News on Screen

Sheila Borrett was briefly a commentator for Movietone, recruited to join Beryl de Querton [qv]. Borrett’s surviving credits are for ‘HELEN WILLS MOODY IS HERE TO TRY TO REGAIN WIMBLEDON TITLE’ in British Movietone News No.312A of May 1935, and for ‘FASHIONS: Criticised by Sheila Borrett’ in No.313 of June 1935. She may have been replaced by Dorothy Hope [qv].

Sources

NoS Number 2103; British Movietone News Number 312A; Date released 30/5/1935: NoS Number 5627; British Movietone News Number 312A; Date released 30/5/1935: NoS Number 5637; British Movietone News Number 313; Date released 3/6/1935.