The Lady with a Lamp
6.6(7) 1951-09-22 110 minDrama
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.
DirectorHerbert Wilcox
WriterWarren Chetham-Strode
Original Music ComposerAnthony Collins
ProducerHerbert Wilcox
Cast & characters
Anna Neagle
as Florence Nightingale
Michael Wilding
as Sidney Herbert (Lord Herbert of Lea)
Gladys Young
as Mrs. Bracebridge
Felix Aylmer
as Lord Palmerston
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Julian D'Albie
as Mr. Bracebridge
Edwin Styles
as Mr. Nightingale
Helen Shingler
as Parthenope Nightingale
Rosalie Crutchley
as Mrs. Sidney Herbert
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Maureen Pryor
as Sister Wheeler
Mary Mackenzie
as Nurse Johnson
Henry Edwards
as Howard Russell
Andrew Osborn
as Dr. Sutherland
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Clement McCallin
as Richard M. Milnes
Helena Pickard
as Queen Victoria
Arthur Young
as Rt. Hon. William Gladstone
Peter Graves
as Prince Albert
Sybil Thorndike
as Miss Bosanquet
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Monckton Hoffe
as Lord Stratford
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Cecil Trouncer
as Sir Douglass Dawson
Barbara Couper
as Mrs. Nightingale
Colin Gordon
as —
Gordon Jackson
as Dr. Anson
Charles Carson
as —
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Leslie Weston
as —
