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The Lady with a Lamp (1951)

Directed by Herbert Wilcox

Overview

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.

Length 110 minutes

Actors

Colin Gordon | Michael Wilding | Sybil Thorndike | Michael Craig | Charles Carson | Rosalie Crutchley | Gordon Jackson | Henry Edwards | Felix Aylmer | Peter Hobbes | Leslie Weston | Andrew Osborn | Helena Pickard | Basil Dignam | Edie Martin | Nigel Stock | Betty Cooper | Michael Brennan | Mary Mackenzie | Anna Neagle | Monckton Hoffe | Clement McCallin | Cecil Trouncer | Edward Lexy | Gladys Young | Julian D'Albie | Peter Graves | Edwin Styles | Barbara Couper | Liam Gaffney | Helen Shingler | Madge Brindley | Arthur Young | Maureen Pryor | Ann Codrington | John Vere | Olive Bonham-Carter | Florence Nightingale Allebeury