Anna neagle cause of death

Anna Neagle (born Marjorie Robertson) made her stage debut as a dancer in 1917, later appearing in the chorus of André Charlot's and C.B.

Cochran's revues.

Jack Buchanan encouraged her to take on a featured role in Stand Up and Sing (1931), and her film career developed after forming an alliance, from Goodnight Vienna (1932) onwards, with producer-director Herbert Wilcox.

He produced and directed most of her subsequent films and they married in 1943.

She appeared in other British musical films in the early 1930s including Bitter Sweet, The Little Damozel (both d. Wilcox, 1933) and Limelight (d.

Anna neagle movies

Wilcox, 1935), but it was her performance as Queen Victoria in the phenomenally successful historical pageant Victoria the Great (d. Wilcox, 1937) and its sequel Sixty Glorious Years (d.

Wilcox, 1938) which cemented her prestige.

These films were also popular internationally, and led to , where she starred in Nurse Edith Cavell (1939) and the musicals Irene a