Norah Sturdee
Norah Sturdee (circa 1892-)[1] was a British actress
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Biography
Born Norah Geraldine Sturdee in Blackheath, London, Middlesex, ca 1892, she was the daughter of Arthur Frederick Sturdee and Inez Geraldine (Heyer) Sturdee and the sister of Freda M. Sturdee and actress and music hall artist Olga Sturdee.
Round about 1911 Norah had studied as an early student in the Academy of Dramatic Art (founded under the guidance of Herbert Beerbohm Tree in 1904).
She married Reginald Eric Jennens Moore in December of 1920, with whom she had two children, Mary Valerie Moore and Gerald Holyoake Moore. She later(?) married the actor Frank S. Bromley-Challenor, probably the brother of the actor-manager James Bromley-Challoner.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
In 1916 the Norah Sturdee is said to have toured South Africa, possibly with James Bromley-Challoner's theatrical company .
At the start of 1917 Norah chose to leave the tour and return to the UK, arriving back in England by May 1917.
Sources
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sturdee-14
E-mail correspondence with Nick Jackson about Norah Sturdee and the South African tour (1 May 2020).
Further correspondence and documentation (also on Olga Sturdee) provided by Nick Jackson on 12 May, 2020.
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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