Herbert Wilcox – MRQE

London

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Lady adopts a runaway slum girl who resembles her own dead daughter.

Sunny

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It stars Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Frieda Inescort, and Helen Westley.

Limelight

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer to give him a shot at stardom.

Bitter Sweet

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. However, their marriage is threatened by a wealthy man…..

Into the Blue

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Enjoying a holiday in the sun, Mr and Mrs Fergusson are relaxing on board a chartered yacht off the coast of France – their only crew, the skipper-owner and his adopted daughter. On taking a turn around the deck, Mr Fergusson is rather put-out to discover a stowaway helping himself to the comforts of their dinghy. Though very charming, the stranger refuses to give any explanation for his presence – and the Fergussons soon find themselves involved in a rather more eventful sailing trip than they had expected!

Irene

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Upholsterer’s assistant Irene O’Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy’s, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy’s dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.

Yellow Canary

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.

Carnival

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

During a performance of Othello a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adultery..

The Lady Is a Square

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Neagle stars a Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband’s symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who has fallen for Baring’s daughter Joanna, played by a young Janette Scott.

My Teenage Daughter

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony’s fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.