Evergreen

In her London Art Deco flat, British superstar Jessie Matthews as West End theater star “Harriet” (part of a complicated story in which she’s claiming to be her own mother) with a Rodgers and Hart tune from the original stage production, in Evergreen, 1934, from British-Gaumont studios.

For the benefit of London director Benn (Sonnie Hale), inept PR man Tommy (Barry Mackay) and ex-showgirl Maudie (Betty Balfour) reveal Jessie Matthews, claiming she’s the star Harriet Green he knew back in the day, rather than her daughter, song by Harry M. Woods, in Evergreen, 1934.

After the prologue, Jessie Matthews as the daughter of a West End star who abandoned showbiz and gave her up for adoption, at an audition, Jessie’s husband Sonnie Hale the director, Marjorie Brooks his leading lady, Barry Mackay the witty PR man, in the British musical Evergreen, 1934.

Joining the first scene in a West End theater ca. 1909, Jessie Matthews is headliner Harriet Green in her farewell performance with a standard tune of the day, Betty Balfour among the troupe, Victor Saville directing, in the early British partly Rodgers & Hart musical Evergreen, 1934.