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.
London Pride, a Very Large Crude Carrier built for London & Overseas Freighters in 1971 and scrapped in 1983
London Pride, a Suezmax oil tanker built for London & Overseas Freighters in 1993, bought by Frontline Shipping in 1997 and thereafter called the Front Pride
London Pride is the flagship beer of Fuller's Brewery. It is the UK's best-selling cask-conditioned ale, and is also sold worldwide in bottled form.
London Pride has been brewed right beside the River Thames at Fuller's Griffin Brewery since the 1950s, and is considered by many to be an intrinsic part of London life.
History
London Pride takes its name from the Saxifraga × urbium flower. The flower famously provided shoots of recovery on the bombed sites left by the London Blitz of the early 1940s, and as such holds great symbolism for Londoners. The flower was nicknamed London Pride, and the beer followed closely afterwards.
Awards
London Pride has won a host of awards since its launch, including Champion Beer of Britain at the CAMRA awards in 1979. This particular award has also been given to ESB and Chiswick Bitter, earning Fuller's the unique distinction of being the only brewery to take the crown with three separate beers.
London Pride has also won CAMRA’s Champion Best Bitter title twice (1979 and 1995) and was named Supreme Champion at the 2000 International Beer and Cider competition.
She has toured internationally with The Weeknd and was also nominated for the Sound of 2014 award by the BBC and an MTV Brand New Nominee in 2014. On May 3, 2014, Banks was dubbed as an "Artist to Watch" by FoxWeekly.
Early life
Jillian Rose Banks was born in Orange County, California. Banks started writing songs at the age of fifteen. She taught herself piano when she received a keyboard from a friend to help her through her parents' divorce. She says she "felt very alone and helpless. I didn't know how to express what I was feeling or who to talk to."
Career
2013–present: Breakthrough and Goddess
Banks used the audio distribution website SoundCloud to put out her music before securing a record deal. Her friend Lily Collins used her contacts to pass along her music to people in the industry; specifically Katy Perry's DJ Yung Skeeter, and she began working with the label Good Years Recordings. Her first official single, called "Before I Ever Met You" was released in February 2013. The song which had been on a private SoundCloud page ended up being played by BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe. Banks released her first EP Fall Over by IAMSOUND Records and Good Years Recordings.Billboard called her a "magnetic writer with songs to obsess over." Banks released her second EP called London by Harvest Records and Good Years Recordings in 2013 to positive reviews from music critics, receiving a 78 from Metacritic. Her song "Waiting Game" from the EP was featured in the 2013 Victoria's Secret holiday commercial.
London and the Thames were named in 1793 by Lord Simcoe, who proposed the site for the capital of Upper Canada. The first European settlement was between 1801 and 1804 by Peter Hagerman. The village was founded in 1826 and incorporated in 1855. Since then, London has grown to be the largest Southwestern Ontario municipality and Canada's 11th largest municipality, having annexed many of the smaller communities that surrounded it.
London is a regional centre of health care and education, being home to the University of Western Ontario, Fanshawe College, and several hospitals. The city hosts a number of musical and artistic exhibits and festivals, which contribute to its tourism industry, but its economic activity is centred on education, medical research, insurance, and information technology. London's university and hospitals are among its top ten employers. London lies at the junction of Highway 401 and 402, connecting it to Toronto, Windsor, and Sarnia. It also has an international airport, train and bus station.
Charles Dickens' works are especially associated with London which is the setting for many of his novels. These works do not just use London as a backdrop but are about the city and its character.
Dickens described London as a Magic lantern, a popular entertainment of the Victorian era, which projected images from slides. Of all Dickens' characters 'none played as important a role in his work as that of London itself', it fired his imagination and made him write. In a letter to John Forster, in 1846, Dickens wrote 'a day in London sets me up and starts me', but outside of the city, 'the toil and labour of writing, day after day, without that magic lantern is IMMENSE!!'
However, of the identifiable London locations that Dickens used in his work, scholar Clare Pettitt notes that many no longer exist, and, while 'you can track Dickens' London, and see where things were, but they aren't necessarily still there'.
In addition to his later novels and short stories, Dickens' descriptions of London, published in various newspapers in the 1830s, were released as a collected edition Sketches by Boz in 1836.
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
Available with multiple subtitle language options. Go to settings ⚙️ to select your preferred language.
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.
London Pride has been handed down to us. London Pride is a flower that's free. London Pride means our own dear town to us, And our pride it for ever will be. Woa, Liza, See the coster barrows, Vegetable marrows And the fruit piled high. Woa, Liza, Little London sparrows, Covent Garden Market where the costers cry. Cockney feet Mark the beat of history. Every street Pins a memory down. Nothing ever can quite replace The grace of London Town. INTERLUDE There's a little city flower every spring unfailing Growing in the crevices by some London railing, Though it has a Latin name, in town and country-side We in England call it London Pride. London Pride has been handed down to us. London Pride is a flower that's free. London Pride means our own dear town to us, And our pride it for ever will be. Hey, lady, When the day is dawning See the policeman yawning On his lonely beat. Gay lady, Mayfair in the morning, Hear your footsteps echo in the empty street. Early rain And the pavement's glistening. All Park Lane In a shimmering gown. Nothing ever could break or harm The charm of London Town. INTERLUDE In our city darkened now, street and square and crescent, We can feel our living past in our shadowed present, Ghosts beside our starlit Thames Who lived and loved and died Keep throughout the ages London Pride. London Pride has been handed down to us. London Pride is a flower that's free. London Pride means our own dear town to us, And our pride it for ever will be. Grey city Stubbornly implanted, Taken so for granted For a thousand years. Stay, city, Smokily enchanted, Cradle of our memories and hopes and fears. Every Blitz Your resistance Toughening, From the Ritz To the Anchor and Crown, Nothing ever could override