Jessie Matthews, Over My Shoulder, from Evergreen, 1934

The Turbo-dually-rotating-stage-tastic cloud-dancing conclusion to Evergreen, the 1934 film of London's biggest stage musical hit up to that time.

Jessie Matthews at her peak.

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Music

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• Jessie
• Matthews
• Over
• My
• Shoulder
• Musical
• 1930s

[prl1973]

Evergreen finally comes to DVD May 28th 2009 - check with any online retailer!

[prl1973]

over my shoulder goes one care

over my shoulder go two cares

why should I cry? It's blue above

I'm free at last and I'm in love

over my shoulder goes three cares

over my shoulder go four cares

bye-bye to problems

they've gone beyond recall

over my shoulder goes it all!

[polkadotpolka123]

now THIS my friends, is cinema.

[jaytlr9]

Thanks to you posting this, I'm now the proud and happy owner of a Jessie Matthews cd, She sings this song on it, amongst many other gems.

[Epc100]

It is very much in the style of Busby Berkley, but no, this was Brittsh and not Hollywood.

In fact its small scale compaired to those. Each film out-did the last in this sort of thing.

[operamichael]

Wonderful.

[19davo66]

Please excuse my ignorance, but is this a Buzby Berkely routine?

[theuofc]

Magical! Thank you for sharing this gem.

[Tenortalker]

Jessie's films epitomize this era- she was a huge star. She suffered bouts of Manic depression/ borderline schizophrenia which made her life and relationships difficult, but onstage she shone like no other. Evergreen!

[Ruthy1950]

My Nanna served her in Phillips bros drapers in Neath in the 1940s. And did a bit of modelling too, got a pic of Jessie Matthews with my Nanna serving her, awesome :)

[peteatrov231]

It's a Chipmonk! lol

[LucilleStarrFan]

Yes, she was. In England, she was known as "The Dancing Divinity." Also, she wrote an autobiography called "Over My Shoulder."