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Peg of Old Drury is a British film of genre Biography directed by Herbert Wilcox with Anna Neagle

Peg of Old Drury (1935)

Peg of Old Drury
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Genres Biography
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Peg of Old Drury is a 1935 British historical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Cedric Hardwicke and Margaretta Scott. The film is a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces by Charles Reade and Tom Taylor. It contains passages of eighteenth century Shakespearian performance, from The Merchant of Venice, Richard III and As You Like It.

The film was voted the third best British movie of 1936.

Actors

Anna Neagle

(Peg Woffington)Cedric Hardwicke

(David Garrick)Margaretta Scott

(Kitty Clive)Maire O'Neill

(Mrs. Woffington - Peg's Mother)Jack Hawkins

(Michael O'Taffe)
And :
Robert Atkins
Leslie French
Frederick Culley
Eliot Makeham
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