Jean Ross, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jean Ross

British writer, political activist, and film critic

Date of Birth: 07-May-1911

Place of Birth: Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt

Date of Death: 27-Apr-1973

Profession: writer, singer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Jean Ross

  • Jean Iris Ross Cockburn ( KOH-b?rn; 7 May 1911 – 27 April 1973) was a British writer, political activist, and film critic.
  • She was a life-long member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
  • 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 the Comintern.
  • A skilled writer, Ross was also a film critic for The Daily Worker, and her criticisms of early Soviet cinema were later described as "ingenious piece[s] of dialectical sophistry." Throughout her life, she wrote political criticism and anti-fascist polemics, as well as manifestos for a number of disparate organizations such as the British Workers' Film and Photo League.During her itinerant youth in Weimar Berlin, Ross was a cabaret singer and fashion model.
  • She served as the inspiration for the fictional character Sally Bowles in Christopher Isherwood's The Berlin Stories, later adapted into the long-running stage musical Cabaret and chosen by Time magazine as among the best novels of the 20th century.
  • For the remainder of her life, Ross believed the public association of herself with the naïve and apolitical character of Bowles occluded her lifelong work as a professional writer and political activist.
  • Sharing this belief, her daughter Sarah Caudwell later wrote a newspaper article in an attempt to correct the historical record and to dispel misconceptions regarding Ross.
  • According to Caudwell, "in the transformations of the novel for stage and cinema the characterization of Sally [Bowles] has become progressively cruder and less subtle and the stories about 'the original' correspondingly more high-colored."

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