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Jessie Margaret Matthews OBE (11 March 1907 – 19 August 1981) was an English actress, dancer and singer of the 1920s and 1930s, whose career continued into the post-war period. [1] [2]
Jessie Matthews. Actress: Strauss' Great Waltz. Born to a huge, poor family in Soho in London's West End, Jessie Matthews became a big stage star in the late 1920s and 1930s, enjoying some crossover success in musical films.
Oct 14, 2007 · Jessie Mat... The Turbo-dually-rotating-stage-tastic cloud-dancing conclusion to Evergreen, the 1934 film of London's biggest stage musical hit up to that time.
Aug 21, 1981 · Jessie Matthews, a star of Britain's musical-comedy stage, died of cancer today. She was 74 years old. Miss Matthews won fame on three continents before World War II as a...
Apr 26, 2010 · Jessie Matthews, Britain's Queen of musicals in the 1930s, guest starred in a 1976 episode of the medical drama 'Angels', produced by Julia Smith, who went o...
Jessie Margaret Matthews OBE (11 March 1907 – 19 August 1981) was an English actress, dancer and singer of the 1920s and 1930s, whose career continued into the post-war period.
Jessie Matthews was a gamine, graceful dancer, with a sweet, pure-toned singing voice, and waif-like sex appeal, who embodied 1930s style. One of 11 children of a Soho costermonger, Matthews enjoyed dancing from an early age, and elocution lessons created her distinctive "plummy" accent.
