Matthews is as fun as she is funny and her movies are happy movies.įollowing is a bit about each of those Jessie Matthews titles I’ve caught in the time since covering Evergreen last year: There Goes the Bride (1932) It does more than just make the viewer fall in love with her, we really like her, even if she can be a bit mischievous at times.

Jessie Matthews exudes a cheerful energy in every one of her movie roles. While Matthews credits Saville with never allowing her physical charms to become vulgar, she forgets to credit the buoyant personality she puts across on screen as what most enhances her beauty. Though her teeth may be caricatured more often than those big beautiful eyes, it really works when she widens those peepers for comic effect in her movies. Her especially gorgeous legs really toss you into a trance when she swings them in some of her more erotic dance moves. In her autobiography Jessie credited director Victor Saville with creating the “Our Jessie” screen personality, described by Matthews as “the little girl from Soho, the waif with the great big eyes, who had become a sex symbol, the ‘pin-up’ with the legs, who adorned the bedroom walls of so many young men” (147), though I still found my Jessie in abundance in the pre-Saville title There Goes the Bride from 1932.įound via the Lantern search engine inside Motion Picture Daily, October 10, 1934, in promotion of Evergreen. While none of the other movies have quite measured up to Evergreen by my estimation, they each offer enough to hook any potential fan on the musical-comedy star referred to as “Princess Personality Herself” in the advertisement shown just below. I’ve watched it at least half a dozen times since my post last year and remain every bit transfixed by the individual musical numbers as I do Matthews’ Harriet Green, senior and junior. I’ve enjoyed each of those four Jessie Matthews movies immensely, though I still point to Evergreen as my favorite and assume it will always remain so. So far I’ve picked up four of the DVDs and will cover each movie in brief below. Shortly after my Evergreen discovery VCI Entertainment released several Jessie Matthews movies to DVD as part of their Rank Collection, though unfortunately Evergreen is not one of those titles. I still have to pick up a copy of the Michael Thornton biography and expect to do so eventually. I’ve taken it slow but steady with Matthews beginning by reading her autobiography and viewing the documentary somebody has very kindly posted to YouTube. RareFilmsOnDVD.Com has been around since 2003 and will gladly help you find and watch those movies you can't find elsewhere! Make RareFilmsOnDVD.Com your one-stop holiday shopping for all your rare and classic films on DVD needs.It’s been a little over a year since I gushed over my belated discovery of Jessie Matthews in Evergreen (1934) and I’ve quietly continued to celebrate my little find ever since. Syn The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh 1964, Drop Dead Fred, Rad 1986, Gleaming The Cube 1989, Bebes Kids, Exit To Eden, Cinderella 1965 Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Pan 1960 Mary Martin, The Court Jester 1956 Danny Kaye, Wicked the Musical Broadway 2007, Shirley Valentine 1989, Scarlett 1994, Max Dugan Returns, The Boyfriend School aka Don’t Tell Her It’s Me 1990, and Folks 1992. Some hard-to-find, popular and out-of-print titles on DVD you will find on this site are: Song Of The South DVD 1946 for sale, Dr. Our prices are solely based on the cost of postage and production.

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