Victoria The Great (1937)
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Laurence Housman's 1935 stage play Victoria Regina, which has served as a showcase for actresses as varied as Helen Hayes and Julie Harris, was adapted for the screen in 1937 as Victoria the Great. Herbert Wilcox was the producer, so no one was surprised and everyone was satisfied when Wilcox… More Laurence Housman's 1935 stage play Victoria Regina, which has served as a showcase for actresses as varied as Helen Hayes and Julie Harris, was adapted for the screen in 1937 as Victoria the Great. Herbert Wilcox was the producer, so no one was surprised and everyone was satisfied when Wilcox cast his actress wife, the beloved Anna Neagle, as Queen Victoria. The film repeats the play's episodic approach, tracing Victoria from her 1837 coronation to her Jubilee celebration sixty years later. Ms. Neagle is faultless, if perhaps a bit too self satisfied in this actor-proof role; her best scenes are with Prince Albert, played with finesse by Anton Walbrook. The Jubilee finale was originally filmed in resplendent Technicolor (derided in 1937 as vulgar) though some scattered prints are still processed in black and white. Victoria the Great was also released as Sixty Glorious Years. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Herbert Wilcox
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance
Unrated,
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Cast
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Anna Neagle
as Queen Victoria
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Anton Walbrook
as Prince Albert
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Walter Rilia
as Prince Ernest
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Mary Morris
as Duchess of Kent
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H.B. Warner
as Lord Melbourne
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Grete Wegener
as Baroness Lehzen
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Felix Aylmer
as Lord Palmerston
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C.V. France
as Archbishop of Canterbury
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James Dale
as Duke of Wellington
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Charles Carson
as Sir Robert Peel
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Hubert Harben
as Lord Conyngham
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Arthur Young
as Mr. Gladstone
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Derrick De Marney
as Young Disraeli
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Hugh Miller
as Old Disraeli
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Paul Leyssac
as Baron Stockmar
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Ivor Barnard
as Assassin
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Frank Birch
as Sir Charles Dilke
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Lewis Casson
as Archbishop of Canterbury
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William Dewhurst
as John Bright
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Wyndham Goldie
as Cecil Rhodes
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Henry Hallatt
as Joseph Chamberlain
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Tom Heslewood
as Sir Francis Grant
- Albert Lieven
- Moore Marriott
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Gordon McLeod
as John Brown
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Percy Parsons
as Abraham Lincoln
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Joan Young
as Miss Pitt
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Paul Henreid
as Bit Part
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Miles Malleson
as Physician
- Walter Rilla
