Anna Neagle (1904-1986), Actress and film producer
Dame Anna Neagle
Sitter in 39 portraits
Born Marjorie Robertson in Essex, she first appeared on stage in 1917, and in 1925 joined the chorus line in C.B. Cochran revues, taking her mother's name in 1930. Her first film, Goodnight Vienna (1932), was directed by her future husband Herbert Wilcox, with whom she was to make thirty-two films. In 1939 Neagle went to Hollywood and made Nurse Edith Cavell (1939), and three musicals. She was the first actress to appear on the cover of Life magazine. Returning to Britain in 1941, she made They Flew Alone, the life of Amy Johnson, and Yellow Canary (1943) about a suspected spy. She played the heroine in the film Odette (1950), about the French undercover agent tortured by the Nazis.
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1953
NPG x125065
by Bob Collins
vintage print, 1956
NPG x136346
by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
5 x 4 inch film negative, 18 April 1962
NPG x125804
by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
5 x 4 inch film negative, 18 April 1962
NPG x125805
by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
5 x 4 inch film negative, 18 April 1962
NPG x125806
by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
5 x 4 inch film negative, 18 April 1962
NPG x125807
by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
5 x 4 inch film negative, 18 April 1962
NPG x125808
by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
5 x 4 inch film negative, 18 April 1962
NPG x125809
by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
5 x 4 inch film negative, 18 April 1962
NPG x125810
by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
5 x 4 inch film negative, 18 April 1962
NPG x125811
by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
5 x 4 inch film negative, 18 April 1962
NPG x125812
by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
5 x 4 inch film negative, 18 April 1962
NPG x125813
by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
5 x 4 inch film negative, 18 April 1962
NPG x125814
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 7 August 1968
NPG x166081
Blackbird's Party at David Plunket Green's, Somewhere in Knightsbridge
by Anthony Wysard
gouache, 1927
NPG D311
Diners at Denham Studios Restaurant
by Anthony Wysard
watercolour and pencil, published 1937
NPG D312
Anna Neagle; Richard Carlson in 'No, No, Nanette'
by Unknown artist
chromolithograph, 1940
NPG D37702
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