Jessie Matthews

Person · Open Library

Works

3

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Film & TV

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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Country

US

Active from

1991

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,982

Total plays

13,741

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.

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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

Award

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Image

Jessie Matthews 1917.jpg

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