Sunday Wilshin

{{Short description|British actress and radio producer (1905–1991)}}

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Sunday Wilshin (26 February 1905{{spaced ndash}}19 March 1991) was a British actress and radio producer; the successor to George Orwell on his resignation in 1943.All Propaganda is Lies, 1941–1942, George Orwell, Secker & Warburg, 2001, pg 9 She was born in London as Mary Aline Wilshin[https://web.archive.org/web/20090116110311/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/117680 BFI.org] (corroborated by publicly available birth records; other sources give Sunday/ Sundae Mary Aline Horne (-) Wilshin)Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook, Lynn Kear and James King, McFarland & Company, 2009, pg 137 and educated at the Italia Conti Stage School.Noel Streatfeild: A Biography, Angela Bull, Collins, 1984, pg 82 Wilshin was a member of the 'Bright young things' of the 1920s, and a close friend of the actress Cyllene Moxon and of author (and former actress) Noel Streatfeild.{{Cite web|url=https://elvirabarney.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/sunday-wilshin/|title = Sunday Wilshin|date = 30 October 2011}} In connection with the 'bright young things', Wilshin commonly appears in accounts of a gathering whereat she was assaulted by the silent film actress Brenda Dean Paul.The Twenties, John Montgomery, 1957