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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]].
 
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]].
  
Her sister, [[Olga Sturdee]] was apparently also an actress, and both sisters appear to have toured in South Africa - though with different companies.
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Her sister, [[Olga Sturdee]], was apparently also an actress, possibly resident in Canada in the 1900s, and both sisters appear to have toured in South Africa - though with different companies.  
 
 
Olga toured with a company that left England for Cape Town on the Union-Castle steamship ''The Briton'' from Tilbury on 26 July 1915. The British performers listed on the passenger list also included other music hall artists and actresses, including  Mrs [[Y. Blyth]], 
 
The company may also have included a Mrs [[S. Robbins]], a Miss [[E.H. Russel]] and a Miss [[B. Stackland]] ([[B. Stockland]]?), since all four actresses are listed as returning to England at the start of the 1916, leaving from Durban on the Castle passenger ship in March and arriving in London on 10 April.
 
  
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
  
In  1916 the Norah Sturdee seemed to have toured South Africa, possibly with [[James Bromley-Challoner]]'s theatrical company.  
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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.
 
At the start of 1917 Norah chose to leave the tour and return to the UK, arriving back in England by May 1917.

Revision as of 10:52, 13 May 2020

Norah Sturdee (circa 1892-)[1] was a British actress

Biography

Born about 1892 in Blackheath, London, Middlesex, she was the daughter of Arthur Frederick Sturdee and Inez Geraldine (Heyer) Sturdee. Round about 1911 she 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.

Her sister, Olga Sturdee, was apparently also an actress, possibly resident in Canada in the 1900s, and both sisters appear to have toured in South Africa - though with different companies.

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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