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