Jessie Matthews - Фильмы

Jessie Matthews, OBE (11 марта 1907 – 19 августа 1981) было то, что an English actress, dancer and singer of the 1920s and 1930s, whose career continued into the post-period. After a string of hit мюзиклов stage and films in the mid-1930s, Мэтьюз developed a following in the USA where she was дублированный "The Dancing Divinity". Назад британская студия что reluctant to let go of its biggest name, which resulted in offers for her to work in Hollywood being repeatedly rejected. Matthews' first major film role что в Out of the Blue (1931). She was in two films directed by Albert de Courville, The миделе Maid (1932) and There Goes the Bride (1932). Мэтьюз enjoyed great success with The Good Companions (1933) directed by Victor Saville, although it was more of an ensemble film and The Man from Toronto (1933). Waltzes from Vienna (1933) was an музеев directed by Alfred Hitchcock, followed by Friday the Thirteenth (1933). She was in the film version of Evergreen (1934) which featured the newly composed песню Over My Shoulder which was to go on to become Matthews' personal theme song later giving its title to her autobiography and to a 21st-century musical stage show of her life. She was in First a Girl (1935) as a cross dresser, then It's Love Again (1936), where she had an American co-star Роберт Янг. Exhibitors voted her the sixth biggest star in the country that year. Мэтьюз started to appear in films directed by husband Sonnie Hale: трап (1937), Head over Heels (1937) and Sailing Along (1938). She did Climbing High (1938) directed by Carol Reed. В 1938 she was the fourth biggest British star. Сюда warbling voice cheeks and round made her a familiar and much-loved personality to British theatre and film audiences at the beginning of World War II. She was one of many stars in Forever and a Day (1943). Her popularity waned in the 1940s after several years' absence from the screen followed by an Adequate триллер, Candles at Nine (1944). Пост был audiences associated with her a hectic world of pre-war luxury that was now seen as obsolete в строгость-era Britain. В the late 1940s she ran an amateur theatre group at the Theatre Royal в олдершоте. After a few false starts as a straight actress she played том Thumb's mother в 1958 the children's film, and during the 1960s new found fame when she took over the leading role of Mary in the Dale BBC's long-running daily radio soap, The Dales, formerly Mrs dale's Diary. Live theatre and variety shows remained the mainstay of Matthews' work through the 1950s and 1960s, successful with tours of Australia and South Africa interspersed with periods of less glamorous welcome but work in British провинциальный театр и pantomimes.