It would require a keen eye and a vivid imagination to detect in this study of Anna Neagle any resemblance to Queen Victoria. Yet it was she whom Herbert Wilcox chose to play the great queen, when the right to portray her on the screen was finally released after many years ban. Victoria the Great”, in which Anna Neagle has the title role, is the first film to deal with the life of the sovereign who gave her name to an entire era of the world’s history.
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Southland Times, Issue 23389, 22 December 1937, Page 8
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87It would require a keen eye and a vivid imagination to detect in this study of Anna Neagle any resemblance to Queen Victoria. Yet it was she whom Herbert Wilcox chose to play the great queen, when the right to portray her on the screen was finally released after many years ban. Victoria the Great”, in which Anna Neagle has the title role, is the first film to deal with the life of the sovereign who gave her name to an entire era of the world’s history. Southland Times, Issue 23389, 22 December 1937, Page 8
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