Jessie Matthews

5.293

Le Chant du Danube

Mar 15, 1934

Le Chant du Danube

1934 81 min 41 vues

Johann Strauss fils (Esmond Knight) joue du violon dans l'orchestre de son père, Johann Strauss I (Edmund Gwenn), mais n'est pas encouragé à composer par celui-ci. Strauss donne tout de même des leçons de chant à la fille du pâtissier, Rasi (Jessie Matthews) à qui il dédicace toutes ses chansons. Puis, il fait la rencontre de la comtesse (Fay Compton), qui a composé quelques vers et lui demande de l'aider pour les traduire en musique. Quand son mari le prince (Frank Vosper) en entend parler par une servante, il débarque dans la salle de musique en furie, mais le nom de Strauss le calme un peu. La comtesse tombe peu à peu sous le charme de Strauss Jr. Avec un ami, elle complote pour que Strauss père reporte sa représentation et que la pièce de Strauss, Le Beau Danube bleu, puisse être présentée devant une assistance. Il conduit lui-même la valse, et devient la sensation de Vienne.

History

6.2

Les Aventures de Tom Pouce

Dec 04, 1958

Les Aventures de Tom Pouce

1958 98 min 65 vues

Il était une fois et autrefois, un bûcheron surnommé « l’intègre » qui donnait les premiers coups de hache à un magnifique chêne de la forêt lorsque la reine de celle-ci lui apparut afin qu’il épargne son arbre. En échange, elle exaucera trois vœux du bûcheron et de sa femme. Mais le couple dépense bêtement ses trois souhaits à cause d’un plat de choux et de saucisse. Leur rêve de toujours est d’avoir un enfant « même aussi petit qu’un pouce » qui profiterait de cette chambre garnie de jouets qu’ils ont aménagée en espérant en vain. La reine de la forêt, pas avare, leur réserve une surprise. Au petit matin, un minuscule garçon frappe à leur porte : c’est leur fils adoptif, Tom Pouce…

Music

4

The Man from Toronto

Jan 01, 1933

The Man from Toronto

1933 77 min 2 vues

According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to receive it; the two must marry within a year. To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love. However, when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.

Romance

5.8

The Good Companions

Feb 28, 1933

The Good Companions

1933 113 min 4 vues

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

Romance

6.2

It's Love Again

May 06, 1936

It's Love Again

1936 83 min 2 vues

Elaine 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.

Music

6.2

Evergreen

Apr 01, 1934

Evergreen

1934 94 min 9 vues

Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later, she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever.

Comedy

6.4

There Goes the Bride

Oct 25, 1932

There Goes the Bride

1932 79 min 5 vues

A 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...

Romance

6.2

First a Girl

Nov 07, 1935

First a Girl

1935 94 min 13 vues

First a Girl est le remake britannique du film allemand Viktor und Viktoria (1933).

Comedy

7

Sailing Along

Apr 15, 1938

Sailing Along

1938 80 min 3 vues

A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him.

Music

8

Head Over Heels

Feb 12, 1937

Head Over Heels

1937 84 min 1 vues

Legendary British musical-comedy favorite Jessie Matthews chalks up another winner with Head Over Heels in Love. The ever-charming Matthews plays Jeanne, a Parisian entertainer who manages to get herself in hot water with the French version of Actors' Equity and is forced to take a series of jobs under a series of assumed names. Meanwhile, a romantic triangle involving American film star Norma (Helen Whitney Bourne) and gangsters Pierre (Robert Flemyng) and Marcel (Louis Borrell) spells big trouble for all concerned -- including the plucky Jeanne. Highlighted by six sprightly song numbers, Head Over Heels in Love is our girl Jessie's vehicle all the way, and never mind the "main" plot. The film was directed by Sonnie Hale, who just so happened to be the star's husband.

5

Candles at Nine

Jan 01, 1944

Candles at Nine

1944 82 min 1 vues

A 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.

Mystery

6.5

La grande escalade

Oct 31, 1938

La grande escalade

1938 78 min 1 vues

Diana (Jessie Matthews) trouve un travail dans une agence de mode. Elle y fait la connaissance d’un riche et galant jeune homme, Nicky (Michael Redgrave) qui tombe immédiatement sous son charme. Afin de la séduire, il prend un pseudonyme pour travailler avec elle. Mais cette attention toute particulière du jeune homme attise la jalousie de sa prétendante la plus éprise : Lady Constance (Margaret Wyner), bien décidée à mettre le grappin sur le playboy, uniquement pour son argent.fre

Comedy

1

Life Is Nothing Without Music

Jan 01, 1947

Life Is Nothing Without Music

1947 35 min 1 vues

Jessie Matthews relives, with Alvar Liddell an appreciative listener, the delights of a holiday spent in Devonshire.

Documentary

7

Gangway

Aug 19, 1937

Gangway

1937 91 min 1 vues

Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.

Music

1

The Midshipmaid

Dec 08, 1932

The Midshipmaid

1932 84 min 1 vues

Sir 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.

Comedy

1

The Winter Ladies

May 15, 1979

The Winter Ladies

1979 56 min 1 vues

When a new arrival, a titled lady no less, arrives to shatter the genteel status quo of the St. Elmo Hotel, the entrenched residents are soon sharpening up their knitting needles for battle.

1

Victory Wedding

Jan 01, 1944

Victory Wedding

1944 20 min 1 vues

A young couple prepare for post-war marriage. Propaganda short encouraging women to contribute to the war effort by investing in war loans through National Savings.

Drama

7.2

Forever and a Day

Jan 21, 1943

Forever and a Day

1943 104 min 8 vues

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'américain Gates Trimble Pomfret est à Londres pendant le Blitz pour vendre la maison familiale ancestrale. Le locataire actuel, Leslie Trimble, tente de le dissuader de vendre en lui racontant les 140 ans d'histoire du lieu et les liens entre les familles Trimble et Pomfret.

Drama

1

Out of the Blue

Nov 05, 1931

Out of the Blue

1931 88 min 1 vues

Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, 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.

Music

4.6

Le chien des Baskervilles

Aug 01, 1978

Le chien des Baskervilles

1978 85 min 24 vues

Les Baskerville sont maudits. Selon la légende, chaque héritier de cette vieille famille est promis à une mort terrible, dévoré par un chien monstrueux et fantomatique. Sir Charles Baskerville a vécu dans la peur. Il est mort dans la peur. Les traces de pattes gigantesques retrouvées près de son cadavre alarment son ami, le docteur Mortimer, et le poussent à s'adresser au célébrissime détective du 221b Baker Street, à Londres....

Comedy

10

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

Nov 06, 1978

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

1978 350 min 1 vues

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.

TV Movie

6

Friday the Thirteenth

Nov 01, 1933

Friday the Thirteenth

1933 89 min 9 vues

It 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 windscreen 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 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.

Comedy

1

Catch a Fallen Star

Dec 23, 1987

Catch a Fallen Star

1987 40 min 1 vues

A portrait of Jessie Matthews, a once famous British singer, dancer and film star

1

Victory Wedding

Jan 01, 1944

Victory Wedding

1944 20 min 1 vues

A young couple prepare for post-war marriage. Propaganda short encouraging women to contribute to the war effort by investing in war loans through National Savings.

Drama

6.2

Edward and Mrs Simpson

Dec 20, 1978

Edward and Mrs Simpson

1978 min 5 vues

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intention to marry her.

Drama

6.7

Bizarre, bizarre

May 13, 1988

Bizarre, bizarre

1988 min 41 vues

Cette série est une anthologie d'histoires horrifiques et fantastiques inspirées de l'oeuvre de Roald Dahl.

Drama