Peg of Old Drury (1935)
1h 15m
Running Time
August 27, 1935Release Date
Peg of Old Drury (1935)
1h 15m
Running Time
August 27, 1935Release Date
Plot.
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
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Cast & Crew.
Cedric Hardwicke
David Garrick
Anna Neagle
Peg Woffington
Margaretta Scott
Kitty Clive
Maire O'Neill
Mrs. Woffington - Peg's Mother
Dorothy Robinson
Mrs. Margaret Dalloway
Leslie French
Alexander Pope
Herbert Wilcox
Director
Polly Emery
Martha the Maid
Details.
Wiki.
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 18th century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces by Charles Reade and Tom Taylor. It contains passages of 18th 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. Wilcox said the film "was enormously successful both here and in the States, artistically as well as at the box office."