Evergreen (film)

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.

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 Wouldnt 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 showbiz 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 wellpreserved 60yearold and Tommy is her son. The masquerade is revealed when Harriet does a stripdance to the Harry M. Woods song Over My Shoulder.Capitalising on the success of Jessie Matthews performance in the 1930 West End production of Rodgers and Harts Ever Green musical, producer Michael Balcon engaged her for Emlyn Williams film adaptation of Benn W. Levys stage play. Harry M. Woods added four songs, dropping a number of the original Rodgers and Harts numbers. ........

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