Jessie Matthews

Jessie Matthews, OBE (11 de Marzo De 1907 – 19 De Agosto de 1981), lo que en Inglés actriz, bailarina and singer of the 1920s and 1930s, whose career continued into the post era period. After a string of hit stage musicales and films in the mid-1930s, Matthews developed a following in the USA, where she lo apodado "The Dancing Divinity". Her British studio lo reluctant to let go of its biggest nombre, which resulted en offers for her to work en Hollywood being repeatedly rejected. Matthews' first major película role lo que en Out of the Blue (1931). "She was two película dirigida por Albert de Courville, The Midshipmaid (1932) and There Goes the Bride (1932). Matthews disfrutado de great success with The Good Companions (1933) dirigida por Victor Saville, although it was more of a conjunto de film and The Man from Toronto (1933). Waltzes from Vienna (1933) en lo que a operetta dirigida por Alfred Hitchcock, followed by Friday the Thirteenth (1933). She lo que está en la película, la versión de Evergreen (1934), que contó con el recientemente integrada por la canción Over My Shoulder which was to go on, to become Matthews' personal theme song, later dar its title to her " autobiography and to a 21st-century musical stage show of her life. "She was in First a Girl (1935) as a cross dresser, then It's Love Again (1936), where she had an American co-estrella Robert Young. Exhibidor voted her the sixth biggest star in the country that year. Matthews started to appear en la película dirigida por el marido, Sonnie Hale: Pasarela (1937), Head over Heels (1937) y Vela Along (1938). She did Escalada de Alta (1938) dirigida por Carol Reed. En 1938 she was the fourth biggest British star. Her warbling voice and round mejillas made her a familiar and much-me encantó la personalidad to British theatre and film audiencias at the beginning of World War II " She was one of many stars en Forever and a Day (1943). Her popularity waned en the 1940s after several years' absence from the screen followed by a unsatisfactory thriller, Candles at Nine (1944). Post-guerra audiencias associated with her a world of hectic la pre-guerra luxury that was now lagos as obsoletos en austerity-era gran Bretaña. En the late 1940s she ran a los aficionados theatre group at the Theatre Royal en Aldershot. After a few false starts as a straight actriz, 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 en the BBC's long-running daily radio soap, The Dales, formerly Mrs Dale's Diary. Live theatre and variety shows se mantuvo the mainstay of Matthews' work through the 1950s 1960s and with successful tours of Australia and South Africa interspersed with periods of less glamorous but welcome trabajo en el British provincial theatre and pantomimes.