(August 1945 - 1959) (divorced)
Jessie Matthews resumed her stage career in the West End in Jerome Kern's Wild Rose (1942). While appearing in concerts with the Entertainments National Service Association she met Lieutenant (Richard) Brian Lewis, of the Queen's Royal regiment, who was twelve years her junior; in 1945 they married. Lewis was the son of Norman Percy Lewis, a schoolmaster, from West Hartlepool. Four months later Jessie Matthews had a stillborn son and her doctors warned her that another pregnancy would threaten her life. In 1948, after six years' absence, she reappeared on the London stage in Maid to Measure, followed in 1949 by the revue Sauce Tartare. She also appeared in Pygmalion (1950) and Private Lives (1954). She and Brian Lewis divorced in 1958.