Jessie Matthews
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Jessie Margaret Matthews was an English actress, dancer and singer who rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s, with her career continuing into the post-war period.
Matthews in 1917, aged ten.
Jessie Matthews OBE 1907–1981 musical comedy star of stage and films was born in Berwick Street
Evelyn Laye
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Evelyn Laye was an English actress and singer known for her performances in operettas and musicals.
Jessie Matthews
…denounced her as an "odious" individual when her love letters to Hale were used as evidence in the case of his divorce from his wife, actress/singer Evelyn 'Boo' Laye. Hale and Matthews were married on 24 January 1931 at Hampstead Register Office, and they lived in The Old House, a farmhouse in Hampton, Middlesex…
Evelyn Laye Allan Warren
Madame Pompadour, 1923
With Frank Lawton, whom she married in 1934
Laye's first non-musical West End play, 1949