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Sybil Evers in 1937. 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 .
19 lug 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...
In early 1934, he met D'Oyly Carte Opera Company singer Sybil Evers, and they began a passionate on-and-off romance. According to his biographer Mark Ryan, Abrahams had a fear of commitment and old-fashioned ideas about the role of women in marriage, but he was able to overcome these, and the couple wed in December 1936.
- Harold Maurice Abrahams
- 165 lb (75 kg)
- 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Abrahams' fiancée is misidentified as Sybil Gordon, a soprano with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. In fact, in 1936, Abrahams married Sybil Evers, who also performed with D'Oyly Carte, but they did not meet until 1934.
28 gen 2002 · 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 Iolanthe , Peep-Bo in The Mikado , and Vittoria in The Gondoliers.
8 ago 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).
7 lug 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.
