Anna NeagleFilmography

The Heart of a Man

Crew: Producer

Actors: Frankie Vaughan, Anne Heywood, Tony Britton, Peter Sinclair, Michael Medwin, Anthony Newley

Synopsis: Herbert Wilcox wrapped up his long and prestigious film career as the director of Heart of a Man, which was produced by Wilcox' actress wife Anna Neagle. British teen idol Frankie Vaughn plays a sailor with a penchant for bursting into song. Vaughn has no intention of making a living as a Read More

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

Actors: Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Katherine Kath, Dora Bryan, Leonard Sachs

Synopsis: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk was coproduced by husband-and-wife Herbert Wilcox and Anna Neagle, with Ms. Neagle filling the role of Queen's Council representative Mary Randall. The title character is American scientist Frank Smith, played by Anthony Quayle, who is honeymooning in London with his new Read More

Wonderful Things?

Crew: Producer

Actors: Frankie Vaughan, Jackie Lane

Synopsis: Wonderful Things was one of two Frankie Vaughan vehicles produced in the late 1950s by actress Anna Neagle. The popular British recording artist is cast as a Gilbraltar fisherman named Carmello, who vies with his brother Mario (Jeremy Spenser) over the attentions of the beauteous Pepita (Jackie Read More

Dangerous Youth

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Baker, Thora Hird, Frankie Vaughan, Eddie Byrne, Kenneth Cope, Carole Lesley, Jackie Lane, Robert Desmond, Ray Jackson, Katherine Kath

Synopsis: This British drama chronicles the exploits of a brutal Liverpudlian gang leader/would-be rock star who finds himself inducted into the army. The troubled youth undergoes basic training and emerges a man. Later his best friend from boot camp is killed by the camp bully. Courageously, he stands up Read More

No Time for Tears

Actors: Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, George Baker, Alan White

Synopsis: Anna Neagle steps down from her expensive musical extravaganzas to play a recognizable human being in No Time for Tears. She plays the dedicated director of a busy children's hospital, battling red tape, family hassles and public indifference. A large and stellar cast appears in this episodic Read More

My Teenage Daughter

Actors: Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms, Norman Wooland, Kenneth Haigh

Synopsis: What was the lady-like Dame Anna Neagle doing in something called Bad Girl -- or, as it was renamed in certain regions, Teenage Bad Girl? In point of fact, the film was originally and more tastefully titled My Teenage Daughter when Neagle signed on. Neagle plays Valerie Carr, the editor of a Read More

King's Rhapsody

Actors: Anna Neagle, Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Martita Hunt, Finlay Currie

Synopsis: King's Rhapsody was the second screen teaming of beloved British star Anna Neagle and Hollywood's "bad boy" Errol Flynn. Based on a musical play by Ivor Novello, the film casts Flynn as a European prince who falls in love with commoner Neagle. The prince pulls an "Edward VIII" and goes into exile Read More

Lilacs in the Spring

Actors: Anna Neagle, Errol Flynn, David Farrar, Kathleen Harrison

Synopsis: Anna Neagle is so overpoweringly good in Lilacs in the Spring (aka Let's Make Up!) that a times it's easy to forget that her co-star is Errol Flynn! Based on Glorious Days, a play by Robert Nesbitt, the film offers Neagle in four different characterizations. Suffering a concussion while serving in Read More

Derby Day

Actors: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Sr., Googie Withers, John McCallum

Synopsis: Derby Day is a typically British omnibus feature, delineating the fates of several different people during a single day at the racetrack. Peter Graves (not the American actor of the same name) plays a superficial movie star who has been won in a fan-magazine raffle by housemaid Suzanne Cloutier. Read More

The Lady with a Lamp

Actors: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Sr., Gladys Young, Felix Aylmer, Sybil Thorndike, Julian D'Albie

Synopsis: British film-favorite Anna Neagle, having previously played such great historical personages as Queen Victoria and Edith Cavell, tackles the role of Florence Nightingale in Lady with the Lamp. Based on a play by Reginald Berkeley, the film traces the indefatigable Nightingale's efforts to minister Read More

Odette

Actors: Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring, Peter Ustinov, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: This espionage drama was based on the true story of Odette Sansom Churchill, who became an unlikely hero during WWII. Born in France, Odette (Anna Neagle) was married to an Englishman who died in battle. When the British Army made an appeal for photos of the French coastline, Odette mailed a set Read More

Spring in Park Lane

Actors: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Sr., Tom Walls, Peter Graves, Nicholas Phipps, Marjorie Fielding

Synopsis: One of many cinematic collaborations between actress Anna Neagle and her real-life husband, director Herbert Wilcox, this light, romantic "drawing room" comedy was Britain's biggest box office hit of 1948. Neagle stars as Judy Howard, the niece of wealthy art collector Joshua Howard (Tom Walls) Read More

Maytime in Mayfair

Crew: Producer

Actors: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Sr., Peter Graves, Nicholas Phipps, Thora Hird

Synopsis: Maytime in Mayfair is concerned with England's high-fashion set, especially those creatures whose designs set the tone for London's upper crust. Two of the leading emporia are located directly across the street from each other, one run by the lovely Eileen Grahame (Anna Neagle) and the other by Read More

Piccadilly Incident

Actors: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Sr., Frances Mercer, Coral Browne, A.E. Matthews

Synopsis: Anna Neagle plays a patriotic young British girl who joins the WRENS when war breaks out. She marries Michael Wilding, the son of an nobleman. Neagle is shipped off to Singapore and is presumed killed in action. Wilding's grief is assuaged when he meets American WAVE Frances Mercer. He remarries Read More

Elizabeth of Ladymead

Actors: Anna Neagle, Hugh Williams, Michael Laurence, Bernard Lee, Nicholas Phipps

Synopsis: Fans of British film star Anna Neagle had a field day with her bravura Technicolor vehicle Elizabeth of Ladymead--though not enough fans showed up back in 1948 to make the film a success. Neagle portrays four different characters from four different historical periods, each named Elizabeth. The Read More

The Courtney Affair

Actors: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Sr., Gladys Young, Coral Browne

Synopsis: Originally released in England as The Courtneys of Curzon Street, The Courtney Affair entertainingly covers the first 45 years of the 20th century. Anna Neagle plays an Irish maid who upsets the class-distinction equilibrium by marrying aristocrat Michael Wilding. Shunned by "proper" society, Neagle Read More

A Yank in London

Actors: Anna Neagle, Dean Jagger, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Irene Vanbrugh

Synopsis: I Live in Grosvenor Square is better known by its American release title, A Yank in London. Anna Neagle, whose husband Herbert Wilcox produced and directed the film, stars as Lady Patricia Fairfax, who enters into a brief wartime romance with American air force sergeant John Patterson (Dean Read More

The Yellow Canary

Actors: Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam, Albert Lieven, Lucie Mannheim, Margaret Rutherford

Synopsis: The Yellow Canary was one of several wartime collaborations between British producer-director Herbert Wilcox and Hollywood's RKO Radio Pictures. The film stars Wilcox's wife Anna Neagle as pretty aristocrat Sally Maitland. Having alienated many of her friends with her prewar Nazi sympathies, Sally Read More

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Forever and a Day

Actors: Brian Aherne, Merle Oberon, Ida Lupino, Gladys Cooper, C. Aubrey Smith, Claude Rains, Robert Cummings, Anna Neagle, Roland Young

Synopsis: The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people turned over their salaries to British war relief -- a point driven home during the lengthy opening credits by an unseen narrator. The true star of the film is a stately old Read More

Wings and the Woman

Synopsis: Wings and the Woman was a reverent (read: dull) British biopic about pioneer aviatrix Amy Johnson. Anna Neagle portrays Amy, whose fame in the 1930s is such that songs are written about her and a worldwide fan club is organized. See RKO Book. Ms. Johnson's fame exacts a toll on her marriage to Read More

Sunny

Actors: Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman

Synopsis: Sunny was one of three RKO Radio Broadway-musical adaptations tailored to the talents of British favorite Anna Neagle by her soon-to-be-husband Herbert Wilcox (the other two were No No Nanette and Irene). The story has been updated a bit and transposed to New Orleans' Mardi Gras, but remains at Read More

Irene

Actors: Anna Neagle, Ray Milland, Roland Young, Alan Marshal, May Robson

Synopsis: In this remake of the 1926 silent hit (which was in turn based on a hit musical from 1919), Anna Neagle stars as Irene O'Dare, an Irish girl of humble beginnings who comes to New York in search of work. She finds a place as a shopgirl at a fashionable and expensive boutique managed by Mr. Smith (Roland Young Read More

No, No Nanette

Actors: Anna Neagle, Richard Carlson, Victor Mature, Roland Young, Helen Broderick

Synopsis: No, No, Nanette was the second film version of the popular Otto Harbach-Vincent Youmans Broadway musical. Though slightly updated, the basic plot remains the same, with heroine Nanette (Anna Neagle) entering into a financial arrangement whereby she must answer "No" to every question during a Read More

Land of Liberty

Synopsis: Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from past American historical epics. The project was sponsored by the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. and supervised by Cecil B. DeMille, who also edited Read More

Nurse Edith Cavell

Actors: Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: Many of the "preparedness" films of the years just prior to World War II sidestepped censorship by depicting past outrages of the Germans. Such a film was British producer Herbert Wilcox's Hollywood production Nurse Edith Cavell, in which Wilcox's future wife Anna Neagle portrayed the titular Read More

Sixty Glorious Years

Actors: Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, C. Aubrey Smith, Walter Rilia, Charles Carson

Synopsis: Anna Neagle repeats her role from the successful Victoria the Great (1937) as the domineering Queen Victoria in this slice-of-life melodrama on royalty and the upper classes. The 60 years of the title refers to Victoria's reign on the throne of England. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Victoria the Great

Actors: Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilia, Mary Morris, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: Laurence Housman's 1935 stage play Victoria Regina, which has served as a showcase for actresses as varied as Helen Hayes and Julie Harris, was adapted for the screen in 1937 as Victoria the Great. Herbert Wilcox was the producer, so no one was surprised and everyone was satisfied when Wilcox cast Read More

Limelight

Actors: Anna Neagle, Arthur Tracy, Ellis Jeffreys, Tilly Losch, Alexander Field

Synopsis: No relation to the same-named Charlie Chaplin production, Limelight is a joint vehicle for British movie favorite Anna Neagle and radio celebrity Arthur Tracy, aka "The Street Singer." Neagle plays chorus girl Marjorie Kaye, who discovers tenor Bob Grant (Tracy) as he sings in the streets for Read More

Girls in the Street

Synopsis: In this romance, a street performer gets into an argument with an ambassador's chauffeur and ends up falling in love with the diplomat. Unfortunately, when government secrets are revealed, the finger of blame is pointed directly at her. But she is innocent. The real culprit is her ex-fiance whom Read More

Look out for Love

Actors: Anna Neagle, Tullio Carminatti, Robert Douglas, Horace Hodges, Grizelda Hervey

Synopsis: One of several Anna Neagle-Tulio Carminatti vehicles of the 1930's, London Melody was one of five films directed in 1937 by Neagle's future husband Herbert Wilcox. This time around, Carminatti is cast as Marius Andreani, a cultured Italian diplomat. While in London on business, Marius makes the Read More

Backstage

Actors: Anna Neagle, Arthur Tracy, Jane Winton, Ellis Jeffreys

Synopsis: Backstage is more flavorful fluff from the star/director combo of Anna Neagle and Herbert Wilcox Neagle. Neagle plays a likeable chorine who hears tenor Arthur Tracy singing on streets. No surprises here: before he left for England, Tracy had gained fame in the US as radio's "Street Singer". But Read More

Peg of Old Drury

Actors: Anna Neagle, Cedric Hardwicke, Dorothy Robinson, Margaretta Scott, Jack Hawkins, Pollie Emery, Maire O'Neill, Stuart Robertson

Synopsis: This period drama is based on the relationship between 18th-century British stage stars Peg Woffington and David Garrick. The story begins as Woffington leaves Dublin to be with her lover who is an aspiring actor. Unfortunately, by the time she arrives, he has found another, causing her to try her Read More

Three Maxims

Actors: Anna Neagle, Tullio Carminatti, Leslie Banks, Horace Hodges, Arthur Finn, Olive Blakeney

Synopsis: The Three Maxims are trapeze artists Pat (Anna Neagle), Toni (Tuilio Carminati) and Mac (Leslie Banks). After spending most of their careers in the small time, the threesome finally get their big chance in Paris, at which point Mac realizes he's in love with Pat. Too shy to propose, he asks Toni Read More

Nell Gwyn

Actors: Anna Neagle, Cedric Hardwicke, Jeanne de Casalis, Lawrence Anderson, Miles Malleson

Synopsis: Anna Neagle is every other inch a lady in the frolicsome costume epic Nell Gwyn. The star is of course cast as the title character, the lusty orange vendor-turned-actress who becomes the "great and good friend" of merry monarch King Charles II (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). This is not to the liking of Read More

The Runaway Queen

Synopsis: In this musical, set in the mythical country of Ruritania, a princess finds herself exiled by revolutionaries before she can ascend her rightful throne. She returns and takes over as soon as the revolution fails; soon she and the former leader fall in love, marry, and form a democratic monarchy. Read More

Bitter Sweet

Actors: Anna Neagle, Fernand Gravey, Esme Percy, Clifford Heatherley, Ivy St. Helier

Synopsis: The first of two film versions of Noel Coward's operetta, 1933's Bitter Sweet stars British favorite Anna Neagle and continental star Fernand Graavey (who spelled his name "Gravet" in Hollywood). The wisp of a plot finds Victorian Neagle persuading Graavey to march her to the altar. A brilliant Read More

The Little Damozel

Actors: Anna Neagle, Benita Hume, James Rennie, Athole Stewart, Alfred Drayton

Synopsis: In this drama, a gambler takes a bet and marries a strong-willed showgirl. Sometime after the wedding, the two fall in love, but then she decides to divorce him and go back to dancing. The broken hearted fellow decides to kill himself, but he wants to make it look like an accident so that she will Read More

Magic Night

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Clive Currie, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: A general's son, Buchanan, calls off his engagement to countess Bland when he falls in love with flower girl Neagle who becomes an opera singer. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Flag Lieutenant

Actors: Henry Edwards, Peter Gawthorne, O.B. Clarence, Joyce Bland, Anna Neagle

Synopsis: In this war drama, a British naval lieutenant performs heroically during a raid upon a Chinese fort, but then gives all the glory to his friend who promptly gets promoted while the real hero is branded a coward. Eventually another officer realizes the mistake and the hero gets his due. ~ Sandra Read More

The Chinese Bungalow

Actors: Matheson Lang, Jill Esmond, Anna Neagle, Derek Williams, Ballard Berkeley

Synopsis: The second of three versions of the Marion Osmond-James Corbett stage melodrama The Chinese Bungalow, this one was adapted for the screen by the playwrights themselves. Jill Esmond (then the wife of Laurence Olivier) plays Jean, a British girl who foolishly marries Chinese mandarin Yuan Sing (Matheson Lang Read More

Should a Doctor Tell?

Actors: Norah Baring, Basil Gill, Gladys Jennings, Maurice Evans, Anna Neagle

Synopsis: Dr. Bruce Smith (Basil Gill) refuses to violate his Hippocratic oath of secrecy by testifying in a divorce case. This earns him widespread public approval but ends up boomeranging on him when he learns that his son Roger's (Maurice Evans) fiancee Joan (Norah Murray) is pregnant with another man's Read More

School for Scandal

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Basil Gill, Henry Hewitt, Ian Fleming, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: Richard Brinsley Sheridan's stage comedy The School for Scandal made theatrical history in 1777 as the first play to use an onstage prop (a dressing screen) as an important plot device. While this proved exciting to 18th-century audiences, the effect wasn't quite the same when the Sheridan play Read More