getty Images|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>

Sabrina was one of "a host of exotic, glamorous (British) starlets ... modelled on the likes of [[Marilyn Monroe]], [[Jayne Mansfield]] and [[Lana Turner]]"; others included [[Diana Dors]], [[Belinda Lee]], [[Shirley Eaton]] and [[Sandra Dorne]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Cook |first=Pam |chapter=The Trouble with Sex: Diana Dors and the Blonde Bombshell Phenomenon |title=British Stars and Stardom |year=2001 |editor-last=Babington |editor-first=Bruce |publisher=Manchester University Press |pages=167–178}}</ref>

==Early life and career==
Sabrina was born on 19 May 1936 at [[Stepping Hill Hospital]] in [[Stockport]], Cheshire,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.famechain.com/family-tree/12444/dr-harold-melsheimer/sabrina|title=Dr Harold Melsheimer & Sabrina Divorced, Joint Family Tree & History|publisher=famechain.com|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=August 2022}} to Walter and Annie Sykes. She lived in Buckingham Street, Heaviley, for about 13 years and attended [[St George's Church, Heaviley|St George's School]] there,<ref name="pathefilm.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.pathefilm.uk/95flmcat/95flmcatsab.htm|title=WHO REMEMBERS SABRINA?|last=Newnham|first=Grahame L.|publisher=Grahame N's Web Pages|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=August 2022}} before moving with her mother to [[Blackpool]].<ref>{{cite book|url={{Google books|P25uDQAAQBAJ|plainurl=yes}}|title=Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s|first=Su|last=Holmes|date=1 November 2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9781526101600|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> She spent some time in hospital with [[rheumatic fever]]. At the age of 16, she moved to London,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gwrjazz.com/content/page/media_guardian_14_01_06|title=Road less travelled|last=Day|first=Jim|publisher=Grahame Rhodes Jazz|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> where she worked as a waitress and did some nude modelling, posing for [[Russell Gay]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Photographer Russell Gay|url=https://pamela-green.com/russell-gay/ |publisher=Pamela Green}}</ref> in a photoshoot that led to her appearance on the five of spades in a deck of nude [[playing cards]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nylon.net/sabrina/pages/nude-cards.htm|title=The Sabrina Naughty Nudie Cards|publisher=Encyclopedia Sabrina|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>

In 1955, she was chosen to play a [[dumb blonde]] in [[Arthur Askey]]'s new television series ''Before Your Very Eyes'' ([[BBC]] 1952–56, [[ITV (UK network)|ITV]] 1956–58). The show ran from 18 February 1955 to 20 April 1956, and made Sabrina a household name.<ref name=davenport-hines/>{{rp|128}} She was promoted by the BBC as "the bosomy blonde who didn't talk", but surviving [[kinescope]] episodes show quite clearly that she did.<ref>{{cite book |last=Holmes |first=Su |title=Whoever Heard of Anyone Being a Screaming Success for Doing Nothing? |journal=Media History |year=2011 |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=33–48 |doi=10.1080/13688804.2011.532376|s2cid=54762761 |url=https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40280/1/Media_History_17-1_2011.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url={{Google books|m0q7UMRzIQQC|plainurl=yes}}|title=Family Britain, 1951–1957|first=David|last=Kynaston|authorlink = David Kynaston|date=2 November 2009|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=9781408803493|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.art.com/products/p41884613827-sa-i10061903/ken-russell-sabrina-the-blackpool-celebrity-1956.htm|title=Sabrina, the Blackpool Celebrity - 1956 Premium Photographic Print by Ken Russell at Art.com|publisher=art.com|accessdate=30 January 2017|url-status=dead|archive-date=2017-01-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130095104/https://www.art.com/products/p41884613827-sa-i10061903/ken-russell-sabrina-the-blackpool-celebrity-1956.htm}}{{better source needed|date=August 2022}}</ref>

James Beney, of Walton Films, released a 100-foot 9.5 mm short glamour film "At Home With Sabrina" around July 1955.<ref name="pathefilm.uk"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://dcairns.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/|title=02 – May – 2009 – shadowplay|publisher=wordpress.com|accessdate=30 January 2017|url-status=dead}}{{dead link|date=August 2022}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=August 2022|reason=wordpress is considered unreliable under wikipedia best practice}}

''Goodnight with Sabrina'' (c.1958, 3:49 mins) is included with ''[[Beat Girl]]'', in 2016, newly remastered by ''BFI Flipside''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-press-release-flipside-presents-beat-girl-2016-03-31.pdf |title=Beat Girl|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=2022-08-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_71/beat_girl_blu-ray.htm|title=Beat Girl Blu-ray – Edmond T. Gréville|publisher=DVD Beaver|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=SHE NEARLY CAUSED RIOT|publisher=Mirror|location=Perth, Washington, USA|date=1955-11-19|page=3|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75998073}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.brightonsavoy.com.au/the-day-sabrina-arrived-at-the-savoy/|title=The day Sabrina arrived at the Savoy|date=n.d.|publisher=Brighton Savoy|access-date=2022-08-20}}</ref>

She made her film debut as Trixie in ''[[Stock Car (film)|Stock Car]],'' a [[Wolf Rilla]]-directed drama, in 1955. She then appeared in a small role in the 1956 film ''[[Ramsbottom Rides Again]]''.<ref>{{cite book|url={{Google book|xGN6BAAAQBAJ|plainurl=yes}}|title=Rose Heilbron: Legal Pioneer of the 20th Century: Inspiring Advocate who Became England's First Woman Judge|first=Hilary|last=Heilbron|date=22 October 2012|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9781782250289|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> In her third film, ''[[Blue Murder at St Trinian's]]'' (1957), she had a non-speaking role in which, despite sharing equal billing with the star [[Alastair Sim]] on posters and appearing in many publicity stills in school uniform, she was required only to sit up in bed wearing a nightdress, reading a book, while the action took place around her.<ref name=davenport-hines/>{{rp|129}}

Sabrina's penultimate film role was in the western ''[[The Phantom Gunslinger]]'' (1970),<ref name="BFI">{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7f655810|title=The Phantom Gunslinger (1967)|publisher=British Film Institute|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805003807/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7f655810}}</ref>{{efn|Although it was not released until 1970, the film was produced in 1967.}} in which she starred alongside [[Troy Donahue]]. Her final film was the [[horror movie]] ''[[The Ice House (1969 film)|The Ice House]]'' (1969), in which she replaced [[Jayne Mansfield]], who had died in a car crash two years earlier.

In 1958, she was awarded an honorary [[D.Litt.]] by the [[University of Leeds]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Sabrina, model and sex symbol – obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/10/09/sabrina-model-sex-symbol-obituary/ |accessdate=11 January 2020 |work=The Telegraph |date=9 October 2017}}</ref> On 27 November 1967 Sabrina married Dr. Harold Melsheimer (born 11 June 1927 in Germany), a Hollywood gynaecologist/obstetrician. They divorced ten years later.<ref name=manchester>{{cite web|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/fifties-pin-up-star-now-living-1176601|title=Fifties Pin-Up Star Now Living in Squalor|date=4 September 2007|publisher=Manchester Evening News|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref>

In 2007, there were newspaper reports that Sabrina had become a hermit, "living in squalor" in a Spanish-style house on a street known as 'Smog Central', under the flightpath of [[Burbank Airport]].<ref name=manchester/> Sabrina admitted that she was confined to the house due to back problems, but denied living in squalor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nylon.net/sabrina/|title=Encyclopedia Sabrina|publisher=Encyclopedia Sabrina}}{{nonspecific|date=August 2022}}</ref>

Having suffered from ill health for many years, partly owing to botched back surgery, she died of blood poisoning in 2016, at the age of 80.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sabrina-norma-ann-sykes-0n9pc8t6t|title=Obituary Sabrina (Norma Ann Sykes)|date=2017-10-07|publisher=The Sunday Times|access-date=2022-08-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nylon.net/sabrina/pages/tributes.htm|title=Tributes to Sabrina|publisher=Encyclopedia Sabrina|access-date=2022-08-20}}</ref>

==Cultural depictions==
{{in popular culture|date=July 2018}}
The scripts of ''[[The Goon Show]]'' are littered with references to Sabrina's bosom, such as "By the measurements of Sabrina!" and "By the sweaters of Sabrina!"<ref name="Goons">{{cite web |title=Sabrina Sounds |url=http://nylon.net/sabrina/pages/sabrinasounds.htm |publisher=The Encyclopaedia Sabrina |accessdate=18 October 2013}}</ref>

In "The Scandal Magazine", an episode of the radio programme ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'', [[Sid James]] plays the editor of a sleazy [[gossip magazine]] that has carried an embarrassing story about [[Tony Hancock]]. James tells Hancock that his readers "will believe anything. ... If I told them that Sabrina was Arthur Askey's mother, they'd believe me." Hancock replies, "Well, I don't", pauses and asks, "She's not, is she?" James says emphatically "No", but Hancock reflects, "Mind you, there is a resemblance ..."

Hunchfront of Lime Grove – "A somewhat unappealing nickname given to the generously endowed starlet known as Sabrina ..."<ref>{{cite book|date=2011|editor-last=Willey|editor-first=Russ|title=Brewer's Dictionary of London Phrase & Fable|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199916214.001.0001/acref-9780199916214-e-1114?result=9&rskey=lmUFme|chapter=Hunchfront of Lime Grove|publisher=Oxford Reference|doi=10.1093/acref/9780199916214.001.0001|isbn=978-0-19-991621-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/2009/10/voices-of-change/|title=Voices of change|last=Hensher|first=Philip|date=2009-10-24|magazine=The Spectator|access-date=2017-01-30}}</ref>

In the 1950s members of the [[Royal Air Force]] dubbed parts of the [[Hawker Hunter]] jet fighter plane "Sabrinas" owing to two large cartridge collection pods on the underside of the aircraft.<ref>{{cite book|last=Griffin |first=David. J. |title=Hawker Hunter 1951 to 2007 |year=2006 |publisher=Lulu Enterprises |isbn=978-1-4303-0593-4|page=19}}</ref> Similarly, in the late 1950s, when [[ERF (truck manufacturer)|ERF]], a British firm that made lorries (trucks), produced a semi-forward control heavy goods vehicle (HGV) with a short protruding bonnet, these vehicles were nicknamed "Sabrinas" because they had "a little more in front".

The 1959 [[Triumph Motor Company|Triumph]] TR3S 1985 cc iron-block alloy-headed engine was called "Sabrina" because of its dome-shaped cam drivers.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Triumph TR2/3|last=Heseltine|first=Richard|date=2014-07-07|magazine=Motor Sport Magazine|url=http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/january-2010/122/richard-heseltine|access-date=2017-01-30}}</ref>

In 1974, the British motoring press gave the name "Sabrinas" to the oversized pairs of protruding rubber bumper blocks (see [[dagmar bumpers]]) added to the [[MG MGB]], [[MG Midget|Midget]] and [[Triumph TR6]] sports cars, when U.S. safety regulations mandated sturdier impact protection. The name stuck and is used around the world.<ref>{{cite book|title=Original MGB|date=1994|publisher=Bay View Books|last=Clausager|first=Anders D.|page=25}}</ref>

==Television appearances==
* ''Before Your Very Eyes'' (1955–1956, ten episodes)
* ''[[Double Your Money]]'' (1955)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cherishedtelevision.co.uk/doubleyourmoney.html|title=Double Your Money – A Cherished Television Review|publisher=Cherished Television|access-date=30 January 2017|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-05-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090519013316/http://www.cherishedtelevision.co.uk/doubleyourmoney.html}}</ref>
* ''[[Tarzan (1966 TV series)|Tarzan]]'' (one episode, 1967)
* ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' (Arthur Askey, 1974)

==Acting credits==
*''[[Stock Car (film)|Stock Car]]'' (1955)
*''[[Ramsbottom Rides Again]]'' (1956)
*''[[Blue Murder at St Trinian's]]'' (1957)<ref>{{cite book|url={{Google books|dfO7BAAAQBAJ|plainurl=yes}}|title=It Came From Outer Space Wearing an RAF Blazer!: A Fan's Biography of Sir Patrick Moore|first=Martin|last=Mobberley|date=23 July 2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9783319006093|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref>
* ''Goodnight with Sabrina'' (1958)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5421642/|title=Goodnight with Sabrina|date=1 January 2000|website=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref>
* ''[[Just My Luck (1957 film)|Just My Luck]]'' (1957)
* ''[[Make Mine a Million]]'' (1959)
* ''[[Satan in High Heels]]'' (1962)
*''[[House of the Black Death]]'' (1965)
*''[[The Ice House (1969 film)|The Ice House]]'' (1969)
*''[[The Phantom Gunslinger]]'' (1970)

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
* [https://nylon.net/sabrina/ The Complete Sabrina (Norma Sykes) Encyclopaedia]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCIGGF980nU At Home – (Sabrina Encyclopaedia)]
* http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp101768/norma-ann-sykes-sabrina
* {{IMDb name|id=0754910|name=Sabrina}}
* [https://www.aenigma-images.com/2016/02/sabrina/ Sabrina] at [https://www.aenigma-images.com/ aenigma]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071204164156/http://tldynamic.leeds.ac.uk/leedsyorkshire/honorary/honorary_graduates_1950.asp 1959 award of D.Litt. (Hon)]

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