Anna Neagle

Anna Neagle

Born: October 20, 1904
Died: June 3, 1986
in Forest Gate, Essex, England, UK
Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox (October 20, 1904 - June 3, 1986), DBE, known professionally as Anna Neagle, was an English stage and film actress, singer and dancer. Neagle was a successful box-office draw in the British cinema for 20 years and was voted the most popular star in Britain in 1949.

Movies for Anna Neagle...

Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Fanny Soane
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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The Lady is a Square
Title: The Lady is a Square
Character: Frances Baring
Released: February 3, 1959
Type: Movie
Neagle stars as Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who has fallen for Baring's daughter Joanna, played by a young Janette Scott.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Character: Mary Randall, Q.C.
Released: January 21, 1958
Type: Movie
American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting East block scientist they want him to debrief. The commies are less than amused and set Dr. Smith up for a murder.
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No Time for Tears
Title: No Time for Tears
Character: Matron Eleanor Hammond
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: Movie
No Time for Tears is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of the challenges faced by all those who enter this most demanding yet rewarding of professions – from routine operations to more serious conditions, from anxious, sometimes hostile parents to workplace romance. The lives of the staff and patients of Mayfield Children's Hospital are inextricably woven together with the laughter, tears and devotion that lie behind the work of restoring children to health and happiness.
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My Teenage Daughter
Title: My Teenage Daughter
Character: Valerie Carr
Released: June 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.
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King's Rhapsody
Title: King's Rhapsody
Character: Marta Karillos
Released: June 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Flynn plays the exciled Ruritanian king who leaves his mistress to return home to a political marriage. Love versus duty in this enjoyable romantic film.
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Lilacs in the Spring
Title: Lilacs in the Spring
Character: Carole Beaumont
Released: December 21, 1954
Type: Movie
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
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Derby Day
Title: Derby Day
Character: Lady Helen Forbes
Released: June 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class couple who are excited about their chance to go to the races, but end up listening to it on the radio in the car-park because they've got such a bad view.
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The Lady with a Lamp
Title: The Lady with a Lamp
Character: Florence Nightingale
Released: September 22, 1951
Type: Movie
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.
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Odette
Title: Odette
Character: Odette
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: Movie
The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. (From Wikipedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA)
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Maytime in Mayfair
Title: Maytime in Mayfair
Character: Eileen Grahame
Released: May 24, 1949
Type: Movie
Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as quickly as possible, but on meeting Ellen, chief designer and manager, he quickly changes his mind and turns his attention to courting her.
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Elizabeth of Ladymead
Title: Elizabeth of Ladymead
Character: Beth in 1854 / Elizabeth in 1903 / Betty in 1919 / Liz in 1946
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
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Spring in Park Lane
Title: Spring in Park Lane
Character: Judy Howard
Released: March 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Life in the normally tranquil high society home of Joshua Howard is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious footman in this sparkling British romantic comedy hit. Richard acts like anything but a servant. He has aristocratic airs and graces, an expert knowledge of fine art and can play classical music and boogie-woogie on a grand piano with equal aplomb. And is that an Old Etonian tie he's wearing? Judy, is determined to discover Richard's true identity and the reason he's posing as a lowly footman. Bored with the attentions of vain movie stars and eccentric minor nobility, she's captivated by his easy-going charm and ready to fall. But will his scandalous secret come between them and true happiness?
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The Courtneys of Curzon Street
Title: The Courtneys of Curzon Street
Character: Kate O'Halloran
Released: April 11, 1947
Type: Movie
On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then follows their family through four generations, with separations, joys, tragedies, and service in the Boer War, WWI, and WWII.
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Piccadilly Incident
Title: Piccadilly Incident
Character: Diana Fraser
Released: August 24, 1946
Type: Movie
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.
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I Live in Grosvenor Square
Title: I Live in Grosvenor Square
Character: Lady Patricia Fairfax
Released: July 20, 1945
Type: Movie
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
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The Volunteer
Title: The Volunteer
Character: Herself
Released: January 10, 1944
Type: Movie
World War II propaganda film.
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Yellow Canary
Title: Yellow Canary
Character: Sally Maitland
Released: December 13, 1943
Type: Movie
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
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Forever and a Day
Title: Forever and a Day
Character: Susan Trenchard
Released: January 21, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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They Flew Alone
Title: They Flew Alone
Character: Amy Johnson
Released: June 29, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
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Sunny
Title: Sunny
Character: Sunny O'Sullivan
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It stars Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Frieda Inescort, and Helen Westley.
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No, No, Nanette
Title: No, No, Nanette
Character: Nanette
Released: December 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
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Irene
Title: Irene
Character: Irene O'Dare
Released: April 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.
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Nurse Edith Cavell
Title: Nurse Edith Cavell
Character: Nurse Edith Cavell
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
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Sixty Glorious Years
Title: Sixty Glorious Years
Character: Queen Victoria
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
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Victoria the Great
Title: Victoria the Great
Character: Queen Victoria
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
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Limelight
Title: Limelight
Character: Marjorie Kay
Released: June 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer to give him a shot at stardom.
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London Melody
Title: London Melody
Character: Jacqueline
Released: February 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musical training. She ends up falling in love with one of his underlings. It turns out that he is no good, will the diplomat save her?
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The Three Maxims
Title: The Three Maxims
Character: Pat
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
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.
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Peg of Old Drury
Title: Peg of Old Drury
Character: Peg Woffington
Released: August 27, 1935
Type: Movie
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
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Nell Gwyn
Title: Nell Gwyn
Character: Nell Gwyn
Released: August 1, 1934
Type: Movie
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
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The Queen's Affair
Title: The Queen's Affair
Character: Queen Nadina
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Bitter Sweet
Title: Bitter Sweet
Character: Sari Linden
Released: August 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. However, their marriage is threatened by a wealthy man.....
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The Little Damozel
Title: The Little Damozel
Character: Julie Alardy
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.
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The Flag Lieutenant
Title: The Flag Lieutenant
Character: Hermione Wynne
Released: October 16, 1932
Type: Movie
A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice
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Good Night, Vienna
Title: Good Night, Vienna
Character: Viki
Released: March 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a note to Vicki and goes off to war. Unfortunately the note is lost. Some time after the war, Max is just a shoe shop assistant while Vicki is now a famous singer. They meet and at first she snubs him but then falls in love with him again
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The Chinese Bungalow
Title: The Chinese Bungalow
Character: Charlotte Merivale
Released: September 26, 1930
Type: Movie
A young British woman marries a Chinese mandarin then falls in love with an Englishman. The mandarin plots his revenge.
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Should a Doctor Tell?
Title: Should a Doctor Tell?
Character: Muriel Ashton
Released: September 26, 1930
Type: Movie
A doctor agonises over whether to tell his son that the woman he is marrying is pregnant by another man, although this would mean breaking the hypocratic oath.
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The School for Scandal
Title: The School for Scandal
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Charles (Henry Hewitt), Joseph (Ian Fleming), and Sir Benjamin (John Charlton) are in love with Maria (Dodo Watts), and Lady Sneerwell (Anne Grey) is in love with Charles.
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Those Who Love
Title: Those Who Love
Released: November 26, 1929
Type: Movie
'An author marries an already-married prostitute because she resembles his dead fiancée.' (British Film Institute)