Anna Neagle
Tony Mangion's interesting article on Anna Neagle has a rather glaring error in his comment on Odette (1950) - the true story of Odette Sansom, later Odette Churchill, who was a member of the French Resistance during the occupation of France in World...
Tony Mangion's interesting article on Anna Neagle has a rather glaring error in his comment on Odette (1950) - the true story of Odette Sansom, later Odette Churchill, who was a member of the French Resistance during the occupation of France in World War II.
Odette did not "ultimately sacrifice her life" as stated by Mr Mangion - she was betrayed in April 1943 together with Peter Churchill, taken to Fresnes Prison in Paris and a year later transported to Ravensbruck in Germany, which she mercifully survived - escaping extermination by pretending to be married to Peter Churchill who, she stated, was a close relation of Prime Minister Winston Churchill! Both Churchill from Dachau and Odette from Ravensbruck were freed by American troops in May 1945.
This was the ending of the 1950 film which was based on Jerrard Tickell's Odette - the story of a British agent (Chapman and Hall, 1949) and in Set Europe Ablaze - 1940-1945 by E.H. Cookridge, pages 147-155. Mme Sansom later married Peter Churchill but the marriage was dissolved some years later.