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Evergreen is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Victor Saville released in USA on 31 december 1934 with Jessie Matthews

Evergreen (1934)

Evergreen
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Released in USA 31 december 1934
Length 1h30
Directed by
Genres Comedy,    Musical,    Romance
Rating65% 3.2926253.2926253.2926253.2926253.292625

Evergreen is a 1934 Gaumont British musical film, starring Jessie Matthews as a music hall singer, based on the 1930 musical Ever Green, also starring Matthews. Matthews had a dual role as both mother and daughter.

The film was produced by Michael Balcon and directed by Victor Saville. The music was by Rodgers and Hart.

Synopsis

Set in the Edwardian era music halls of London, the popular singing star Harriet Green (Jessie Matthews) delights audiences with her coy rendition of Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow; however she has an illegitimate baby daughter that she keeps secret from the public. Blackmailed into leaving the stage she moves to South Africa to raise her daughter quietly. Years later her daughter, Harriet Hawkes (played by Matthews again), looking remarkably like her mother, returns to London as a young show-biz hopeful. A handsome young publicity man Tommy Thompson (Barry MacKay), convinces a theater producer (Sonnie Hale) to star her in a new revue as the "remarkably preserved" original Harriet Green. The ruse works; however Harriet and Tommy have fallen in love, but the public believes Harriet is a well-preserved 60-year-old and Tommy is her son. The masquerade is revealed when Harriet does a strip-dance to the Harry M. Woods song Over My Shoulder.

Actors

Jessie Matthews

(Harriet Green)Sonnie Hale

(Leslie Benn)Betty Balfour

(Maudie)Barry MacKay

(Tommy Thompson)Hartley Power

(Treadwell)Norma Varden

(Barmaid (uncredited))
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