
Birthday:
10-20-1904
Deathday:
06-03-1986 (81 years)
Birthplace:
Forest Gate, Essex, England, UK
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.
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The Queen's Affair
Act like Queen Nadina
event1934
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'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
Yellow Canary
Act like Sally Maitland
event1943 star_border 5.1
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A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
Odette
Act like Odette
event1950 star_border 6.2
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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)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Act like Mary Randall, Q.C.
event1958 star_border 6
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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.
They Flew Alone
Act like Amy Johnson
event1942 star_border 6
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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.
I Live in Grosvenor Square
Act like Lady Patricia Fairfax
event1945 star_border 7.1
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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.
Elizabeth of Ladymead
Act like Beth in 1854 / Elizabeth in 1903 / Betty in 1919 / Liz in 1946
event1948 star_border 6
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Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
Irene
Act like Irene O'Dare
event1940 star_border 6
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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.
Sunny
Act like Sunny O'Sullivan
event1941 star_border 4.9
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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.
Piccadilly Incident
Act like Diana Fraser
event1946 star_border 6.2
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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.
Spring in Park Lane
Act like Judy Howard
event1948 star_border 6.8
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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?
The Three Maxims
Act like Pat
event1936
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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.
London Melody
Act like Jacqueline
event1937 star_border 5
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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?
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
Act like Kate O'Halloran
event1947 star_border 4.9
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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.
Peg of Old Drury
Act like Peg Woffington
event1935 star_border 6.3
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a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
Nurse Edith Cavell
Act like Nurse Edith Cavell
event1939 star_border 6.4
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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
Bitter Sweet
Act like Sari Linden
event1933 star_border 7
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The first film adaptation, and most faithful, of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. This tells the story of Sarah Linden's romance, the tale begins with Sarah, now older, reminiscing about her first love. As a young girl Sarah falls in love with Carl, a musician, and runs off with him to Vienna. They are happily wed and Carl earns a living conducting a small orchestra. Enter a certain Captain who sets his eye on Sarah and proceeds to shower her with his attentions, much to her dismay.
Victoria the Great
Act like Queen Victoria
event1937 star_border 5.3
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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.
Sixty Glorious Years
Act like Queen Victoria
event1938 star_border 6
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Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
Lilacs in the Spring
Act like Carole Beaumont
event1954 star_border 5.5
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A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
The Lady with a Lamp
Act like Florence Nightingale
event1951 star_border 6.1
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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.
Nell Gwyn
Act like Nell Gwyn
event1934 star_border 6.6
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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.
My Teenage Daughter
Act like Valerie Carr
event1956 star_border 6
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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.
King's Rhapsody
Act like Marta Karillos
event1955 star_border 3
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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.
Those Who Love
event1929
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'An author marries an already-married prostitute because she resembles his dead fiancée.' (British Film Institute)
The Lady is a Square
Act like Frances Baring
event1959 star_border 5.8
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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.
Derby Day
Act like Lady Helen Forbes
event1952 star_border 6.5
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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.
No Time for Tears
Act like Matron Eleanor Hammond
event1957 star_border 5
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The interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children's Hospital, where the doctors and nurses are in the business of restoring children's lives. One small child risks losing his sight, while twin boys fool the doctors over which one has appendicitis. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, new nurse Margaret Collier suffers pangs of unrequited love for houseman Dr. Nigel Barnes.
Maytime in Mayfair
Act like Eileen Grahame
event1949 star_border 6
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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.
The Little Damozel
Act like Julie Alardy
event1933
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A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.
The Chinese Bungalow
Act like Charlotte Merivale
event1930
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A young British woman marries a Chinese mandarin then falls in love with an Englishman. The mandarin plots his revenge.
No, No, Nanette
Act like Nanette
event1940 star_border 6
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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?
Forever and a Day
Act like Susan Trenchard
event1943 star_border 7.4
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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.
The Volunteer
Act like Self
event1944 star_border 4.7
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World War II propaganda film.
The School for Scandal
Act like Woman (uncredited)
event1930
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Charles, Joseph and Sir Benjamin are in love with Maria and Lady Sneerwell is in love with Charles.
Should a Doctor Tell?
Act like Muriel Ashton
event1930
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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.
The Flag Lieutenant
Act like Hermione Wynne
event1932
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A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice
Good Night, Vienna
Act like Viki
event1932
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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
Limelight
Act like Marjorie Kay
event1936 star_border 8
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A chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer to give him a shot at stardom.
Tales of the Unexpected
Act like Fanny Soane (1 ep.)
event1979 star_border 6.7
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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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