Anna Neagle Not To Appear As Marie Lloyd
A NNA NEAGLE’S next film role is not, after all, to be Marie Lloyd, a famous music-hall star of former days.
Miss Neagle and her director, Herbert Wilcox, went to New York to attend the premiere of “Sixty Glorious Years,” and the actress was to have returned to England immediately to begin -work on the Marie Lloyd picture, but she is now discussing with Mr. Wilcox a more suitable role to follow her portrayal of Queen Victoria. “It is largely in response to letters of protest from all over the country that I have decided to drop the subject for Miss Neagle,” Mr. Wilcox said. “Judging by these letters, the sue-' cess of ‘Victoria the Great’ and ‘Sixty Glorious Years’ has established her as pre-eminently an artist for the family audience. I am afraid that her appearance as Marie Lloyd might prove a disappointment to this type of audience, and also that, in the circumstances, it would hardly be possible to do full justice to the grand character of Marie Lloyd. “I shall do the Marie Lloyd film, but with another actress in the star part.”
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 14
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194Anna Neagle Not To Appear As Marie Lloyd Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 14
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