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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.
Feb 17, 2021 · Jessie Matthews was one of the biggest British screen stars of the 1930s. She achieved success not only in Britain, but also in the US, even though she never made a Hollywood film.[1] Matthews starred in a whopping fourteen films between 1931 and 1938; yet most contemporary articles foreground her private life over her film…
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.
Jessie 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. After a string of hit stage musicals and films in the mid-1930s, Matthews developed a following in the USA, where she was dubbed "The Dancing Divinity".
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...
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Jessie Matthews. (1907–81) Actress (died aged 74) | Evergreen (1934), Climbing High (1938), First a Girl (1935) Vivacious English singing and dancing star of light musicals in the 30s, on stage from 1917. Mini Biography.
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.
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 (1907 - 1981) She was "The Dancing Divinity" - the most potent icon of 30s cinema. She had what audiences wanted, but when the decade ended, so did her career. Born in Soho she grew up wanting to dance and by her early twenties she was starring in the West End and on Broadway.
