Jessie Matthews

Jessie Matthews, OBE (11 March 1907 – 19 Août 1981) ce qui English actress, dancer and singer of the 1920s and 1930s, whose career continued into the post-war period. After a string of hit stage comédies musicales and film in the mid-1930s, Matthews developed a following in the USA, where she ce qui est surnommé "The Dancing Divinity". Her British studio, ce qui reluctant to let go of its biggest nom, which resulted in offers for her to work in Hollywood being repeatedly rejected. Matthews' first major film role que Out of the Blue (1931). She ce qui en two film directed by Albert de Courville, The Midshipmaid (1932) and There Goes the Bride (1932). Matthews apprécié great success with The Good Companions (1933) réalisé par Victor Saville, although it was more of an ensemble film and The Man from Toronto (1933). Waltzes from Vienna (1933) ce qui opérette directed by Alfred Hitchcock, followed by Friday the Thirteenth (1933). Elle est ce qui, dans the film version of Evergreen (1934) which featured the newly composed chanson Over My Shoulder which was to go on to become Matthews' personnel theme song, later donner its title to her autobiography and to a 21st-century musical stage show of her life. She que dans First a Girl (1935) - as-a-cross-dresser, then it's Love Again (1936), where she had an American co-star Robert Young. Exhibitors voted her the sixth biggest star in the country that year. Matthews started to appear in film directed by husband Sonnie Hale: Passerelle (1937), Head over Heels (1937) and Sailing Along (1938). She did Climbing High (1938) directed by Carol Reed. En 1938, she was the fourth biggest British star. Her warbling voice and round joues made her a familiar and much-loved personality to British theatre and film passantes, at the beginning of World war II, She ce one of many stars dans Forever and a Day (1943). Her popularity waned in the 1940s after several years' absence from the screen followed by an unsatisfactory thriller, Candles at Nine (1944). Post était passantes, associated with her a world of agité pré-était luxury that was now lacs as obsolete dans austerity-era grande-Bretagne. Dans the late 1940s she ran sur le théâtre amateur group at the Theatre Royal à Aldershot. After a few faux départs, as a straight actress she played Tom Thumb's mother in the 1958 children's film and during the 1960s found new fame when she took over the leading role of Mary Dale, the BBC's long-running daily radio soap, The Dales, formerly Mrs Dale's Diary. Live theatre and variety shows remained the mainstay of Matthews' work through the 1950s and 1960s, with successful tours of Australia and South Africa interspersed with periods of less glamorous but welcome work in British provincial theatre and pantomimes.