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Sally Bowles (/ b oʊ l z /) is a fictional character created by English-American novelist Christopher Isherwood and based upon 19-year-old cabaret singer Jean Ross. The character debuted in Isherwood's 1937 novella Sally Bowles published by Hogarth Press , [2] and commentators have described the novella as "one of Isherwood's most accomplished ...
Christopher Isherwood in 1938. Ross arranged for Isherwood to be hired by director Berthold Viertel and launched his screenwriting career. While in England, Ross' connections to the British film industry proved crucial to Isherwood's future career.
Due to his limited finances, Isherwood shared modest lodgings in Berlin with 19-year-old Jean Ross, a British cabaret singer who inspired the fictional character of Sally Bowles. An aspiring film actress, Ross earned her living as a chanteuse in lesbian bars and second-rate cabarets.
- Christopher Isherwood
- 1945
Mar 22, 2019 · 22.03.2019 - 12:29 Uhr. by The Berliner. 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...
Mar 19, 2011 · In real life there had, of course, been no such affair but Isherwood explained there had been a real Sally Bowles, a young Englishwoman in Berlin called Jean Ross. As he wrote her, Sally's...
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...
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Apr 12, 2013 · He lived there with Jean Ross, the model for his most famous character, the capricious nightclub singer and aspiring actress Sally Bowles, who captivated him with her “air of not caring a curse...
