[Bounci]

The 2nd video (and 3rd overall) of Jessie Matthews comes from the film Evergreen (1934), where she plays the illegitimate daughter of a music hall star who died abroad, and is spotted by a couple of conmen and persuaded to pretend she is her own mother making a comeback on stage, albeit wearing a grey wig to try and convince people she is older than she actually is. In this clip she is worked through her paces by a couple of women telling her how to move and pose. When one of her poses is deemed less than satisfactory, the woman training her gives her a slap on the backside and says "And that must come out more!" As is par for the course, Jessie wears close fitting clothes, and in one moment when she refuses to go through with it and sits down you get a good outline of what her bum looks like through her frock! You also get to see Jessie dance, and like in the last video you get to see her do her famous high kicks where her legs really DO go over her head! No wonder she was known as the "Dancing Divinity!"

Jessie Matthews' career petered out by the end of the 1930's, though the introduction of the Hayes Code and a scandal involving an affair with Evelyn Laye's husband Sonny Hale didn't help matters for her. She did make a notable appearance years later in Tom Thumb in 1958, but her best films are in the 1930's, and makes you wonder what Pre Code Hollywood would of done with her. She died in 1981, aged 74.