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Matthews took dancing lessons as a child in a room above a local public house at 22 Berwick Street. [8] She first went on stage on 29 December 1919, aged 12, in Bluebell in Fairyland , by Seymour Hicks , with music by Walter Slaughter and lyrics by Charles Taylor , at The Metropolitan Music Hall , Edgware Road , London, as a child dancer.
Across the Atlantic, in the United Kingdom, Jessie Matthews was making waves in both film and theater, becoming an icon of her era. Born on March 11, 1907, in London, Jessie Matthews came from a working-class background.
Aug 21, 1981 · She was 74 years old. Miss Matthews won fame on three continents before World War II as a singer and as one of the most graceful and athletic dancers of stage and screen.
Jessie Matthews (1907 - 1981) She was "The Dancing Divinity" - the most potent icon of 30s cinema. She had what audiences wanted, but when the decade ended, so did her career. Born in Soho she grew up wanting to dance and by her early twenties she was starring in the West End and on Broadway.
She was first choice to co-star in A Damsel in Distress (1937), playing the part which eventually went to the non-dancing Joan Fontaine. Was a personal friend of Cole Porter who had written many of his most famous songs in honor of her.
- March 11, 1907
- August 19, 1981
Mar 22, 2013 · Evergreen began life on the London stage in 1930 as the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical Ever Green (correct, two words) with story by Benn Levy. Jessie Matthews and Sonnie Hale also starred in the stage hit, but the Gaumont-British film is said to have only retained a few elements of the theatrical version.
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Jessie Matthews was a gamine, graceful dancer, with a sweet, pure-toned singing voice, and waif-like sex appeal, who embodied 1930s style. One of 11 children of a Soho costermonger, Matthews enjoyed dancing from an early age, and elocution lessons created her distinctive "plummy" accent.
