The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
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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 to the thousands of casualties of the Crimean War. Opposed in the uppermost circles of British government because she is "merely" a woman, Nightingale is championed by the Hon. Sidney Herbert (Michael Wilding), minister of war. Herbert pulls strings to allow Nightingale and her nursing staff access to battlefield hospitals, and in so doing changes the course of medical history. Lady with the Lamp was, as usual, produced and directed by Anna Neagle's husband Herbert Wilcox. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Anna Neagle - Florence Nightingale
- Gladys Young - Mrs. Bracebridge
- Sybil Thorndike - Miss Bosanquet
- Arthur Young - W.E. Gladstone
- Barbara Couper - Mrs. Nightingale
- Rosalie Crutchley - Mrs. Sidney Herbert
- Maureen Pryor - Sister Wheeler
- Andrew Osborn - Dr. Sutherland
- Helena Pickard - Queen Victoria
- Cecil Trouncer - Sir Douglas Dawson
- Basil Dignam
- Peter Graves - Prince Albert
- Ann Codrington
- John Vere
- Edie Martin
- Gordon Jackson
- Charles Carson
- Michael Wilding, Sr. - Sidney Herbert
- Felix Aylmer - Lord Palmerston
- Julian D'Albie - Mr. Bracebridge
- Edwin Styles - Mr. Nightingale
- Helen Shingler - Parthenope Nightingale
- Mary Mackenzie - Nurse Johnson
- Henry Edwards - Howard Russell
- Clement McCallin - Richard M. Milnes
- Monckton Hoffe - Lord Stratford
- Michael Brennan
- Nigel Stock
- Liam Gaffney
- Leslie Weston
- Peter Hobbes
- Edward Lexy
- Colin Gordon
- Betty Cooper
- Director(s):
- Herbert Wilcox
- Writer(s):
- Warren Chetham Strode
- Producer(s):
- Herbert Wilcox
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