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Jessie Matthews
 
Date of birth: 11 March 1907
Date of death: 19 August 1981
Country Of Origin: England
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Actress

Dancer

Singer

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" For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting. "

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" I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with. "

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" I dreaded doing close-ups. "

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" I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance. "

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" I had a very musical ear. "

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" I had the choice of songs. I didn't know whether they were English, French, Italian, Russian, Jewish, German or what the hell their nationality was! "

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" I've always preferred films to the stage; I've always been terrified of an audience, afraid I wouldn't be able to give my best. "

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" In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted. "

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" The songwriters used to hate my guts! "

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" The songwriters were introduced to me as ordinary human beings; they would play their songs, and sometimes I would start to sing a song with them. "

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" Victor Saville used to say to me, Darling, you look beautiful. With his magic and the lighting there was no doubt about it, I looked beautiful! "

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" When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks. "

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