- published: 23 Aug 2010
- views: 20847
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.
Jessie Matthews sings one of her most famous songs, When You,ve Got A Little Springtime In Your Heart. A final farewell from a 30s superstar.
From the movie: GANGWAY 1937 Here Jessie dances with I believe Warren Jenkins. Another great example of Jessie Matthews wonderful combination of talent and charm.
Struggling dancing girl in London of 1934 impersonates her once famous mother, which leads to legal entanglements and a smashing success on stage. Jessie Matthews, Sonny Hale; music: Rodgers & Hart. On American equipment, playback speed should be reduced to 80% (24/30).
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 sings 'Getting To Know You' from The King & I (1966). Sorry about the sound quality in places, it's from a very scratchy old LP. Footage is from her musical comedies of the 1930s, including There Goes The Bride, Evergreen, The Good Companions and The Man From Toronto. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Matthews http://www.btinternet.com/~judyin.london/overmyshoulder/jmhome.htm http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0560056/ http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/449354/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-445576/Jessie-Matthews-The-Diva-Debauchery.html
Me singing live at the Brewers bar at the Mount with my Dad. Pixie Lott's hit song "Cry me out". Enjoi XXXX
Jessie Matthews recorded live in Hobart, Tasmania in 1953, accompanied by Heather Murdoch on piano, singing the song she debuted twenty-five years earlier - Let's Do It by Cole Porter. Jessie was having an affair with a Tasmanian businessman at this time and came down to Hobart from her temporary home in Melbourne, where she was running a drama school. "Out of the blue I was asked to fly to Tasmania and there adjudicate in a Drama Festival to be held in Hobart... The tall contemporary buildings rose against the soft green hills and apple orchards of Hobart. 'Everyone in town's here today,' the Mayor told me proudly as he escorted me to my seat on the platform." I think the song must have been recorded at the ABC radio studios in Elizabeth Street. The song is set to photos of...
A selection of music (with a very lively start) performed by film star Jessie Matthews, played by Horace Finch at the 3/13 Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ. http://www.facebook.com/TCCOC
Jessie Matthews dancing to Kate Bush's b-side Ne t'enfuis pas (Don't Fly Away). The dance is from Jessie's film 'Head Over Heels' (1937), set in Paris. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028983/ Lyrics to the song in French, and English translation, are here: http://gaffa.org/sensual/l_ntfp.html
Jessie Matthews sings 'Getting To Know You' from The King & I (1966). Sorry about the sound quality in places, it's from a very scratchy old LP. Footage is from her musical comedies of the 1930s, including There Goes The Bride, Evergreen, The Good Companions and The Man From Toronto. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Matthews http://www.btinternet.com/~judyin.london/overmyshoulder/jmhome.htm http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0560056/ http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/449354/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-445576/Jessie-Matthews-The-Diva-Debauchery.html
Sarah Brightman performing "Dancing On The Ceiling" in the style of Jessie Matthews at the Royal Variety Performance, 1985. Andrew Lloyd Webber planned to produce a TV biopic of Jessie Matthews starring Sarah, but the plans eventually fell through. This is a very rare glimpse of what might have been.
Words & Music by Sam Coslow Performed by Jessie Matthews From the film: It's Love Again (1936)
My LIVE version of Erykah Badu's song "Tryrone." Please subscribe to my channel, and comment on this video...
I was inspired by Allen Stone and Corrine Bailey Rae's versions of this Bob Marley Classic, So I decided to have a Live Jam and well...Here is the end product. Like, Subscribe and Share please.
Jessie Matthews, with dancing partner Cyril Wells, from the film 'It's Love Again' (1936), dancing to the Song of Solomon by Kate Bush from The Red Shoes album (1993). Other clips are from 'Friday the Thirteenth' (1933) co-starring Ralph Richardson.
Stars: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Muriel Aked Director: Victor Saville At one minute to midnight on Friday the 13th, a London bus driver peers through his rain swept windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey!
Struggling dancing girl in London of 1934 impersonates her once famous mother, which leads to legal entanglements and a smashing success on stage. Jessie Matthews, Sonny Hale; music: Rodgers & Hart. On American equipment, playback speed should be reduced to 80% (24/30).
Hannah Graham is still missing, but Jesse Matthew is in custody and now linked to the death of Cassandra Morton. We look at the developing case, plus the murder of realtor Beverly Carter, the man who broke through the secret service in an attack on President Obama, Jodi Arias’ retrial, and the strange news of a beheading at an Oklahoma food bank--all on this episode of Crime Time with guest, Jim Clemente. GUEST BIO: Jim Clemente is a retired FBI agent and current advisor, writer and producer for the TV series "Criminal Minds." A graduate of Fordham University School of Law, Jim was the head of the Child Sex Crimes Prosecution Team in Bronx County for the New York City Law Department. As a result of undercover work that led to the imprisonment of a child sex offender, Clemente was recru...
Trial of Dr. Charles and Kimberly Matthews for underage drinking at their Daughter's Wedding, where Jonathan JT Taylor, 18, lost his life in a drunk driving . Popular content related to Sentence & Verdict. Charles and Kimberly Matthews are charged with providing alcohol for an 18-year-old, who then died while driving drunk. Investigators say it happened last year . Morgan Harrington's family waited six years before Jesse Matthew, who's also accused of killing Hannah Graham, was indicted in the murder of their daughter.
Jessie Matthews: During the 1920s and '30s she was a major star of stage, screen, radio and records. She was a reluctant icon though and in her final television interview before she passed away Jessie remarked, "I never wanted any of this..."
The father of Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. said in an interview with CBS 6 that police have the wrong guy.
Interview with Jesse Matthews of Massillon, Ohio, in 1989
A selection of music (with a very lively start) performed by film star Jessie Matthews, played by Horace Finch at the 3/13 Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ. http://www.facebook.com/TCCOC
Jessie Matthews dancing to Kate Bush's b-side Ne t'enfuis pas (Don't Fly Away). The dance is from Jessie's film 'Head Over Heels' (1937), set in Paris. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028983/ Lyrics to the song in French, and English translation, are here: http://gaffa.org/sensual/l_ntfp.html
Jessie Matthews 2 of 3 part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLBBP6O7JY8 part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLBBP6O7JY8 from 1987
Words & Music by Sam Coslow Performed by Jessie Matthews From the film: It's Love Again (1936)
Sarah Brightman performing "Dancing On The Ceiling" in the style of Jessie Matthews at the Royal Variety Performance, 1985. Andrew Lloyd Webber planned to produce a TV biopic of Jessie Matthews starring Sarah, but the plans eventually fell through. This is a very rare glimpse of what might have been.
Aline Waites, interviewed by Elise Harris, talks about her new book She That Plays the Queen. Aline is an actor and writer, known for her role as Mrs Dale's daughter on the radio series Mrs Dale's Diary starring Jesse Matthews. She also co-authored The Illustrated Victorian Songbook with Robin Hunter. She That Plays the Queen is the second novel by Aline Waites. Available now. http://amzn.to/2ntHfFl Her first novel was A Thing Called Joe, also available.