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.
Early life
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.
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.
Ted Heath – Big Band Percussion (1968) – an instrumental version, the first eight bars of which were used for many years as the opening theme to BBC One's children's news programme John Craven's Newsround
Jessie Matthews - "It's Love Again" ('36) - climactic number
- I'm guessing they used hanging miniatures. But check out that BODY-STOCKING! Mrs Dale - eat your heart out! And there's MORE on this channel...
published: 23 Aug 2010
Jessie Matthews - "Dancing On The Ceiling"
Jessie Matthews sings "Dancing on the Ceiling" from the 1934 Gaumont British musical film, "Evergreen"
published: 21 Nov 2019
Daddy Wouldn't Buy me a Bow Wow - Jessie Matthews - AI Enhanced
Colourized and Upscaled with Facial Refinement - AVCLabs Video Enhancer
published: 14 Mar 2023
Jessie Matthews - "It's Love Again" ('36) - exotic dance number
Sexy and FUN! And there's MORE on this channel...
published: 23 Aug 2010
Jessie Matthews - Your Heart Skips a beat - Colourised
Jessie Matthews sings "Your Heart Skips a beat" from the 1937 British Musical "Sailing Along"
published: 29 Jul 2020
Jessie Matthews - You'll Never Know
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
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published: 16 May 2023
It's Love Again (1936) | Full Movie | Jessie Matthews | Robert Young | Sonnie Hale
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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
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published: 12 Jun 2021
Waltzes from Vienna 1933 with Jessie Matthews, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock — HD Upconvert
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
published: 11 May 2021
Jessie Matthews (1907-1981) Portrait BBC 1981
"Catch A Fallen Star" - A Portrait of Jessie Matthews BBC 1981
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 t...
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.
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 st...
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.
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 gossi...
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
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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
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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 opere...
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
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
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
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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
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.
Early life
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.
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.
(Richard Rodgers/Lorentz Hart) Johnny could only sing one note And the note he sang was this: Ah Poor Johnny one note sang out with gusto And just overloaded the place Poor Johnny one note he yelled willy-nilly Until he was blue in the face For holding one not was his ace Couldn't hear the brass Couldn't hear the drum He was in a class By himself, by gum Poor Johnny one note got in Aida Indeed a great chance to be brave He took his one note Howled like the North Wind Brought forth wind that made critics rave While Verdi turned round in his grave!Couldn't hear the flute Or the big trombone Everyone was mute Johnny stood alone Sing Johnny one note Sing out with gusto and just overwhelm all the crowd Couldn't hear the flute Or the big trombone Everyone was mute Johnny stood alone Couldn't hear the brass Couldn't hear the drum He was in a class By himself, by gum Sing Johnny one note Sing out with gusto and just overwhelm all the crowd