Tom Thumb (1958) more movies like this

directed by George Pal
featuring Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Jessie Matthews

Producer/animator/special-effect maven George Pal made his feature-film directorial bow with the colorful MGM musical fantasy Tom Thumb (the title of the film was spelled in lower case in the opening credits, and in all studio publicity material). Russ Tamblyn stars as the teeny-tiny titular protagonist, while veteran musicomedy favorite Jessie ...

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First a Girl (1935) more movies like this

directed by Victor Saville
featuring Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee, Griffith Jones, Alfred Drayton

British musical star Jessie Matthews tops the bill in this song-studded comedy. Elizabeth (Matthews) is a delivery girl for a seamstress who is dispatched to drop off some costumes at a theater where a noted female impersonator is about to open a new show. The star is suddenly stricken with laryngitis, and Elizabeth is drafted to take over in his ...

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Sailing Along (1938) more movies like this

directed by Sonnie Hale
featuring Jessie Matthews, Barry Mackay, Jack Whiting, Roland Young, Noel Madison

The irrepressible Jessie Matthews heads the cast of the buoyant musical Sailing Along. Matthews plays Kay Martin, a popular British music-hall performer. At the height of her stardom, Kay gives it all up for the love of handsome Steve Barnes (Barry McKay). But before she makes this momentous decision, the audience is treated to three lively tunes: ...

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Friday the 13th (1933) more movies like this

directed by Victor Saville
featuring Sonnie Hale, Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, Ursula Jeans, Frank Lawton, Max Miller, Emlyn Williams, Gordon Harker

Definitely no relation to the horror-film series of the same name, the British Friday the 13th is a variation of the "Bridge on the San Luis Rey" theme, set in motion by a London bus accident. Two passengers are killed and two injured in the crash, but the screenplay (co-written by Hitchcock-contributor Sidney Gilliat) keeps the audience in ...

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The Good Companions (1933) more movies like this

directed by Victor Saville
featuring Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, John Gielgud, Mary Glynne, Max Miller, Percy Parsons

Based on a novel by J. B. Priestley, this British musical-comedy follows an unlikely trio as they try to revive the fortunes of a floundering touring theatrical troupe. Inigo Jolifant (John Gielgud) is a schoolteacher with a talent for songwriting, and Jess Oakroyd (Edmund Gwenn) is a man with theatrical ambitions who has just lot his job. ...

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Head over Heels in Love (1937) more movies like this

directed by Sonnie Hale
featuring Jessie Matthews, Louis Borell, Robert Flemyng, Whitney Bourne, Romney Brent

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 ...

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Climbing High (1938) more movies like this

directed by Carol Reed
featuring Jessie Matthews, Michael Redgrave, Noel Madison, Alastair Sim

Originally conceived as a musical (called Asking for Trouble) to showcase the talents of leading lady Jessie Matthews, Climbing High emerged as a straight romantic comedy, albeit one that sometimes sets up musical numbers that don't occur. Michael Redgrave plays Nicky Brooke, a millionaire unhappily involved with a society dame who is primarily ...

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It's Love Again (1936) more movies like this

directed by Victor Saville
featuring Jessie Matthews, Robert Young, Sonnie Hale, Ernest Milton, Robb Wilton

Robert Young decides to create a "scoop" by fabricating the impending arrival of a female big-game hunter named Mrs. Smythe-Smythe. Jessie Matthews decides to pose as the fictitious woman, the better to embarrass Young. The comic complications are obliged to share screen time with Matthews' inevitable songs, the best of which is the title tune. ...

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Gangway (1937) more movies like this

directed by Sonnie Hale
featuring Jessie Matthews, Olive Blakeney, Liane Ordeyne, Patrick Ludlow

In this musical, a plucky London newspaper journalist boards a transatlantic ocean liner in hopes of interviewing a prominent Hollywood starlet. She is followed by a Scotland Yard inspector who is looking for the jewel thief he knows is on board. Unfortunately, the inspector doesn't know the actual identity of the thief and his prime suspect ...

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Candles at Nine (1944) more movies like this

directed by John Harlow
featuring Jessie Matthews, John Stuart, Beatrix Lehmann, Winifred Shotter, Reginald Purdell

British stage star Jessie Matthews, who lit up the silver screen in England during the '30s, returned to the screen for her first starring vehicle in five years in Candles at Nine. Adapted from Anthony Gilbert's novel Mouse Who Couldn't Play Ball, it's a haunted house/mystery film along lines that intersect with Gaslight, Rebecca, and a dozen ...

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Evergreen (1934) more movies like this

directed by Victor Saville
featuring Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Betty Balfour, Barry Mackay, Hartley Power, Ivor McLaren

The old Ben W. Levy war-horse play Evergreen proved to be an excellent film vehicle from British music-comedy star Jessie Matthews. Our heroine plays a popular music hall thrush of the early 1900s, whose impending marriage into nobility is destroyed by the arrival of her long-thought-dead lover. When the latter demands "hush money," Matthews ...

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