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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.
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 ...
11 de dic. de 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 ...
That same Jean Ross, it was said, was the real Sally Bowles, chief character in the film played by Liza Minnelli. Ross died in 1973 and I was never able to track down the origins or indeed the veracity of the stories. Now, 40 years after her death, I think I've found the truth.
Jean Ross (1911-1973) inspired the character Sally Bowles, the cabaret singer in Christopher Isherwood’s novel, Goodbye to Berlin, as well as the musical adaptation, Cabaret. Where fictional Sally was untroubled and naive, her real-life counterpart was driven, politically-engaged, and curious.
The novel's most memorable character—the "divinely decadent" Sally Bowles—was based upon 19-year-old flapper Jean Ross with whom Isherwood shared lodgings at Nollendorfstraße 17 in Schöneberg. Much like the character in the novel, Ross was a promiscuous young woman and a bohemian chanteuse in lesbian bars and second-rate cabarets.
