Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Jessie Matthews NPG x16521

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Matthews began as a dancer. There is a plaque in Berwick Street market commemorating her childhood, when she danced in the street to a barrel-organ. In the 1930s she became Britain's top musical film star. She starred in Noël Coward's This Year Of Grace, in which she introduced 'A Room With a View' and 'Teach Me To Dance Like Grandma'. She came to the Gaiety Theatre in 1931 in Hold My Hand, with music by Noel Gay. Her films, especially Evergreen, It's Love Again... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.