The Lady with a Lamp

The Lady with a Lamp

110 mins | Drama | Sept. 22, 1951

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale (Anna Neagle), 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.

The Lady with a Lamp

110 mins | Drama | Sept. 22, 1951

The Lady with a Lamp
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale (Anna Neagle), 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.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Herbert Wilcox Productions
Original title The Lady with a Lamp
Directors Frank Hollands, Elaine Schreyeck, Herbert Wilcox
Writers Warren Chetham-Strode, Reginald Berkeley

Cast

Anna Neagle

as Florence Nightingale

Michael Wilding

as Sidney Herbert (Lord Herbert of Lea)

Gladys Young

as Mrs. Bracebridge

Felix Aylmer

as Lord Palmerston

Julian D'Albie

as Mr. Bracebridge

Edwin Styles

as Mr. Nightingale

Helen Shingler

as Parthenope Nightingale

Rosalie Crutchley

as Mrs. Sidney Herbert

Maureen Pryor

as Sister Wheeler

Mary Mackenzie

as Nurse Johnson

Henry Edwards

as Howard Russell

Andrew Osborn

as Dr. Sutherland

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

Monckton Hoffe

as Lord Stratford

Cecil Trouncer

as Sir Douglass Dawson

Barbara Couper

as Mrs. Nightingale

Gordon Jackson

as Dr. Anson

Nigel Stock

as George Winch

Michael Brennan

as Purveyor

Madge Brindley

as Woman in Downing St. Crowd

Michael Craig

as Wounded Soldier