The romantic team of Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding returns in director Herbert Wilcox’s engrossing 1951 historical drama The Lady with a Lamp, an episodic and stately biography of the great English pioneer lady of nursing. Neagle […]
Producer-director Herbert Wilcox’s moving 1939 biographical drama Nurse Edith Cavell stars Anna Neagle in one of her most famous roles as Edith Cavell, the gallant, dedicated English nurse who so loyally and bravely served the allied troops […]
Director Herbert Wilcox’s colourful 1938 royal historical drama sequel Sixty Glorious Years [Queen of Destiny] stars Dame Anna Neagle as Queen Victoria again in the gorgeously photographed Technicolor follow-up to the 1937 black-and-white hit Victoria the […]
Producer-director Herbert Wilcox’s 1937 historical drama Victoria the Great stars a right regal Anna Neagle who gives an impressive, indeed royal, performance as Queen Victoria, in a stirring black and white look at highspots of […]
Director Herbert Wilcox’s 1934 rollicking 1660s-set costume romp Nell Gwyn stars Anna Neagle as brazen common English orange-vendor and actress Nell Gynn, who competes with the snooty aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth (Jeanne De Casalis) for the […]
I really appreciated Jellyfish. It is first class. Newcomer Liv Hill is just great as 15-year-old schoolgirl Sarah Taylor, the sole carer of her family, including precocious young twin siblings and an unfunctioning manic-depressive mother (Sinead […]
Producer-director Herbert Wilcox’s 1954 musical Lilacs in the Spring [Let’s Make Up] is an odd movie that veers from drama, comedy and romance towards fantasy. His wife Anna Neagle stars as young entertainer Carole Beaumont, […]
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