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Jean Iris Ross Cockburn (/ ˈ k oʊ b ər n / KOH-bərn; 7 May 1911 – 27 April 1973) was a British journalist, political activist, and film critic. During the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), she was a war correspondent for the Daily Express and is alleged to have been a press agent for Joseph Stalin's Comintern.
Jean Ross. Actress: Why Sailors Leave Home. Jean Iris Ross was a war correspondent, thespian, and cabaret singer who inspired Christopher Isherwood's famous character of Sally Bowles.
- May 7, 1911
- April 27, 1973
Sally Bowles is based on Jean Ross, a vivacious British flapper and later an ardent Stalinist, whom Isherwood knew while sojourning in Weimar-era Berlin during the twilight of the Jazz Age. Belying her humble circumstances in Berlin, the 19-year-old Ross was the offspring of a wealthy Scottish cotton merchant and came from a privileged ...
Dec 11, 2021 · Jean Ross was a blue-stocking who had been friends with Isherwood in Berlin, and upon whom he based his deeply decadent Sally Bowles. An upper-middle-class English girl, barely 20 and having been expelled from boarding school and walked out of RADA, she was cadging off lovers and singing in the city’s many clubs when the Anglo-American author ...
Mar 22, 2019 · Berlin’s most famous British expat is arguably Christopher Isherwood’s Sally Bowles. But the real-life woman behind the fictional character, Jean Ross, was so much more than a silly dilettante who sang badly...
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Apr 25, 2014 · It wasn’t revealed until after Isherwood’s death in 1973 that Sally was, in fact, based on a real person: Jean Ross, whom Isherwood met while he was living in Berlin in the ’30s. Many elements of...
Jean Iris Ross Cockburn was a British journalist, political activist, and film critic. During the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), she was a war correspondent for the Daily Express and is alleged to have been a press agent for Joseph Stalin's Comintern.
