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Anna Neagle

1904 - 1986

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Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox (née Robertson; 20 October 1904 – 3 June 1986), known professionally as Anna Neagle, was an English stage and film actress, singer, and dancer. She was a successful box-office draw in British cinema for 20 years and was voted the most popular star in Britain in 1949. She was known for providing glamour and sophistication to war-torn London audiences with her lightweight musicals, comedies, and historical dramas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Neagle has received more than 1,071,822 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Anna Neagle is the 8,463rd most popular actor (down from 7,466th in 2019), the 5,814th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,177th in 2019) and the 943rd most popular British Actor.

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  • 40.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Anna Neagle ranks 8,463 out of 13,578. Before her are Masanobu Ando, Gen Hoshino, Michelle Keegan, Tom Sturridge, Wu Chun, and Josephine Langford. After her are Lee So-yeon, Tom Conway, Zuleikha Robinson, Momoko Kikuchi, Anna Samokhina, and Missy Peregrym.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Anna Neagle ranks 350. Before her are Charles R. Drew, Virginia Brown Faire, Sally Rand, Milburn Stone, Patrick Kavanagh, and Selwyn Lloyd. After her are Tom Conway, Mike Bookie, Libby Holman, MacKinlay Kantor, Jennison Heaton, and Gwen Lee. Among people deceased in 1986, Anna Neagle ranks 292. Before her are Howard Da Silva, Rudy Vallée, Robert Helpmann, Dinny Pails, Hank Greenberg, and Dorothy Ashby. After her are Bessie Head, Richard van der Riet Woolley, Romeo Rivers, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Paul Frees, and Jerry Paris.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anna Neagle ranks 5,814 out of 8,785. Before her are Lee Ryan (1983), Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (1924), Michelle Keegan (1987), Mike Gascoyne (1963), Tom Sturridge (1985), and Ian Stewart (1929). After her are Cameron Mackintosh (1946), Zuleikha Robinson (1977), Edmund Andros (1637), Jeff Noon (1957), Dorothy E. Smith (1926), and Joe Cole (1988).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Anna Neagle ranks 943. Before her are Juno Temple (1989), Emily Beecham (1984), Daniel Kaluuya (1989), David O'Hara (1965), Michelle Keegan (1987), and Tom Sturridge (1985). After her are Zuleikha Robinson (1977), Joe Cole (1988), Emma D'Arcy (1992), John Bradley (1988), Paul Rhys (1963), and Matilda Ziegler (1964).

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