Real name: Jessie Margaret Matthews

Effective period / Period of releases: 1937 - 1973

English actress, dancer and singer of the 1930s.
Born 11 March 1907 in Soho, London, England.
Died 19 August 1981 (aged 74) in Eastcote, London, England.
Married to actors Henry Lytton Jnr. (1926-30, divorced) and Sonnie Hale (1931-1944, divorced).
Her career continued into the post-war period. Her nicknames give you and idea of how good a dancer she was: The Dancing Divinity and The English Ginger Rogers.