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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.
Jessie Margaret Matthews was born in a flat behind a butcher's shop at 94 Berwick Street, Soho, London, in relative poverty, the seventh of sixteen children (of whom eleven survived) of a fruit-and-vegetable seller. She took dancing lessons as a child in a room above the local public house at 22 Berwick Street.
She went on stage on 29 December 1919, aged 12, in Bluebell in Fairyland, by Seymour Hicks, music by Walter Slaughter and lyrics by Charles Taylor, at the Metropolitan Music Hall, Edgware Road, London, as a child dancer; she made her film debut in 1923 in the silent film The Beloved Vagabond.
Matthews was in the chorus in Charlot's Review of 1924 in London. She went with the show to New York, where she was also understudy to the star, Gertrude Lawrence. The show moved to Toronto, and when Lawrence fell ill she took over the role and was given great reviews. Matthews was acclaimed in the United Kingdom as a dancer and as the first performer of numerous popular songs of the 1920s and 1930s, including "A Room with a View" by Noël Coward and "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" by Cole Porter. 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". Her British studio was reluctant to let go of its biggest name, which resulted in offers for her to work in Hollywood being repeatedly rejected.
The Good Companions is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Victor Saville starring Jessie Matthews and John Gielgud. It was based on the novel of the same name by J.B. Priestley.
A group of widely divergent characters meet up with a broken-down touring concert-party, throw in their lot with them, and eventually triumph after temporary setbacks. This British musical-comedy follows an unlikely trio as they try to revive the fortunes of the floundering theatrical troupe. School teacher Inigo Jolifant (John Gielgud) with his talent for songwriting, and recently unemployed Jess Oakroyd (Edmund Gwenn) with his theatrical ambitions, together persuade Miss Trant (Mary Glynne), an older single woman looking for adventure, to fund them as they attempt to bring "The Dinky Do's" back into the spotlight. Susie Dean (Jessie Matthews) is a chorus girl who dreams of stardom, and when she's made the new leader of the show, it looks as if her dreams may finally come true.
The Good Companions is a 1957 British musical film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Eric Portman. It is based on the novel of the same name and is a remake of the 1933 film version.
Sir Arthur John Gielgud OM CH (/ˈɡiːlɡʊd/; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000), was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century. A member of the Terry family theatrical dynasty, he gained his first paid acting work as a junior member of his cousin Phyllis Neilson-Terry's company in 1922. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art he worked in repertory theatre and in the West End before establishing himself at the Old Vic as an exponent of Shakespeare in 1929–31.
During the 1930s Gielgud was a stage star in the West End and on Broadway, appearing in new works and classics. He began a parallel career as a director, and set up his own company at the Queen's Theatre, London. He was regarded by many as the finest Hamlet of his era, and was also known for high comedy roles such as John Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest. In the 1950s Gielgud feared that his career was threatened when he was convicted and fined for a homosexual offence, but his colleagues and the public supported him loyally. When avant-garde plays began to supersede traditional West End productions in the later 1950s he found no new suitable stage roles, and for several years he was best known in the theatre for his one-man Shakespeare show, The Ages of Man. From the late 1960s he found new plays that suited him, by authors including Alan Bennett, David Storey and Harold Pinter.
The Good Companions is a novel by the English author J. B. Priestley.
Written in 1929 (in Deal, Kent), it focuses on the trials and tribulations of a concert party in England between World War I and World War II. It is arguably Priestley's most famous novel, and the work which established him as a national figure. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was adapted twice into film.
The novel is written in picaresque style, and opens with the middle aged, discontented Jess Oakroyd in the fictional Yorkshire town of Bruddersford. He opts to leave his family and seek adventure "on t'road" (throughout the novel Priestley uses dialect for all non-RP speakers of English). He heads south down the Great North Road.
Intertwined with the story of Oakroyd's travels are those of Elizabeth Trant and Inigo Jollifant, two similarly malcontented individuals. Miss Trant is an upper-middle class spinster and Jollifant is a teacher at a down-at-heel private school. All three ultimately encounter each other when a failing concert troupe ('The Dinky Doos') are disbanding as a result of their manager's running off with the takings. The independently wealthy Miss Trant, against the advice of her relatives, decides to refloat the troupe, now known as 'The Good Companions'. Inigo plays piano, Oakroyd is the odd-job man, and other assorted characters including members of the original troupe: including Jimmy Nunn, Jerry Jerningham and Susie Dean, along with Mr Morton Mitcham (a travelling banjo player whom Inigo met earlier on his own odyssey) have various adventures round the shires of middle England.
The Good Companions is a musical with a book by Ronald Harwood, music by André Previn, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It is based on the 1929 novel of the same title by J. B. Priestley.
The plot focuses on the trials and tribulations of a touring concert party known as the Dinky-Doos who are stranded in the English countryside when their manager absconds with the most recent box office revenue and the lady pianist. Jess Oakroyd, an amiable man who has abandoned his shrewish wife, endears himself to the company with his homespun advice, and they invite him to join them as a carpenter, baggage handler, and dogsbody. Elizabeth Trant comes to their rescue when she decides to use her inheritance to finance the troupe and escape from her boring life in the Cotswolds.
Because of his habit of playing the piano late at night, songwriter Inigo Jollifant has been fired from his position at the Washbury Manor School in East Anglia, and he replaces the concert party's recently departed pianist, bringing with him banjo player and illusionist Morton Mitcham. As Miss Trant slowly achieves managerial authority, she encourages the troupe - which includes comedienne Susie Dean and singer Jerry Jerningham - to change its name to The Good Companions.
The Good Companions may refer to:
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Jessie Matthews sings "Dancing on the Ceiling" from the 1934 Gaumont British musical film, "Evergreen"
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Jessie Matthews sings "Your Heart Skips a beat" from the 1937 British Musical "Sailing Along"
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 on to produce EastEnders. The song was introduced by Alice Faye in the 1943 film Hello Frisco, Hello, for which it won that year's Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever. Original title: Evergreen (1934) Colorized version: https://youtu.be/bYu6tvFRdGY Director: Victor Saville Writers: Benn W. Levy (based on the stage play) & Emlyn Williams, Marjorie Gaffney Stars: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Betty Balfour Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance Available with multiple subtitle language options. Go to settings ⚙️ to select your preferred language.
Watch It's Love Again (1936) Full Movie on The Film Detective Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in India, jumping out of airplanes, and generally driving men mad with her beauty. Since no one in London has ever seen Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Elaine decides to impersonate the lady, in hopes that the publicity will land her the big break she's been looking for. Director: Victor Saville Writers: Marion Dix (scenario), Marion Dix (screenplay) Stars: Jessie Matthews, Robert Young, Sonnie Hale For more information about The Film Detective, visit: Website: https://www.thefilmdetective.com/ ...
Waltzes from Vienna is a 1934 British biographical film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, sometimes known as Strauss' Great Waltz. It was part of the cycle of operetta films made in Britain during the 1930s. Starring: Esmond Knight Jessie Matthews Edmund Gwenn Fay Compton
"Catch A Fallen Star" - A Portrait of Jessie Matthews BBC 1981
The Good Companions (1933) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024073/
The Good Companions is a 1933 British backstage comedy directed by Victor Saville starring Jessie Matthews, John Gielgud and Edmund Gwenn. It is based on the 1929 novel of the same name by JB Priestley. Gielgud had appeared in the 1931 theatrical version of the novel, written by Priestley, which had ran for more than three hundred performances in the West End. Adele Dixon who had played Susie Dean on stage was replaced by Jessie Matthews. It was shot at the Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfred Junge while the costumes were by Gordon Conway. Henry Ainley narrated the prologue. This entire film is available to watch at: https://bit.ly/goodcomp1
1933. This is SERIOUS Art Deco. Style, wit, beauty and sophistication - it's all there. And there's MORE on this channel...
http://www.networkdvd.net/product_info.php?products_id=1408 Jan Francis leads a lively cast in Beiderbecke writer Alan Plater's definitive adaptation of J.B. Priestley's celebrated novel. Charting the rollercoaster fortunes of a struggling concert party, Francis co-stars alongside Bryan Pringle, John Stratton and Moody and Pegg's Judy Cornwell, with guest appearances by Roy Kinnear, Denis Lawson and Nigel Hawthorne. Priestley's defining work -- and one which established him as a national figure -- The Good Companions has been a mainstay of English literature since its initial publication in 1929. Jess Oakroyd, discontented with his home, his work and his football team, tears up his Insurance Card and disappears into the night. He intends to go to Nuneaton, but instead finds himself on th...
The future looks bleak for The 'Dinky Doos' when their manager runs off with the funds and dwindling audiences force the theatre owner to close their show. However, a chance meeting of three strangers could bring about a big change in the fortunes of the little company. Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Written by J.B. Priestley, T.J. Morrison (screenplay) and John Whiting (additional dialogue). Starring Eric Portman, Celia Johnson and Hugh Griffith.
http://networkonair.com/shop/1801-good-companions-the.html Adapted from J.B. Priestley's famous novel charting the ups and downs of a struggling touring concert party, this endearing musical comedy features an outstanding array of British talent -- including Eric Portman, Celia Johnson, Hugh Griffith, Joyce Grenfell, Thora Hird and Anthony Newley. The Good Companions is presented here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. The future looks bleak for The 'Dinky Doos' when their manager runs off with the funds and dwindling audiences force the theatre owner to close their show. Young Susie Dean is particularly disconsolate: the talented singer and dancer is sure the setback will mean an end to her theatrical career. However, a chanc...
The Good Companions by J B Priestley JB Priestley's classic story of a 1929 concert party tour charts new adventures for factory worker Jess Oakroyd and newly independent Miss Trant. Starring Ralph Ineson, Fenella Woolgar and Roy Hudd. Dramatised by John Retallack. Jess Oakroyd ..... Ralph Ineson Miss Trant ..... Fenella Woolgar Jimmy Nunn ..... Roy Hudd Inigo Jollifant ..... Oliver Gomm Susie Dean ..... Isabella Inchbald Mr Ridvers ..... Gerard McDermott Mrs Joe ..... Ellie Darvill Monte Mortimer ..... Clive Hayward Leonard Oakroyd ..... Gary Duncan Mr Joe ..... Philip Bretherton Morton Mitcham ..... Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong Jerry Jerningham ..... Adam Fitzgerald Agent ..... Rupert Holliday Evans Inspector ..... David Reakes Box Office Lady ..... Katherine Weare Author JB Priestley Adapt...
Jessie Matthews and Sir John Gielgud sing "Three Wishes" in the 1933 Movie "The Good Companions".
The future looks bleak for The 'Dinky Doos' when their manager runs off with the funds and dwindling audiences force the theatre owner to close their show. However, a chance meeting of three strangers could bring about a big change in the fortunes of the little company. Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Written by J.B. Priestley, T.J. Morrison (screenplay) and John Whiting (additional dialogue). Starring Eric Portman, Celia Johnson and Hugh Griffith.
http://www.networkdvd.net/product_info.php?products_id=1408 Jan Francis leads a lively cast in Beiderbecke writer Alan Plater's definitive adaptation of J.B. Priestley's celebrated novel. Charting the rollercoaster fortunes of a struggling concert party, Francis co-stars alongside Bryan Pringle, John Stratton and Moody and Pegg's Judy Cornwell, with guest appearances by Roy Kinnear, Denis Lawson and Nigel Hawthorne. Priestley's defining work -- and one which established him as a national figure -- The Good Companions has been a mainstay of English literature since its initial publication in 1929. Jess Oakroyd, discontented with his home, his work and his football team, tears up his Insurance Card and disappears into the night. He intends to go to Nuneaton, but instead finds himself on th...
http://networkonair.com/shop/1801-good-companions-the.html Adapted from J.B. Priestley's famous novel charting the ups and downs of a struggling touring concert party, this endearing musical comedy features an outstanding array of British talent -- including Eric Portman, Celia Johnson, Hugh Griffith, Joyce Grenfell, Thora Hird and Anthony Newley. The Good Companions is presented here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. The future looks bleak for The 'Dinky Doos' when their manager runs off with the funds and dwindling audiences force the theatre owner to close their show. Young Susie Dean is particularly disconsolate: the talented singer and dancer is sure the setback will mean an end to her theatrical career. However, a chanc...
The Good Companions by J B Priestley JB Priestley's classic story of a 1929 concert party tour charts new adventures for factory worker Jess Oakroyd and newly independent Miss Trant. Starring Ralph Ineson, Fenella Woolgar and Roy Hudd. Dramatised by John Retallack. Jess Oakroyd ..... Ralph Ineson Miss Trant ..... Fenella Woolgar Jimmy Nunn ..... Roy Hudd Inigo Jollifant ..... Oliver Gomm Susie Dean ..... Isabella Inchbald Mr Ridvers ..... Gerard McDermott Mrs Joe ..... Ellie Darvill Monte Mortimer ..... Clive Hayward Leonard Oakroyd ..... Gary Duncan Mr Joe ..... Philip Bretherton Morton Mitcham ..... Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong Jerry Jerningham ..... Adam Fitzgerald Agent ..... Rupert Holliday Evans Inspector ..... David Reakes Box Office Lady ..... Katherine Weare Author JB Priestley Adapt...
Unused / unissued material - Leicester Square, London. World Charity Premiere of 'Good Companions' attended by lots of celebrities. GV Outside of cinema. LS Warners Cinema, pan down to film title. LS Crowds outside cinema. LS Crowds outside cinema. MS Car arriving at cinema. MS Singer Edrich Connor arriving. VS of Tommy Steel arriving. MS Croft twins. VS of guests arriving in the cinema foyer. LS Edrich Connor with Tommy Steele panning to Croft twins. LS Petula Clark, CU Clark. MS Clark and photographers. MS Mantovani. MS Thora Hird. MS Crowd in foyer. MS Edana Romney and Edgar Lustgarten. MS Yvonne Furneaux. MS W Cartlidge, General Manager of ABC. MS TV personality MacDonald Hobley with wife. MS Bill Kerr. MS Mr and Mrs Sherran (Managing Director, National Trade Press) pan over to B...
The Good Companions is a 1933 British backstage comedy directed by Victor Saville starring Jessie Matthews, John Gielgud and Edmund Gwenn. It is based on the 1929 novel of the same name by JB Priestley. Gielgud had appeared in the 1931 theatrical version of the novel, written by Priestley, which had ran for more than three hundred performances in the West End. Adele Dixon who had played Susie Dean on stage was replaced by Jessie Matthews. It was shot at the Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfred Junge while the costumes were by Gordon Conway. Henry Ainley narrated the prologue. This entire film is available to watch at: https://bit.ly/goodcomp1
Unissued / Unused material. 'The Good Companions' Car. London. LS actress Janette Scott waiting for octaped car. MS Janette shaking hands with a man. CU of her waving. MS octaped car. CU notice advertising the film 'The Good Companions' on side of car, pan to another sign 'Danger no engine' on back of cyclists. LS Scott listening through headphones attached to car. LS as she waves goodbye. CU driver. MS as band play on car. Various shots of three cyclists with sign on back saying 'Danger no engine'. Tracking shot of car. LS car going along Park Lane and Piccadilly. Various shots at Mansion House, the Mayor's deputy looks at car as it draws up. The Good Companions letter from Mayor of Bradford is handed over. MS crowd. FILM ID:2862.27 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE O...
The Good Companions (1933) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024073/
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Support the Channel here: https://buymeacoffee.com/old.time.radio Check out our sister channel OTR Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGm0d2xfw44X8eHKDe1Af5w "The Good Companions" by J.B. Priestley is a picaresque novel written in 1929. The story is set in England and follows the intertwined adventures of three main characters: Jess Oakroyd, a discontented factory worker; Elizabeth Trant, an independent upper-middle-class spinster; and Inigo Jollifant, a dissatisfied schoolteacher and pianist. Their paths cross as they join a failing concert party, "The Dinky Doos," which is rejuvenated into "The Good Companions." Throughout their journey, they face various adventures and challenges, leading to their eventual disbandment.
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.
Jessie Margaret Matthews was born in a flat behind a butcher's shop at 94 Berwick Street, Soho, London, in relative poverty, the seventh of sixteen children (of whom eleven survived) of a fruit-and-vegetable seller. She took dancing lessons as a child in a room above the local public house at 22 Berwick Street.
She went on stage on 29 December 1919, aged 12, in Bluebell in Fairyland, by Seymour Hicks, music by Walter Slaughter and lyrics by Charles Taylor, at the Metropolitan Music Hall, Edgware Road, London, as a child dancer; she made her film debut in 1923 in the silent film The Beloved Vagabond.
Matthews was in the chorus in Charlot's Review of 1924 in London. She went with the show to New York, where she was also understudy to the star, Gertrude Lawrence. The show moved to Toronto, and when Lawrence fell ill she took over the role and was given great reviews. Matthews was acclaimed in the United Kingdom as a dancer and as the first performer of numerous popular songs of the 1920s and 1930s, including "A Room with a View" by Noël Coward and "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" by Cole Porter. 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". Her British studio was reluctant to let go of its biggest name, which resulted in offers for her to work in Hollywood being repeatedly rejected.
All the desperate people in this town
Are coming out tonight
They'll be here soon
They want to be here with us in our glorious times
And when they start to laugh, we'll laugh too
But when they start to cry, they'll ruin it for everyone
We'll ask them to leave
And they'll pull out their knives and kill us all
They're here now
Close the gate Lock the door
Bring the lights down Put the light s out Close the bar
Maybe they'll give up and go next door
Lets pretend we're gone Pretend we're not here
Let's pretend we're gone
I'm too strong now I can't lose
I try but I can't lose
I stole everything from you
I stole your disaster from you
I can't give it back
Este recuerdo guarda su alma
Su alma guarda esta tumba
Dios guarda su cuerpo
Su cuerpo guardo su aliento
Behold the breath of the dragon
Mira el brillo del cuchillo
All the desperate people in this town
Are coming out tonight