Talk:Anna Neagle

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Since no one else was giving the lovely Anna her due, I decided it was up to me. The information in this article is a "cut-and-paste" job, as many different sources were used. Jimknut (talk) 00:54, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ouch! What a thing to admit. I've therefore removed the assessment here, and tagged the article for my concerns, which, as I see it, must be copyedited to remove word-for-word information from other possibly copyrighted sources. The use of the Footnotes section is incorrect also, in that the section is being used to drop personally-commented snippets and trivia into the piece without providing appropriate sources. Some of the frankly POV stuff needs to go, and the other asides need to either be intregrated into the article where relevant and then sourced correctly themselves, or removed. I would like to have a go at this myself, but cannot guarantee to find the time. Thanks. Ref ^(chew)(do) 11:58, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm hoping for yet another reappraisal of this article. I have reworked the text into a prosaic form, removed POV phrasing, and added and corrected footnotes. User:Jimknut (talk) 18:57, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Glorious Days" ran for 256 performances, and not as stated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.25.244 (talk) 18:41, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

With Ms. Neagle, I have noticed an interesting – and simultaneously frustrating – paradox:

Despite the fact that she was a major star in British films in the 1930s and 40s (as much so as Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, and Joan Crawford were in American films), there seems to be very little information written about her.

There is apparently no scholarly biography about her (unless you can count her now out-of-print autobiography), no serious critical analysis of her work as an actress or singer, no fan club (as least that I know of), and no web site devoted to her.

Only a handful of her films are currently available on DVD. A box set of six of her films was recently released in England, but in the United States (where I live), there is nothing except for the public domain Forever and a Day.

It is my hope, then, that what can be put on the Wikipedia article about her will give a "jump start" to some serious attention to her life and career. Jimknut (talk) 01:58, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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