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Sybil Marjorie Evers (19 June 1904 – 24 June 1963) was an English singer and actress. She performed in operettas, operas and plays in London from the early 1920s through the late 1930s, including on BBC radio and television. She married Olympic champion runner Harold Abrahams .
Jul 19, 2012 · In real life, she was Sybil Evers. It's easy to see why the film has its Sybils in a twist: both were real people, and both were singers with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the interwar...
Sybil Evers died in 1963 at the age of 59, and her widower set up two awards in her name: the Sybil Evers Memorial Prize for Singing (1965–1995), an annual cash prize awarded to the best female singer in her last year at the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art, and the Sybil Abrahams Memorial Trophy, presented each year from ...
- Harold Maurice Abrahams
- 165 lb (75 kg)
- 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
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Jul 7, 2013 · Abrahams and his (non-Jewish) wife, Sybil Evers, a singer with the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company whom he married in 1936, adopted two children in England in the 1940s. They also fostered two Jewish child refugees, one from Germany, the other from Austria.
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Jan 28, 2002 · Sybil Evers (1930-31) Sybil Evers made her first London appearance in June 1927 as Nixie in a single performance of The Ladder, a musical fantasy at Daly's Theatre. She appeared with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from March 1930 to September 1931, taking the small parts of Kate in The Pirates of Penzance, the Lady Saphir in Patience, Leila in ...
Aug 8, 2012 · Although Harold Abrahams’ romance with opera singer Sybil Evers features in the film, it did not in fact begin until nine years after the Olympics. It was not Abrahams who won the legendary ‘college dash’ but his friend Lord Burghley (fictionalised in the film as Lord Andrew Lindsay, played by Nigel Havers).
Sybil Marjorie Evers (19 June 1904 – 24 June 1963) was an English singer and actress. She performed in operettas, operas and plays in London from the early 1920s through the late 1930s, including on BBC radio and television. She married Olympic champion runner Harold Abrahams.
