List of the best Herbert Wilcox movies: Spring in Park Lane(1947), Nurse Edith Cavell(1939), Victoria the Great(1937), Dangerous Youth(1958), Wings and the Woman(1942), Maytime in Mayfair(1949), Sunny(1941), Laughing Anne(1954), Trouble in the Glen(1954), No, No, Nanette(1940), 60 Glorious Years(1938), I Live in Grosvenor Square(1945) ... ...
Romance
UK
1947
100 Minutes
Director
Anna Neagle Michael Wilding Tom Walls Marjorie Fielding Nicholas Phipps Josephine Fitzgerald
lord butler employer secretary niece love interest lighthearted playful amusing england london mansion park secret identity class conflict family romance employment suspicion discovery
The diamond merchant's niece falls for his new footman who is really an impoverished aristocrat.
Drama, History
USA
1939
97 Minutes
Director
Anna Neagle Edna May Oliver George Sanders May Robson ZaSu Pitts H.B. Warner Sophie Stewart Mary Howard Robert Coote Martin Kosleck Gui Ignon
nurse patient soldier prisoner spy engaging disheartening bleak belgium hospital pow camp courtroom prisoners of war bravery world war i imprisonment prison break escape rescue underdog
English nurse Edith Cavell is matron in a small private hospital in German-occupied Brussels during WWI. When the son of a recently deceased patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war ... See full summary »
Biography
UK
1937
110 Minutes
Director
queen prince prime minister adviser cousin husband engaging buckingham palace england castle parliament queen victoria royal life political unrest marriage rise transformation 1880s
The story of Queen Victoria from her coronation, focused on her meeting and marriage to Prince Albert and the way they established shared responsibilities until his death.
Drama
UK
1958
98 Minutes
Director
Frankie Vaughan George Baker Carole Lesley Jackie Lane Katherine Kath Thora Hird Eddie Byrne
singer army officer police officer gang members brash brooding cool intense liverpool, england army base seaside army reserve false accusations adventure pursuit underdog rise 20th century
Just after a young singer comes out with his first hit record, he is drafted into the Army.
Biography
UK
1942
96 Minutes
Director
Anna Neagle Robert Newton Edward Chapman Nora Swinburne Brefni O'Rorke Charles Carson Martita Hunt Anthony Shaw Eliot Makeham David Horne Miles Malleson
aviatrix aviator husband wife solicitor government official emotional gripping rousing thrilling england house airplane amy johnson marriage flying husband/wife relationship fame world war ii rise
The story of flyer Amy Johnson 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 ... See full summary »
Musical, Romance
UK
1949
92 Minutes
Director
An English playboy gentleman is broke when he inherits London's leading dress store in the posh Mayfair district. Instead of selling it for cash, he enters the business of "rags" for riches and romance.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1941
98 Minutes
Director
Anna Neagle Ray Bolger John Carroll Edward Everett Horton Grace Hartman Paul Hartman
circus performer car dealer son aunt major heir spirited striking engaging charming endearing uplifting america circus life new love dance numbers musical performance family feud romance discovery
The beautiful Anna Neagle stars as a circus performer who falls in love with a rich car dealer's son, against her family's wishes. Features some spirited dance numbers with Ray Bolger.
Adventure
UK|USA
1954
90 Minutes
Director
Wendell Corey Margaret Lockwood Forrest Tucker Ronald Shiner Robert Harris Jacques B. Brunius Daphne Anderson Helen Shingler Danny Green Harold Lang Edgar Norfolk
Based on Conrad's short story of a red-headed beauty of the eighteen-eighties who was a singer in an elegant Parisian night-club, whose laugh gave her the title of "Laughing Anne". Her ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1954
91 Minutes
Director
Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he settles because of the high-handed ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1940
96 Minutes
Director
Anna Neagle Richard Carlson Victor Mature Roland Young Helen Broderick ZaSu Pitts Eve Arden Billy Gilbert
aunt uncle niece artist broadway director suitor lighthearted charming endearing new york city family home theater love triangle family relationships philandering infidelity romance secrets love rivalry
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, ... See full summary »
Drama
1938
92 Minutes
Director
Anna Neagle Anton Walbrook C. Aubrey Smith Walter Rilla Charles Carson Felix Aylmer Lewis Casson Pamela Standish Gordon McLeod Henry Hallett F. Wyndham Goldie
Scenes from the reign of Queen Victoria (Anna Neagle) focus on her life with her husband, Prince Albert (Anton Walbrook).
Romance
1945
106 Minutes
Director
Anna Neagle Dean Jagger Rex Harrison Robert Morley Nancy Price Irene Vanbrugh Jane Darwell Elliot Arluck
army officer love interest soldier american man british man amusing lighthearted london united kingdom war love rivalry patriotism love rivalry 1940s
An Army sergeant (Dean Jagger) falls in love with a British major's (Rex Harrison) titled fiancee (Anna Neagle) in World War II London.
Comedy, Drama
1948
97 Minutes
Director
Anna Neagle Hugh Williams Michael Laurence Bernard Lee Nicholas Phipps Hilda Bayly Isabel Jeans Catherine Paul Jack Allen Ken Warrington Michael Shepley
soldiers wife suffragette flapper activist brooding melodramatic melancholy passionate family home affair war bride crimean war boer war world war i world war ii forbidden love temptation transformation discovery
Four generations of British wives shock their returning husbands with confessions of their wartime affairs.
Drama
1946
88 Minutes
Director
A missing Wren (Anna Neagle) returns from a desert isle and finds her husband (Michael Wilding) has a new wife and son.
Adventure
1943
98 Minutes
Director
Anna Neagle Richard Greene Nova Pilbeam Lucie Mannheim Albert Lieven Cyril Fletcher Margaret Rutherford Claude Bailey Patric Curwen Marjorie Fielding David Horne
During World War II, a double agent from Britain exposes a Nazi plot to blow up a shipping port in Nova Scotia.
Mystery & Thriller
1952
90 Minutes
Director
Michael Wilding Margaret Lockwood Orson Welles John McCallum Miles Malleson Hugh McDermott
An English newsman (Michael Wilding) figures a tycoon's (Orson Welles) suicide was murder and that the widow's (Margaret Lockwood) lover did it.