Sunday Wilshin

{{Short description|British actress and radio producer (1905–1991)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Sunday Wilshin, by Bassano, vintage print, late 1932

'''Sunday Wilshin''' (26 February 1905{{spaced ndash}}19 March 1991) was a British actress and radio producer; the successor to George Orwell on his resignation in 1943.<ref>All Propaganda is Lies, 1941–1942, George Orwell, Secker & Warburg, 2001, pg 9</ref> She was born in London as '''Mary Aline Wilshin'''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090116110311/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/117680 BFI.org]</ref> (corroborated by publicly available birth records; other sources give Sunday/ Sundae Mary Aline Horne (-) Wilshin)<ref>Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook, Lynn Kear and James King, McFarland & Company, 2009, pg 137</ref> and educated at the Italia Conti Stage School.<ref>Noel Streatfeild: A Biography, Angela Bull, Collins, 1984, pg 82</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://elvirabarney.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/sunday-wilshin/|title = Sunday Wilshin|date = 30 October 2011}}</ref> 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.<ref>The Twenties, John Montgomery, 1957</ref>

==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)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==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== *{{IMDb name|0932916}}

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