Jean Ross
جين روس (كاتبة)
Brits zangeres
זמרת בריטית
këngëtare britanike
chanteuse, journaliste, activiste et critique britannique du XXe siècle
brittisk journalist och vänsteraktivist
British writer, political activist, and film critic (1911-1973)
cantante británica
ব্রিটিশ গায়িকা
مغنيه من المملكه المتحده لبريطانيا العظمى و ايرلاندا
Suurbritannia laulja
cântăreață britanică
cantant britànica
영국 작가
مغنية بريطانية
خواننده بریتانیایی
baaŋa ŋun nyɛ paɣa
cantante británica (1911–1973)
Alexandria, Egypt
Richmond, Surrey, England
Jean Iris Ross
Olivia Wilde
While in Weimar Berlin, Ross sang in lesbian bars and second-rate cabarets.
Ross in c.1931
A black and white photo of Ernest Hemingway seated at a typewriter
A black and white image of Arthur Koestler in 1969
Journalist, film critic, activist
left
right
Day
Bergfelder
Isherwood
Doyle
Bock
"Reply to Berlin", October 1986
Claud Cockburn with whom Ross had a child, Sarah Caudwell. In August 1939, three months after their daughter's birth, Cockburn abandoned Ross and their child.
Julie Harris as Sally Bowles
Weimar culture
During the Spanish Civil War, Ross worked alongside journalists Ernest Hemingway and Arthur Koestler in Madrid. Ross travelled across Andalusia with Richard Mowrer, the step-son of Hemingway's first wife Hadley Richardson.
Arthur Koestler .jpg
Daily Express
Daily Worker
Eric Maschwitz
John Cornford
Claud Cockburn
Peter van Eyck
Sarah Caudwell
—Sarah Caudwell
[Ross] never liked Goodbye to Berlin, nor felt any sense of identity with the character of Sally Bowles ... She never cared enough, however, to be moved to any public rebuttal. She did from time to time settle down conscientiously to write a letter, intending to explain to Isherwood the ways in which she thought he had misunderstood her; but it seldom progressed beyond 'Dear Christopher ...' It was interrupted, no doubt, by more urgent things: meetings about Vietnam, petitions against nuclear weapons, making my supper, hearing my French verbs. It was in Isherwood's life, not hers, that Sally Bowles remained a significant figure.
[Ross] may well, at 19, have been less informed about politics than Isherwood, five or six years older; but, when the Spanish war came and the fascists were bombing Madrid, it was she, not Isherwood, who was there to report it.
There is nothing in his [Isherwood's] portrait of Sally [Bowles] to suggest that she might have any genuine ability as an actress, still less as a writer. My mother [Jean Ross], on the other hand, was at least talented enough as an actress to be cast as Anitra in Max Reinhardt's production of Peer Gynt and competent enough as a writer to earn her living, not long afterwards, as a scenario-writer and journalist.