Anna Neagle Collection - 6-DVD Box Set ( Derby Day / I Live in Grosvenor Square / The Lady Is a Square / The Lady with the Lamp / Sixty Glorious Years / Victoria the Great ) ( Four Against Fate (4 Against Fate) / A Yank in London / Queen of Destiny / 60 Glorious Years )

Anna Neagle Collection - 6-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Derby Day / I Live in Grosvenor Square / The Lady Is a Square / The Lady with the Lamp / Sixty Glorious Years / Victoria the Great
Alternate Title: Four Against Fate (4 Against Fate) / A Yank in London / Queen of Destiny / 60 Glorious Years
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
584 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Collectors Edition
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1938 - 1959 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Herbert Wilcox

Written By:
Arthur Austen
John Baines
William D. Bayles
Maurice Cowan
Pamela Bower
Nicholas Phipps
Reginald Berkeley
Warren Chetham Strode
Charles de Grandcourt
Miles Malleson

Actors:
Anna Neagle ..... Lady Helen Forbes
Michael Wilding ..... David Scott - the cartoonist
Googie Withers ..... Betty Molloy
John McCallum ..... Tommy Dillon
Peter Graves ..... Gerald Berkeley - film star
Suzanne Cloutier ..... Michele Jolivet
Gordon Harker ..... Joe Jenkins
Edwin Styles ..... Sir George Forbes
Gladys Henson ..... Gladys Jenkins
Nigel Stock ..... Jim Molloy
Ralph Reader ..... Bill Hammond
Tom Walls Jr. ..... Gilpin
Josephine Fitzgerald ..... O'Shaughnessy - the cook
Alfie Bass ..... Spider Wilkes
Toni Edgar-Bruce ..... Mrs. Harbottle-Smith
Anna Neagle ..... Lady Patricia Fairfax
Rex Harrison ..... Major David Bruce
Dean Jagger ..... Sgt. John Patterson
Robert Morley ..... Duke of Exmoor
Nancy Price ..... Mrs. Wilson
Irene Vanbrugh ..... Mrs. Catchpole
Jane Darwell ..... Mrs. Patterson
Elliott Arluck ..... Sgt. Benjie Greenburg
Walter Hudd ..... Vicar
Edward Rigby ..... Innkeeper
Cecil Ramage ..... Trewhewy
Irene Manning ..... Herself - U.S.O. Singer
Francis Pierlot ..... Postman
Aubrey Mallalieu ..... Bates
Michael Shepley ..... Lt. Lutyens
Anna Neagle ..... Frances Baring
Frankie Vaughan ..... Johnny Burns
Janette Scott ..... Joanna Baring
Anthony Newley ..... Freddy
Wilfrid Hyde-White ..... Charles
Christopher Rhodes ..... Greenslade
Kenneth Cope ..... Derek
Josephine Fitzgerald ..... Mrs. Eady
Harold Kasket ..... Spolenski
John Le Mesurier ..... Fergusson
Ted Lune ..... Harry Shuttleworth
Mary Peach ..... Mrs. Freddy
Anna Neagle ..... Florence Nightingale
Michael Wilding ..... Sidney Herbert (Lord Herbert of Lea)
Gladys Young ..... Mrs. Bracebridge
Felix Aylmer ..... Lord Palmerston
Julian D'Albie ..... Mr. Bracebridge
Arthur Young ..... W. E. Gladstone
Edwin Styles ..... Mr. Nightingale
Helen Shingler ..... Parthenope Nightingale
Rosalie Crutchley ..... Mrs. Sidney Herbert
Maureen Pryor ..... Sister Wheeler
Mary Mackenzie ..... Nurse Johnson
Henry Edwards ..... Howard Russell
Andrew Osborn ..... Dr. Sutherland
Clement McCallin ..... Richard M. Milnes
Helena Pickard ..... Queen Victoria
Peter Graves ..... Prince Albert
Sybil Thorndike ..... Miss Bosanquet
Monckton Hoffe ..... Lord Stratford
Cecil Trouncer ..... Sir Douglass Dawson
Barbara Couper ..... Mrs. Nightingale
Colin Gordon
Gordon Jackson
Charles Carson
Leslie Weston
Nigel Stock
Michael Brennan
Edie Martin
Peter Hobbes
Liam Gaffney
Ann Codrington
Betty Cooper
Edward Lexy
John Vere
Olive Bonham-Carter
Basil Dignam
Florence Nightingale Allebeury
Michael Craig ..... Wounded soldier
Anna Neagle ..... Queen Victoria
Anton Walbrook ..... Prince Albert
C. Aubrey Smith ..... Duke of Wellington
Walter Rilla ..... Prince Ernst
Charles Carson ..... Sir Robert Peel
Lewis Casson ..... Lord John Russell
Pamela Standish ..... Princess Royal
Gordon McLeod ..... John Brown
Henry Hallett ..... Joseph Chamberlain
Wyndham Goldie ..... Arthur J. Balfour
Malcolm Keen ..... William E. Gladstone
Frederick Leister ..... Herbert H. Asquith
Derrick De Marney ..... Benjamin Disraeli
Joyce Bland ..... Florence Nightingale
Walter Rilla ..... Prince Ernest
H.B. Warner ..... Lord Melbourne
Mary Morris ..... Duchess of Kent
James Dale ..... Duke of Wellington
C.V. France ..... Archbishop of Canterbury
Arthur Young ..... Rt. Hon. William Gladstone
Greta Schröder ..... Baroness Lehzen
Paul Leyssac ..... Baron Stockmar
Derrick De Marney ..... Younger Disraeli
Hugh Miller ..... Older Disraeli

Synopsis:

A collection of the British actress's films.
In 'Derby Day' (1952), Neagle stars in a collection of comic andf dramatic stories based around the famous horse race at Epsom.
In 'I Live In Grosvenor Square' (1945), a WWII romance set around the US troops base in London, Neagle plays Lady Patricia Fairfax, in love with British Major David Bruce (Rex Harrison) until Sergeant John Patterson (Dean Jagger) arrives on the scene.
In the musical comedy 'The Lady Is a Square' (1959), Neagle is the straight-laced mother of Joanna Baring (Janette Scott), who falls for young singer Johnny Burns (Frankie Vaughan).
In 'The Lady with the Lamp' (1951), Neagle plays Florence Nightingale, the 19th century nurse and hospital crusader who managed to reform the nursing profession and make it what it is today.
In 'Victoria the Great' (1937), Neagle takes the title role in this classic account of the life of Queen Victoria. Focusing on her private life, it tells of her courtship by and marriage to Prince Albert (Anton Walbrook) and features a thrilling assassination attempt where the Prince risks his own life to protect his Queen. The film was produced by Herbert Wilcox at the request of Edward VIII.
Finally, 'Sixty Glorious Years' (1938) is a companion piece to the previous year's 'Victoria the Great', featuring further scenes from the life of Queen Victoria but this time focusing on the political events rather than the personal life. Neagle and Anton Walbrook reprise their roles as Victoria and Albert.

Derby Day (1952)
Derby Day is a typically British omnibus feature, delineating the fates of several different people during a single day at the racetrack. Peter Graves (not the American actor of the same name) plays a superficial movie star who has been won in a fan-magazine raffle by housemaid Suzanne Cloutier. Michael Wilding and Anna Neagle play a pair of disconsolates who have recently lost their respective mates in a plane crash. And Googie Withers and John McCallum (who were married in real life) portray a furtive couple whose horrible secret is revealed when they head to the window to collect their winnings. Though we count at least six principle characters in Derby Day, the film was released in the US as Four Against Fate.

I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
I Live in Grosvenor Square is better known by its American release title, A Yank in London. Anna Neagle, whose husband Herbert Wilcox produced and directed the film, stars as Lady Patricia Fairfax, who enters into a brief wartime romance with American air force sergeant John Patterson (Dean Jagger). The plot proper is based on a true WW II incident, wherein an Air Corps crew deliberately sacrificed their lives to save an English village of no strategic importance. The multinational supporting cast includes Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Jane Darwell, and real-life American PFC Elliot Arluck. At the time of its release, I Live in Grosvenor Square was praised for the authenticity of its settings and characterizations.

The Lady Is a Square (1959) A musical and comedic bit of fluff without any other pretensions, The Lady Is a Square plays off the popularity of Frankie Vaughan to help carry the story as Johnny Burns, a young man with a passion for pop music. He insinuates his way into the home of the widowed Frances Baring (Anna Neagle) by pretending to be a piano tuner, in reality, he has fallen for her daughter Joanna (Janette Scott). He soon learns that the widow, dedicated to promoting a series of classical music concerts, has no cash. More than willing to help out, he takes on the job of butler and then sets his sights on getting his own hit recording out. In spite of the widow's aversion to pop music, and her aversion to his interest in her daughter, Johnny keeps at his goal of stardom. Notable in this stock storyline is the character of Johnny's brash manager, played by up-and-coming Anthony Newley, about to make it big with Stop the World - I Want to Get Off.

The Lady with the Lamp (1951)
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.

Sixty Glorious Years (1938)
A picture to storm your heart and sweep your senses . . . Drama behind palace doors . . . Drama on the battlefield . . . A world of conflict and emotion, brought to you in a picture that for sheer beauty and magnitude stands alone! . . . Don't Miss It!

Victoria the Great (1937)
Victoria The Great was made to capitalise on the royal fever of the Coronation Summer, 1937. Neagle stars as Queen Victoria opposite Anton Walbrook (The Red Shoes, The Life & Death Of Colonel Blimp) as Prince Albert. At the time it was one of the most expensive films ever produced in Britain and proved to have been worth every penny, becoming a huge hit not only at home but also in the USA, the success there spawning the sequel Sixty Glorious Years.

Features the Anna Neagle films
Set Comprises:
Derby Day: 1952
I Live In Grosvenor Square: 1945
The Lady Is A Square: 1959
The Lady With The Lamp: 1951
Sixty Glorious Years: 1938
Victoria The Great: 1937

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 12 February, 2011.