Jessie Matthews

Another of the beautiful, self-made celebrities who haunt our corridors, Jessie Matthews was a gamine, graceful dancer, with a warbling voice, and waif-like sex appeal - the embodiment of ‘30s style. She looked as good in a sheer chiffon tea dress as in a DJ, dressed as a boy. Matthews danced from an early age, and worked at elocution lessons to create her trademark plummy accent.