Anna Neagle
Date of birth: 1904-10-20
Place of birth: Forest Gate, Essex, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Florence Marjorie Wilcox
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
The Queen's Affair
1934-03-01
Poor New York shop girl Nadina receives the unexpected news that she is next in line to be queen of
Yellow Canary
1943-12-13
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
Odette
1950-10-02
The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom,
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1958-01-21
American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting Eas
They Flew Alone
1942-06-29
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in t
I Live in Grosvenor Square
1945-07-20
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neag
Elizabeth of Ladymead
1948-12-22
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WW
Irene
1940-04-23
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mr
Sunny
1941-05-30
A circus performer who falls in love with a rich car dealer's son, against her family's wishes. Feat
Piccadilly Incident
1946-08-24
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical
Spring in Park Lane
1948-03-17
Life in the normally tranquil high society home of Joshua Howard is disrupted by the arrival of a my
The Three Maxims
1936-01-01
The Three Maxims are trapeze artists Pat (Anna Neagle), Toni (Tuilio Carminati) and Mac (Leslie Bank
London Melody
1937-02-04
Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musi
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
1947-04-11
On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, mu
Peg of Old Drury
1935-08-27
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Face
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939-08-31
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son o
Bitter Sweet
1933-08-21
The first film adaptation, and most faithful, of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. This tell
Victoria the Great
1937-09-01
The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her mar
Sixty Glorious Years
1938-11-18
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
Lilacs in the Spring
1954-12-21
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to
The Lady with a Lamp
1951-09-22
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of th
Nell Gwyn
1934-08-01
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become clo
My Teenage Daughter
1956-06-20
Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet,
King's Rhapsody
1955-06-07
Flynn plays the exciled Ruritanian king who leaves his mistress to return home to a political marria
Those Who Love
1929-11-26
'An author marries an already-married prostitute because she resembles his dead fiancée.' (British F
The Lady is a Square
1959-02-03
Neagle stars as Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orc
Derby Day
1952-06-09
Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby
No Time for Tears
1957-10-04
The interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children's Hospital, where the doctors and n
Maytime in Mayfair
1949-05-24
Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfa
The Little Damozel
1933-01-01
A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.
The Chinese Bungalow
1930-09-26
A young British woman marries a Chinese mandarin then falls in love with an Englishman. The mandarin
No, No, Nanette
1940-12-19
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy fr
Forever and a Day
1943-01-21
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral
The Volunteer
1944-01-10
After a masterful Shakespearean performance in a London theater, Ralph Richardson is sought for an a
The School for Scandal
1930-09-05
Charles, Joseph and Sir Benjamin are in love with Maria and Lady Sneerwell is in love with Charles.
Should a Doctor Tell?
1930-09-26
A doctor agonises over whether to tell his son that the woman he is marrying is pregnant by another
The Flag Lieutenant
1932-10-16
A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice
Good Night, Vienna
1932-03-28
Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to m
Limelight
1936-05-29
A chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer t