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The Lady with a Lamp (1951)

The Lady with a Lamp (1951)

Drama
Release Date: 1951, September 22
Directors: Herbert Wilcox
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Herbert Wilcox Productions
Cast: Peter Graves, Michael Brennan, Gordon Jackson, Nigel Stock, Rosalie Crutchley, Felix Aylmer, Michael Craig, Arthur Young, Michael Wilding, Helen Shingler, Maureen Pryor, Julian D'Albie

Overview:

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.

Keywords:

based on play or musical florence nightingale crimean war (1853-56)