With her 18-inch waist, platinum blonde beehive and an eye-popping bust her agent insured for £100,000 against “deflation”, she was Britain’s answer to Marilyn Monroe.
Norma Ann Sykes, better known in the London of the 1950s and 1960s as glamorous model and actress Sabrina, became an almost overnight success.
But just like Monroe, hers would be a tragic story.
