Jessie Matthews
Birthday
1907/03/11
Day of death
1981/08/19 (74 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also know as
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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. 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 rej...Read more
Acting
(1934) Waltzes from Vienna
as Resi Ebezeder
(1958) Tom Thumb
as Anne
(1933) The Man from Toronto
as Leslie Farrar
(1933) The Good Companions
as Susie Dean
(1936) It's Love Again
as Elaine Bradford / Mrs. Smythe-Smythe
(1934) Evergreen
as Harriet Green
(1932) There Goes the Bride
as Annette Marquand
(1935) First a Girl
as Elizabeth
(1938) Sailing Along
as Kay Martin
(1937) Head Over Heels
as Jeanne Colbert
(1944) Candles at Nine
as Dorothea Capper, the Heiress
(1938) Climbing High
as Diana Castle
(1947) Life Is Nothing Without Music
as Herself
(1937) Gangway
as Pat Wayne
(1932) The Midshipmaid
as Celia Newbiggin
(1979) The Winter Ladies
as Lady Bluett
(1944) Victory Wedding
as Narrator
(1943) Forever and a Day
as Mildred Trimble
(1931) Out of the Blue
as Tommy Tucker
(1978) The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Mrs. Tinsdale
(1978) Edward & Mrs. Simpson
as Aunt Bessie Merryman
(1933) Friday the Thirteenth
as Millie
(1987) Catch a Fallen Star
as Self
(1978) Edward and Mrs Simpson
as Aunt Bessie Merryman
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as Hazel