Judge doesn't like drunk actress, but he really likes her dad.
Man, I should have started reading the Daily Mirror more frequently long ago. Today, they dug up a piece by Jack Smith, who's got a very good reporterly name, about Sarah Churchill showing up in court 50 years ago on a public drunk rap.
The actress pleaded guilty, said she got sick while studying for some TV lines, and asked for mercy. Judge Charles H. Woodmansee accepted them "without rancor," gave her a $50 fine and then told her that her father was really, really great.
"You are the daughter of the most famous living statesman -- the greatest living statesman in the world," he said.
Ahh, I suppose it's worth mentioning for our younger readers that Sarah's pops was Winston Churchill. And I hope I don't have to mention to them that he was a British prime minister who was pretty important.
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