Sally Bowles

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Sally Bowles () is a fictional character created by English-American novelist Christopher Isherwood and based on 19-year-old cabaret singer Jean Ross. The character debuted in Isherwood's novella Sally Bowles, published in October 1937 by Hogarth Press. Critics regard the novella as among Isherwood's most accomplished works of fiction. The work was republished in the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Hogarth Press and in the 1945 anthology The Berlin Stories by New Directions. In the 1937 novella, a British flapper named Sally Bowles moonlights as a cabaret singer in Weimar-era Berlin during the twilight of the Jazz Age. By day, Sally aspires to be a film actress employed by UFA, the German production company. By night, she works as a chanteuse at an underground club called The Lady Windermere near the Tauentzienstraße. Hoping to become a famous actress or the mistress of a wealthy man, Sally engages in a series of sexual flings, becomes pregnant, and undergoes an abortion. She departs Berlin...

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