When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.
Jessie Matthews Quotes
For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting.
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| Birth: | 11th March, 1907 |
| Death: | 19th August, 1981 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Actress, Dancer, Singer |
About
Jessie Matthews was born in London, England. She was an English actress, dancer and singer. She took dancing lessons as a child in a room above the local public house at 22 Berwick Street. She 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. Her role in several films include: The Beloved Vagabond, Out of the Blue, The Midshipmaid, The Good Companions, Waltzes from Vienna, Evergreen, It's Love Again, Gangway, Climbing High, Forever and a Day, Candles at Nine, Tom Thumb, and The Hound of the Baskervilles. She is the author of book, entitled Over My Shoulder (Autobiography).
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