The Lady with a Lamp
6.1
110 minutes
9/22/1951
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.
Cast List
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
Colin Gordon
Gordon Jackson
as Dr. Anson
Charles Carson
Leslie Weston
Nigel Stock
as George Winch
Michael Brennan
as Purveyor
Edie Martin
Peter Hobbes
Liam Gaffney
Ann Codrington
Betty Cooper
Edward Lexy
John Vere
Olive Bonham-Carter
Basil Dignam
Florence Nightingale Allebeury
Madge Brindley
as Woman in Downing St. Crowd
Michael Craig
as Wounded Soldier