List of the best Jessie Matthews movies: Gangway(1937), First a Girl(1935), The Good Companions(1933), Sailing Along(1938), There Goes the Bride(1932), Friday the Thirteenth(1933), Evergreen(1934), Climbing High(1938), The Man From Toronto(1933), It's Love Again(1936), Waltzes From Vienna(1934), Tom Thumb(1958) ... ...
Musical
UK
1937
91 Minutes
Pat Wayne
Jessie Matthews Barry MacKay Nat Pendleton Alastair Sim Olive Blakeney Noel Madison Patrick Ludlow Graham Moffatt Danny Green Edmon Ryan Liane Ordeyne
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
Musical, Comedy
UK
1935
93 Minutes
Jessie Matthews Sonnie Hale Anna Lee Griffith Jones Alfred Drayton Constance Godridge Eddie Gray Martita Hunt Donald Stewart
aspiring actor aspiring actress talent scout young man princess trainer hilarious charming theater monte carlo, monaco audition performance cross-dressing success deception illness adventure transformation 1930s
Elizabeth 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?
Musical, Romance, Comedy
UK
1933
95 Minutes
Jessie Matthews Edmund Gwenn John Gielgud Mary Glynne Percy Parsons A.W. Baskcomb Florence Gregson Frank Pettingell
Musical taken from J.B. Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Musical, Romance
UK
1938
80 Minutes
Kay Martin
Jessie Matthews Roland Young Barry MacKay Jack Whiting Noel Madison Frank Pettingell Alastair Sim Athene Seyler Margaret Vyner William Dewhurst Peggy Novak
barge worker millionaire entertainer financier agent chorus girl charming melodramatic endearing london thames river barge tower bridge music hall nightclub ambition working class romance show business success
Kay, who works on a Thames River barge, and Steve are secretly in love with each other but do their best to hide it. Kay wants desperately to be a music-hall star and Steve wants to be a ... See full summary »
Musical, Romance, Comedy
UK
1932
75 Minutes
Jessie Matthews Owen Nares Carol Goodner Jerry Verno Charles Carson Barbara Everest Basil Radford Winifred Oughton
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 ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1933
89 Minutes
Jessie Matthews Sonnie Hale Edmund Gwenn Gordon Harker Muriel Aked Mary Jerrold Hartley Power Alfred Drayton Percy Parsons Robertson Hare Martita Hunt
art collector young woman young man bus driver elderly woman clerk fascinating engaging london bus street store house apartment storm accident theft family ex-convicts death
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 windshield as his vehicle sails down an empty road.... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
UK
1934
90 Minutes
Jessie Matthews Sonnie Hale Betty Balfour Barry MacKay Ivor Maclaren Hartley Power Patrick Ludlow Betty Shale
singer daughter ex-boyfriend publicist understudy amusing lighthearted london stage south africa mistaken identity deception illegitimate child song and dance romance fame love discovery 1930s
Harriet 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 ... See full summary »
Romance
UK
1938
79 Minutes
Jessie Matthews Michael Redgrave Noel Madison Alastair Sim Margaret Vyner Mary Clare Francis L. Sullivan Enid Stamp-Taylor Torin Thatcher Tucker McGuire Basil Radford
model millionaire young man beautiful girl amusing airy witty tender england united kingdom secret identity love love interest wealth poverty comedy love metamorphosis pursuit 20th century
Wealthy 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).
Comedy
1933
77 Minutes
Leslie Farrar
Jessie Matthews Ian Hunter Frederick Kerr Ben Field Margaret Yarde Kathleen Harrison
A woman poses as a maid in an attempt to get a true picture of the man she must marry to collect her inheritance.
Musical, Comedy
1936
83 Minutes
Jessie Matthews Robert Young Sonnie Hale Ernest Milton Rob Wilton Sara Allgood
gossip columnist chorus girl social climber society matron lady lighthearted witty london party restaurant newsroom deception impersonation fame high society romance transformation love 1930s
A gossip columnist (Jessie Matthews) poses as her rival's (Robert Young) latest creation, a supposed tiger hunter from India.
Romance, Biography
1934
81 Minutes
Rasi
Esmond Knight Jessie Matthews Edmund Gwenn Fay Compton Frank Vosper Robert Hale Charles Heslop Betty Huntley-Wright Hindle Edgar Sybil Grove Bill Shine
Kids & Family, Fantasy
UK|USA
1958
92 Minutes
Anne
Russ Tamblyn Alan Young Terry-Thomas Peter Sellers Jessie Matthews June Thorburn Bernard Miles Ian Wallace Peter Butterworth Peter Bull
tiny person adoptive mother fairy shoemaker thief playful lighthearted village fair forest swamp adoption magic theft underdog adventure unknown era
A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him.