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Jessie Matthews (Evergreen, First a Girl, It's Love Again, Gangway)—known as “the dancing divinity”, jessie matthews was a british musical star of stage and screen in the 20s and 30s - if you're an enjoyer of lavish art deco musicals of the likes of fred and ginger, busby berkeley etc, definitely give her movies a try they are delightful! (tantalizingly there were multiple attempts made to pair her and fred together that never came to fruition - gaumont-british tried to get fred for evergreen and mgm wanted jessie for a damsel in distress.) and for the women in tuxedos enjoyers, her 1935 movie first a girl was the first english language remake of viktor und viktoria, famously later remade with julie andrews.
Lili Damita (Brewster's Millions, Goldie Gets Along, Fighting Caravans)—no propaganda submitted
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Jessie Matthews:
Star of British 1930s stage and screen, she introduced classic songs by Noel Coward and Rogers and Hart to English audiences, and then played perky heroines, but today it’s her genderswapping role in First A Girl that probably gets most attention.
Lili Damita:
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Lili Damita / photo by Alex Binder, Berlin, probably 1926.
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Lili Damita by Kenneth Alexander (1930s)
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Lili Damita / publicity photo for Paramount Pictures by Eugene Robert Richee, 1932.
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Ronald Colman and Lili Damita in THE RESCUE (1929), directed by Herbert Brenon
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Lili Damita in This is the Night, 1932
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