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Closeup of the cool British beauty named Neagle
By Hettie Crimstead
Scene at left is from "Piccadilly Incident," the new Herbert Wilcox production starring Anna Neagle with Michael Wilding.
Group above includes, from left to right, producer-director Wilcox, Michael Wilding, Anna Neagle, and British film magnate Sir Alfred jarrett, on the set of "Curzon Street," production currently in work.
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" O TARS may come and stars may go but Anna Neagle goes on forever." That's what a London columnist remarked the other day when he heard that Anna had just started work on another new film. He was expressing the general affection and the equally general amazement that's felt for this blue-eyed blonde who keeps making new movie records and breaking all the accepted movie rules with the same characteristic serenity. It never even occurs to Anna that she's completely unique in the history of the screen.
Twenty years ago shy little Marjorie Robertson, the chorusgirl daughter of a Scottish sea captain, went to Elstree Studios near London to do a day's extra work. There she met a young Irish director, Herbert Wilcox, who gave her an intensive test, changed her name and set about making her into a star. They've been together ever since, incidentally getting married, and their partnership is still as vital and as completely successful as it was when they made their first film.
Herbert has produced and directed every one of the 29 films in which Anna Neagle has acted. He has never directed any other feminine star and she has never worked for any other director. They make their own pictures completely in their own way, sometimes in Hollywood, sometimes in Britain. Several times one of the big studio corporations has made an attractive separate offer to either Anna or Herb, but it has always been refused. Neither money nor anything else can part them, either in the studio or outside it. (Please tvm to page 78 )