Jessie Matthews: The Dancing Divinity
Jessie Matthews (1907-1981) was a major British stage and screen star of the 20th century, who also worked in the States. Raised in poor circumstances, Matthews made her professional debut at age 12 as a dancer in Seymour Hicks' Bluebell in Fairyland (1919) at the Metropolitan Music Hall. Her breakthrough year was 1923, when she […]