Elizabeth of Ladymead
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Elizabeth of Ladymead is a 1948 British Technicolor drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Hugh Williams, Isabel Jeans and Bernard Lee.[3] It charts the life of a British family between 1854 and 1945 and their involvement in four wars - the Crimean War, Boer War, First World War and Second World War.[4][5] In each era a Beresford is in the army and dresses in the uniform of the age in most scenes, even at home.
Elizabeth of Ladymead | |
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Directed by | Herbert Wilcox |
Written by | Frank Harvey Nicholas Phipps |
Produced by | Herbert Wilcox J.D. Wilcox |
Starring | Anna Neagle Hugh Williams Bernard Lee |
Cinematography | Mutz Greenbaum |
Edited by | Frank Clarke |
Music by | Robert Farnon |
Production company | Herbert Wilcox Productions |
Distributed by | British Lion Film Corporation |
Release date | 22 December 1948 |
Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £298,654[1] |
Box office | £154,864 (UK)[2] |
It was shot at Shepperton Studios near London. The film's sets were designed by the art director William C. Andrews. The drama was remade by the BBC as a TV production in 1949, with Patricia Burke as Elizabeth, John Robinson as John Beresford and Cathleen Nesbitt as Mother.