Celebrity Biographies
Sybil jason
Sybil Jason, a child actress who developed her career in Hollywood for only five years, between 1935 and 1940, that is, in the period between the ages of eight and thirteen, has died. Her death occurred on August 23 at her home in Northridge, California. She was 83 years old, and the cause of her was a chronic pulmonary obstruction, according to her daughter.
Sybil Jason was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on November 23, 1927. A true child prodigy, it is said that she was already playing the piano at the age of 19. Her talent for dancing, singing and gesturing from an early age caught the attention of her uncle Harry Jacobson, who led an orchestra in London. With him she performed at the Palladium and on the radio, and her natural self-confidence led her to impersonate unlikely characters, such as Maurice Chevalier . So much talent of hers led to her film debut in 1935 in the United Kingdom in Barnacle Hill , where she composed the same role of the protagonist when she was a child.
She was hired by Warner, the boss Jack the girl had impressed her and her idea was that she could compete with the child actress of the time, Shirley Temple. One measure put into practice by the producer was that his little artist should not see the films of her rival, so that she would not fall into emulation. Curiously, he would share two films with her, The Little Princess (1939) and The Blue Bird (1940) -this would be her farewell to the screen-, already when her star was definitely languishing, and they were her friends until the death of she. The truth is that, contrary to expectations, Jason did not succeed in the cinema. She was seen with Humphrey Bogart in The Great O’Malley (1937) and with Al Johnson in The Singing Kid (1936), but they were far from popular titles.
Abandoned the cinema, Sybil completed his school studies in South Africa during the years of World War II, and later moved to California, United States, where he gave acting classes. In 1947 she married Anthony Drake, a radio scriptwriter, who bore her only daughter, Toni, who in turn bore her a grandson.