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Jessie Matthews
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English actress, singer and dancer (1907–1981)
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Vinony files it under 1907 births, 1981 deaths and 20th-century English actresses.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
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- Over My Shoulder
- Over my shoulder
- Over my shoulder
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London, England, UK
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…
Known for
- Catch a Fallen Star — Self1987
- 40 Minutes1981
- Tales of the Unexpected: A Picture of a Place — Hazel1980
- The Winter Ladies — Lady Bluett1979
- Tales of the Unexpected — Hazel1979
- The Hound of the Baskervilles — Mrs. Tinsdale1978
- Edward & Mrs. Simpson — Aunt Bessie Merryman1978
- Edward and Mrs Simpson — Aunt Bessie Merryman1978
- Nanny's Boy — Nanny Webster1977
- Jubilee 1977 — Nancy Webster1977
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Jessie Matthews, OBE (11 March 1907 – 19 August 1981) was an English actress, dancer and singer of the 1930s, whose career continued into the post-war period. Jessie Margaret Matthews was born in Soho, London, in relative poverty, the seventh of sixteen children (of whom eleven survived) of a fruit and vegetable seller. She debuted on stage on 29 December 1919, aged 12, in Bluebell in Fairyland, by Seymour Hicks, music by Charles Taylor, at the Metropolitan Music Hall <a href="https://www.last.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jessie
- Family name
- Matthews
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Soho
- Place of death
- Eastcote
- Spouse
- Sonnie Hale
- Occupation
- film director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Jessie Matthews 1917.jpg
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- name in native language
- Jessie Matthews
- date of birth
- 1907-03-11
- date of death
- 1981-08-19
- start of work period
- 1923-00-00
- Commons category
- Jessie Matthews
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
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