Jessie Matthews Film Festival
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- DirectorGene GerrardStarsGene GerrardJessie MatthewsKay HammondImpoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker (Jessie Matthews) is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale (Gene Gerrard), but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela (Kay Hammond), who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.
- DirectorAlbert de CourvilleStarsJessie MatthewsOwen NaresCarol GoodnerA businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she refuses to tell him who she really is, her accuser decides to take her home where he can keep an eye on her until 12 o'clock the next day, the time at which she has calculated that it will be safe to tell the truth! But when his fiancée arrives unexpectedly and then his 'guest' is mistaken for her, it all gets rather embarrassing...
- DirectorAlbert de CourvilleStarsJessie MatthewsA.W. BaskcombBasil SydneySir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along, and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsJessie MatthewsEdmund GwennJohn GielgudMusical taken from J. B. Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsJessie MatthewsSonnie HaleMuriel AkedIt is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windshield as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus. Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes, and we discover the lives of all of the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con man with a hundred pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash, and past it, as some live and some die.
- DirectorSinclair HillStarsJessie MatthewsIan HunterFrederick KerrThe rich widow Leila disguises herself as a maid and falls in love with her employer Fergus who is a rich Canadian bachelor. Their wealth depends on each getting married within the next year. Whose fooling who in this comedy love affair?
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsEdmund GwennEsmond KnightJessie MatthewsThe story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsJessie MatthewsSonnie HaleBetty BalfourHarriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, has a guilty secret: She has a baby daughter, born out of wedlock. Harriet leaves her public and flees to South Africa to raise her daughter quietly. The years pass, and now her daughter, Harriet Hawkes, returns to London as a young show-biz hopeful. Tommy, a wily publicity man, knowing that young Harriet is a dead ringer for her famous mother, convinces a theater producer to star her in a new revue as none other than the original Harriet Green, miraculously untouched by old age. The ruse works too well: Now the public believes Harriet is a well-preserved 60-year-old and Tommy is her son. The deception is more than merely inconvenient, because now Harriet and Tommy have secretly fallen in love.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsJessie MatthewsSonnie HaleAnna LeeElizabeth dreams of being a music-hall singer. She gets to know Victor, that quite unexpectedly gets a female part in a music-hall number. He unfortunately finds himself voiceless, so, why wouldn't Elizabeth replace him in it?
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsJessie MatthewsRobert YoungSonnie HaleElaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in India, jumping out of airplanes, and generally driving men mad with her beauty. Since no one in London has ever seen Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Elaine decides to impersonate the lady, in hopes that the publicity will land her the big break she's been looking for.
- DirectorSonnie HaleStarsJessie MatthewsLouis BorelRobert FlemyngJeanne, loved by radio engineer Pierre, falls instead for Marcel, an idle womanizer.
- DirectorSonnie HaleStarsJessie MatthewsBarry MacKayNat PendletonNewspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
- DirectorSonnie HaleStarsJessie MatthewsBarry MacKayJack WhitingA young orphan woman and a young man were brought up together. She is a 'genius' dancer and he is a 'genius' stockbroker. They both realise their potential. After, they realise they are in love and decide to return to the sailing life.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsJessie MatthewsMichael RedgraveNoel MadisonWealthy young man Nicky (Sir Michael Redgrave) pretends to be poor to be close to model Diana (Jesse Matthews) though he's nearly engaged to aristocrat Lady Constance (Margaret Vyner).
- DirectorJohn HarlowStarsEliot MakehamBeatrix LehmannJohn SalewA rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her.