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| re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 01:18 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:10 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! - young-walsingham 12:35 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
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| Here's another vid I just watched with Jessie Matthews and Jack Whiting partnering in a tap dance number. What struck me, besides what a great partner she would be for Astaire, is that it is very good choreography, telling a story really well, without all the extraneous jumping and acrobatics some modern choreographers think is necessary in numbers that don't call for it. Plus Matthews was quite versatile and Whiting a very good partner indeed. I bet Gene Kelly was influenced by seeing some of these routines, as Matthews was a big star in her day and deserves to be rediscovered. The part with the thugs reminds of me some stuff in the "Broadway Melody" number in "Singin' in the Rain" and the "Slaughter on 10th Avenue" number Kelly did with Vera-Ellen in "Words and Music", and also a bit of a precursor of the way gangs were handled in "West Side Story". | |
| Link | Jessie Matthews/Jack Whiting "Tap Dance" |
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| re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! | |
| Posted by: edinalex 01:59 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! - PlayWiz 01:10 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
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| When I was at school, we used to have group outings to a nearby theatre. When I was 16 I saw Jessie Matthews playing the lead in The Killing of Sister George. | |
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| re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:59 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! - edinalex 01:59 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
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| Wow, talk about range! | |
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| re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! | |
| Posted by: HelenHaze 06:24 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Enjoy Jessie Matthews singing and dancing to Rodgers and Hart for Valentine's Day! - PlayWiz 01:59 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
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| I saw her as the Wife of Bath in Canterbury Tales in London in 1968 opposite Wilfred Brambell (the old guy from the Beatles Hard Days Night movie). She was sensational. | |
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