Anna Neagle - Actor Profile

Anna Neagle

39Movies
8.0 Best Rating

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.

Top Rated Movies

★8.0
Limelight (1936) movie poster
★8.0

Limelight — A chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer to give him a shot at

Limelight

1936•Drama
★7.4
Forever and a Day (1943) movie poster
★7.4

Forever and a Day — In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The cu

Forever and a Day

1943•Drama
★7.1
I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945) movie poster
★7.1

I Live in Grosvenor Square — The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. T

I Live in Grosvenor Square

1945•Comedy
★7.0
Bitter Sweet (1933) movie poster
★7.0

Bitter Sweet — The first film adaptation, and most faithful, of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. This tells the story of Sarah

Bitter Sweet

1933•Drama
★6.8
Spring in Park Lane (1948) movie poster
★6.8

Spring in Park Lane — Life in the normally tranquil high society home of Joshua Howard is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious footman in

Spring in Park Lane

1948•Comedy

Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
1959 The Lady is a Square Frances Baring ★ 5.8 FLOP
1958 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk Mary Randall, Q.C. ★ 6.0 FLOP
1957 No Time for Tears Matron Eleanor Hammond ★ 5.0 FLOP
1956 My Teenage Daughter Valerie Carr ★ 6.0 FLOP
1955 King's Rhapsody Marta Karillos ★ 3.0 FLOP
1954 Lilacs in the Spring Carole Beaumont ★ 5.5 FLOP
1952 Derby Day Lady Helen Forbes ★ 6.5 HIT
1951 The Lady with a Lamp Florence Nightingale ★ 6.1 FLOP
1950 Odette Odette ★ 6.2 FLOP
1949 Maytime in Mayfair Eileen Grahame ★ 5.3 FLOP
1948 Elizabeth of Ladymead Beth in 1854 / Elizabeth in 1903 / Betty in 1919 / Liz in 1946 ★ 6.0 FLOP
1948 Spring in Park Lane Judy Howard ★ 6.8 HIT
1947 The Courtneys of Curzon Street Kate O'Halloran ★ 4.9 FLOP
1946 Piccadilly Incident Diana Fraser ★ 6.2 FLOP
1945 I Live in Grosvenor Square Lady Patricia Fairfax ★ 7.1 HIT
1944 The Volunteer Self ★ 4.8 FLOP
1943 Yellow Canary Sally Maitland ★ 5.1 FLOP
1943 Forever and a Day Susan Trenchard ★ 7.4 HIT
1942 They Flew Alone Amy Johnson ★ 6.0 FLOP
1941 Sunny Sunny O'Sullivan ★ 5.5 FLOP
1940 No, No, Nanette Nanette ★ 6.0 FLOP
1940 Irene Irene O'Dare ★ 6.0 FLOP
1939 Nurse Edith Cavell Nurse Edith Cavell ★ 6.4 FLOP
1938 Sixty Glorious Years Queen Victoria ★ 6.0 FLOP
1937 Victoria the Great Queen Victoria ★ 5.4 FLOP
1937 London Melody Jacqueline ★ 5.0 FLOP
1936 Limelight Marjorie Kay ★ 8.0 HIT
1936 The Three Maxims Pat ★ 0.0 FLOP
1935 Peg of Old Drury Peg Woffington ★ 6.3 FLOP
1934 Nell Gwyn Nell Gwyn ★ 6.6 HIT
1934 The Queen's Affair Queen Nadina ★ 0.0 FLOP
1933 Bitter Sweet Sari Linden ★ 7.0 HIT
1933 The Little Damozel Julie Alardy ★ 0.0 FLOP
1932 The Flag Lieutenant Hermione Wynne ★ 0.0 FLOP
1932 Good Night, Vienna Viki ★ 0.0 FLOP
1930 The Chinese Bungalow Charlotte Merivale ★ 0.0 FLOP
1930 Should a Doctor Tell? Muriel Ashton ★ 0.0 FLOP
1930 The School for Scandal Woman (uncredited) ★ 0.0 FLOP
1929 Those Who Love - ★ 0.0 FLOP