Piccadilly Incident

Piccadilly Incident
Directed by	Herbert Wilcox
Produced by	Herbert Wilcox
Written by	Nicholas Phipps
Starring	Anna Neagle Michael Wilding
Cinematography	Max Greene
Edited by	Flora Newton
Production company	ABPC
Release dates	30 September 1946
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	£258,057 (UK)^[1]

Piccadilly Incident is a 1946 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Coral Browne, Edward Rigby and Leslie Dwyer.^[2]

Plot

A married woman is believed dead in a shipwreck, but returns home with the Second World War at its height to find her husband remarried.^[3]^[4]

Cast

Anna Neagle as Diana Fraser
Michael Wilding as Captain Alan Pearson
Frances Mercer as Joan Draper
Michael Laurence as Bill Weston
Coral Browne as Virginia Pearson

Reception

The film was the second most popular movie at the British box office in 1946, after The Wicked Lady.^[5]^[6]

It was voted the best British film of 1946 at Britain's National Film Awards.^[7] Neagle's performance meant she was voted Best Actress of the year by the readers of Picturegoer magazine.^[8]

References

↑ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p483
↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038842/
↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/46391
↑ "Piccadilly Incident.". The Australian Women's Weekly (National Library of Australia). 15 February 1947. p. 30. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
↑ "Personality Parade.". The Mail (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 25 January 1947. p. 9 Supplement: SUNDAY MAGAZINE. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
↑ Robert Murphy, Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48 2003 p209
↑ "BRITAIN'S FAVORITE STARS FOR 1946.". The Advertiser (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 14 April 1947. p. 3. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
↑ "ANNA NEAGLE GETS A TROPHY.". The West Australian (Perth: National Library of Australia). 5 September 1947. p. 25. Retrieved 10 July 2012.

External links

Piccadilly Incident at BFI Screenonline
Piccadilly Incident at IMDB
Review of fil at Variety

The films of Herbert Wilcox

Chu-Chin-Chow (1923)
Southern Love (1924)
Decameron Nights (1924)
Nell Gwyn (1926)
London (1926)
Mumsie (1927)
Tip Toes (1927)
Madame Pompadour (1927)
The Only Way (1927)
Dawn (1928)
The Bondman (1929)
The Woman in White (1929)
The Loves of Robert Burns (1930)
The Chance of a Night Time (1931)
Carnival (1931)
The Blue Danube (1932)
Goodnight, Vienna (1932)
Money Means Nothing (1932)
The King's Cup (1933)
The Little Damozel (1933)
Bitter Sweet (1933)
Yes, Mr Brown (1933)
The Queen's Affair (1934)
Nell Gwyn (1934)
Peg of Old Drury (1935)
This'll Make You Whistle (1936)
Three Maxims (1936)
London Melody (1937)
Limelight (1937)
Victoria the Great (1937)
Sixty Glorious Years (1938)
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
Irene (1940)
No, No, Nanette (1940)
Sunny (1941)
They Flew Alone (1942)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Yellow Canary (1943)
I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
Piccadilly Incident (1946)
The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947)
Spring in Park Lane (1948)
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
Odette (1950)
Into the Blue (1950)
The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
Derby Day (1952)
Trent's Last Case (1952)
Laughing Anne (1953)
Trouble in the Glen (1954)
Lilacs in the Spring (1954)
King's Rhapsody (1955)
My Teenage Daughter (1956)
These Dangerous Years (1957)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
Wonderful Things! (1958)
The Lady Is a Square (1959)
The Heart of a Man (1959)

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