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  indielondon.co.uk - theatre - Their Record Speaks For Them feature - Jessie Matthews
IN 1930, EVELYN Laye divorced her husband, Sonnie Hale, citing his adultery with Jessie Matthews who, at the end of the trial, was subjected to a very scathing condemnation as to her character and morals by the divorce judge.
Also, her stardom was causing Sonnie Hale to torment her out of jealousy and although she appeared to rise above it, this must have marked the start in the deterioration of the marriage for her as well.
Sonnie then decided they should return to the stage so they mounted with their savings, a musical, I Can Take It with music by Harry Woods, which opened in Sheffield in January 1939 and was scheduled to open, after a provincial tour, at the London Coliseum on September 12, 1939.
www.indielondon.co.uk /theatre/t_recordfeat_jessiematthews4.html   (3821 words)

  
 Evelyn Laye - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
She made her Broadway debut in 1929 in Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet.
Married to the actor Sonnie Hale from 1926, Laye received widespread public sympathy when Hale left her for the actress Jessie Matthews in 1930.
She continued acting in such productions as The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.
www.open-encyclopedia.com /Evelyn_Laye   (196 words)

  
 indielondon.co.uk - theatre - Over My Shoulder
It records her subsequent marriage to Sonnie Hale, which also failed due to her star eclipsing his and finally, after some frankly disappointing tours, to her radio career as Mrs Dale.
The musical numbers are put across with as much fidelity to the style of the day as is possible without making that style seem ludicrous and stilted by today's choreographic standards, and here there is one of the greatest chances any actress has ever had in London for some years.
Sonnie Hale is played by Andrew Halliday and he has all the talent as a dancer and singer to more than give an impression of Hale.
www.indielondon.co.uk /theatre/t_over_my_shoulder_rev.html   (1380 words)

  
 John Keener & Josie Mayo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Not sure where her siblings were all born, but wondering if maybe they were born there as well.
Audrey & Wes had 3 sons...Bonnie Hale "Sonnie or Junior" Long (1926), Billy Bob Long (1928) and Ray Mac Long (1937).
He married Wilma Euldene Bowen in 1946, and they had a daughter (Dana) in 1949, and then adopted my husband (Chris) in 1968 (he was a newborn at his adoption).
genforum.genealogy.com /keener/messages/1179.html   (366 words)

  
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The cast included Jessie Matthews and Sonnie Hale, who introduced the show-stopping number A Room With A View (Coward unashamedly admitted to pinching the song's title from E M Forster's novel).
At the time, Jessie's marriage to Harry Lytton was on the rocks and Sonnie felt overshadowed by the fame of his wife, Evelyn Laye.
Noël himself, in the Sonnie Hale role, starred in the New York production of This Year Of Grace which opened in October 1928 and ran well into the following year.
www.retrocentre.co.uk /Application/Products/Cd1/78135GB.asp   (2441 words)

  
 Over My Shoulder
Her second husband was the comic (and how dreadfully unfunny he seems now in his film roles) Sonnie Hale.
It was Matthews' misfortune that Hale persuaded the studios to let him take over the direction of her movies.
The results were increasingly feeble, and Matthews - probably the worst dressed film star of all time - gradually dwindled in a series of weak vehicles.
www.musical-theatre.net /html/cdreviews/over.html   (590 words)

  
 Who's Who in Musicals: Hale-Harris
Daughter of actor Robert Hale and sister of musical comedy star Sonnie Hale, she starred in more than 25 London musicals.
Hale continued to appear in musicals and pantomimes through the 1950s, co-starring with her brother in One, Two, Three (1947).
Hale directed several productions in the 1940s, and appeared in and directed a number of British musical films.
www.musicals101.com /who4.htm   (2349 words)

  
 FIRST A GIRL - Jessie Matthews Sonnie Hale Average Victor Saville Comedy Musical 1935 -
FIRST A GIRL - Jessie Matthews Sonnie Hale Average Victor Saville Comedy Musical 1935 -
A dressmaker (Jessie Matthews) takes in what turns out to be a female impersonator (Sonnie Hale) and aspiring actor.
The actor gets a part in a variety club, loses his / her voice, then asks Matthews to take over the part as a partner.
www.movies2go.net /review/FirstAGirl.html   (59 words)

  
 Evergreen 1930 - Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Jessie Matthews and Sonnie Hale, Joyce Barbour and Albert Burdon.
Musical-comedy lovers used to dream of a pairing of the two, but, except for Rogers, he was likely to be stuck dragging girls like Joan Leslie through their paces, while Jessie Matthews stayed in England and had to carry her movies by solos, or by comic turns with Sonnie Hale.
Here (with Sonnie Hale) she dances exquisitely in a classic British musical—i.e., charming but a little extended, and less snappy, noisy, and brash than American musicals of the same period.
www.lorenzhart.org /green.htm   (285 words)

  
 A Review of  London Town 
Really no more than an 'insurance policy' against the egotistical behaviour of the comic lead (Sonnie Hale), the devious plans of his daughter eventually bear fruit...and Field gets his chance.
Of the lead performers, Petula Clark certainly comes across as very natural - not the stage school child star at all - and it is hardly surprising she made it to adult stardom.
Interestingly neither she nor Sonnie Hale, though both musical performers, got a song to sing!
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /britmusical/LondonTownMartinsRev.htm   (1181 words)

  
 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This was the third of Gaumont British's vehicles for Matthews, "The Dancing Divinity," the English equivalent of America's popular Eleanor Powell.
Like the other films, this was directed by her husband, Hale, a popular British song-and-dance man. Critics of the time contended that this picture wasted Matthews' terpsichorean talents in favor of the hackneyed gangster theme.
Sonnie Hale (based on a story by Dwight Taylor)
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=28006   (169 words)

  
 Sonnie Hale - Movie Information at filmsandtv.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Director: Victor Saville Starring: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Betty Balfour, Barry MacKay, Ivor MacLaren, Hartley Power
Director: Victor Saville Starring: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Edmund Gwenn, Gordon Harker, Muriel Aked, Martita Hunt
Lives of bus passengers are greatly affected when they are involved in a crash on Friday the 13th.
www.filmsandtv.com /SearchMovie.aspx?q=Sonnie+Hale   (123 words)

  
 ARCHIVE Ev - Ez
She didn't have It in her private life too since Matthews nicked her husband, Sonnie Hale.
In both films it is a mystery why the heroines should fancy the men they do since they are such unattractive drips (I also can't figure out why anyone in their right minds would fight over Sonnie Hale).
Love interest Barry Mackay in his film debut is unmemorable while Sonnie Hale is as irritating as ever.
www.britishpictures.com /arch_e2.html   (1295 words)

  
 Age Of Style : 50 Classic Tracks from the 1930s
As 'Dancing On The Ceiling' Rodgers and Hart offered the number to C B Cochran for his musical show 'Ever Green'; Cochran wisely accepted and Jessie and Sonnie Hale introduced the number at the newly opened Adelphi Theatre on 3 December 1930.
The BBC banned the song from being broadcast at this time because it mentioned the word 'bed' twice, but Jessie always claimed the ban was directed at her in view of the notorious divorce case between Evelyn Laye and Sonnie Hale where Jessie was cited as co-respondent (Sonnie and Jessie married in January 1931).
By 1934 when 'Evergreen' (one word by this time) was filmed, Jessie had become a huge star as a result of appearing opposite John Gielgud in the 1933 film of J B Priestley's 'The Good Companions'.
www.robertopiecollection.com /Application/Products/Cd1/78134GB.asp   (3367 words)

  
 The Jessie Mattews Home Page
by Eddie Pola, Sonnie Hale, Harrg Parr-Davies and Ben Frankel.
With Sonnie Hale, George Carney, Peggy Rawlings, Hal Thompson, Robert Dorning and Eddie Matthews.
a comedy by Robert Monro (Sonnie Hale), presented and directed by Anthony Knowles, with Sonnie Hale, Valerie Singleton, Derek Martinus and Natalie Kent.
www.btinternet.com /~judyin.london/overmyshoulder/jmth1.htm   (1068 words)

  
 BBC - Comedy Guide - Halesapoppin!
A rare TV vehicle for the British comedian Sonnie Hale (born John Robert Hale-Munro in 1902, died 1959).
A star of stage and screen, Hale made people laugh, did impressions, dance, sang, wrote and even directed much of his own material.
The title was a pun on Olsen and Johnson's famous zany Broadway revue and 1942 film Hellzapoppin.
www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/h/halesapoppin_1299001344.shtml   (121 words)

  
 First a Girl (1935)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Although she was a proficient tap dancer, here she does not perform any rhythmic tap dances as she did in her other films.
The tap dancing she does is more of a soft-shoe performed with co-star, Sonnie Hale, which turns into a nicely done ballroom-style dance, which is part of a large production number.
There is another big production number done with the typical chorus girls and a singer, in which Matthews does not participate.
us.imdb.com /title/tt0026361   (440 words)

  
 Britmovie - Fiddlers Three   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
An attempt to break out of the wartime rut, Fiddlers Three, starred Tommy Trinder, this time teamed with Sonnie Hale, not seen in a film since Ealing's Let's Be Famous in 1939.
They played two servicemen on leave who take shelter during a thunderstorm under the altarstone of Stonehenge, accompanied by a Wren (Diana Decker).
His associate producer Robert Hamer shot many scenes and, although it was not well-regarded at the studio, its box-office performance was satisfactory, and it was even reissued in 1949 in a double bill with Kind Hearts and Coronets.
www.britmovie.co.uk /studios/ealing/filmography/35.html   (223 words)

  
 Robert Hale (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Father of actress Binnie Hale and actor Sonnie Hale.
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 Item #: 103519-01 - LONDON TOWN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Starring: Sid Field, Petula Clark, Gretta Gynt, Sonnie Hale, Sid Field, Sheila Bligh, Pamela Carroll, Mary Clare, Dorothy Cuff, Beryl Davis, Alfie Dean, Jerry Desmonde, W.
Fay, Sonnie Hale, Stella Hamilton, Lucas Hovinga, Pat Hughes, Claude Hulbert, Sheila Huntington, Pauline Johnson, Pamela
All tapes are in the NTSC VHS format used in the United States.
www.smartcart.com /lifeisamovie/cgi/search.cgi?terms3=Sheila+Huntington   (227 words)

  
 Evergreen
Young music hall performer attains stardom by masquerading as her retired mother.
Original Cast Included: Jessie Matthews and Sonnie Hale, Joyce Barbour and Albert Burdon.
The song Dancing On The Ceiling was originally supposed to be in the musical Simple Simon but was thrown out.
www.musicalheaven.com /e/evergreen.shtml   (121 words)

  
 Jessie Matthews - Movie Information at filmsandtv.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Despite efforts by Peter Cook as Sherlock Holmes and Dudley Moore as Doctor Watson, this spoof on the Arthur Conan Doyle mystery misses the mark--by a long shot!
In the 1800s, Vienna was center stage for the world's music.
It tells the classic story by the Brothers Grimm about the five-inch-tall boy who outwits those who are much larger than himself.
www.filmsandtv.com /SearchMovie.aspx?q=Jessie+Matthews   (417 words)

  
 Engelwood Entertainment Catalog - HOLLYWOOD GOLD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Starring Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Griffith Jones, Anna Lee, Alfred Drayton.
Screenplay by Marjorie Gaffney, based on the play VIKTOR UND VIKTORIA by Reinhold Schunzel.
Released in the U.S. Jan. 3, 1936 at the Roxy Theatre In New York City
www.englewd.com /catalog/detail.cfm?ProdNum=119&GroupID=7   (141 words)

  
 Ninotchka [VHS] video online at Movies Unlimited
There's no hockey-masked killer in this British comedy/drama that opens with a London bus accident, then goes back 24 hours to follow six passengers, the events leading up to their presence on the bus, and their final fate.
Among the stars featured are Edmund Gwenn, Sonnie Hale, Jessie Matthews and Ralph Richardson.
Entertaining WWI story with Walter Huston as a doughboy who forms a bond with a cavalry horse after it saves his life.
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 Sonnie Hale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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 Engelwood Entertainment Catalog - HOLLYWOOD GOLD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Instead, she gets mixed up with a bunch of gangsters and falls under the suspicion of the dashing detective whom she's falling in love with.
Another wonderfully entertaining Gaumont-British musical from the husband-wife team of Sonnie Hale and Jessie Matthews.
This crisp, brilliant presentation has been digitally remastered for the most discriminating viewer.
www.englewd.com /catalog/detail.cfm?ProdNum=125&GroupID=7   (101 words)

  
 Charleston : Great Stars Of The 1920s
In Binnie Hale and Jack Buchanan we have two of Britain's brightest stars from the London production in the most popular number from the show, Who?
The gifted Staritabrothers, Al, Rudy and Ray were of Italian extraction but spent their formative years in the USA.
First sung by Sonnie Hale in the C B Cochran produced revue 'This Year Of Grace' at the London Pavilion, Noël himself introduced it to New York audiences when the show opened at the Selwyn Theater in 1929.
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 Cole Porter / Wake Up and Dream
Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Tillie Losch, George Metaxa, Toni Birkmeyer, Douglas Byng, William Stephens, Moya Nugent, Tina Meller, Elsie Carlisle, Polly Ward, Antonio Rodriguez, and Chester Fredericks
"I Want to Be Raided by You" [added during the London run] - Sonnie Hale
"Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" [from Paris] - Jessie Matthews and Sonnie Hale
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 Moviefone: Friday the 13th Movie: MAIN
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Starring: Sonnie Hale, Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, Ursula Jeans, more credits
Synopsis: Definitely no relation to the horror-film series of the same name, the British Friday the 13th is a variation of the "Bridge on the San Luis Rey" theme, set in motion by a London bus accident.
movies.aol.com /movie/main.adp?mid=1059449   (286 words)

  
 Sonnie Hale (1902-1959), Actor; son of John Robert Hale-Munro
Sonnie Hale (1902-1959), Actor; son of John Robert Hale-Munro
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