Jessie Matthews

Jessie Matthews was born on Mar 11, 1907 in UK. Jessie Matthews's big-screen debut came with The Beloved Vagabond directed by Fred LeRoy Granville in 1923. Jessie Matthews is known for Edward & Mrs. Simpson directed by Waris Hussein, Edward Fox stars as King Edward VIII and Cynthia Harris as Wallis Warfield Simpson. The upcoming new tvshow Jessie Matthews plays is Edward & Mrs. Simpson - Season 1 which will be released on Jan 23, 1980.

Born to a huge, poor family in Soho in London's West End, Jessie Matthews became a big stage star in the late 1920s and 1930s, enjoying some crossover success in musical films. Her career never quite relaunched after the war, though, but she staged a comeback when she replaced the lead actress in the radio soap "Mrs Dale's Diary" in the 1960s. Her life was blighted by breakdowns of relationships and her own struggles with bad health and insecurity, and she wound up, amazingly, buried in an unmarked grave (only rectified after a TV documentary in the late 1980s brought this to light--beg, steal or borrow a copy of BBC's Timewatch (1982) documentary series episode "Catch A Fallen Star"). An amazing life.