The White Angel
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
William Dieterle
Casts & Crew
Kay Francis
Ian Hunter
Donald Woods
Nigel Bruce
Donald Crisp
Henry O'Neill
Billy Mauch
Charles Croker-King
Phoebe Foster
George Curzon
Georgia Caine
Ara Gerald
Halliwell Hobbes
Eily Malyon
Montagu Love
Ferdinand Munier
Lillian Kemble-Cooper
Egon Brecher
Tempe Pigott
Barbara Leonard
Frank Conroy
Lowden Adams
Harry Allen
Dorothy Arville
Jimmy Aubrey
Frank Baker
May Beatty
Daisy Belmore
Lionel Belmore
Wilson Benge
Robert Bolder
George Broughton
George Bunny
Rita Carlyle
David Cavendish
Fay Chaldecott
E. E. Clive
Charles Coleman
Clyde Cook
Harry Cording
Bob Corey
Thomas A. Curran
J. Gunnis Davis
W.H. Davis
Elspeth Dudgeon
Frank Elliott
Edith Ellison
Helena Phillips Evans
Herbert Evans
E.L. Fisher-Smith
Neil Fitzgerald
Mary Forbes
Art Foster
Hugh Gee
Mary Gordon
Helena Grant
Lawrence Grant
Billy Griffith
Robert Hale
Alec Harford
Gordon Hart
Holmes Herbert
Fay Holden
Harold Howard
Rose Hughes
Olaf Hytten
Boyd Irwin
Charles Irwin
Gardner James
Tiny Jones
Crauford Kent
Louis King
Edith Kingdon
George Kirby
Jerry Larkin
Raymond Lawrence
Alma Lloyd
Wilfred Lucas
Dan Maxwell
James May
Leo McCabe
John C. McCallum
Nelson McDowell
Edmund Mortimer
Henry Mowbray
Doreen Munroe
Mrs. Wilfrid North
Vesey O'Davoren
Milton Owen
Paul Panzer
Lionel Pape
Lon Poff
John Power
Harrington Reynolds
John J. Richardson
Gerald Rogers
John Rogers
Hugh Saxon
Ann Shaw
C. Montague Shaw
Maud Shearer
Reginald Sheffield
Yorke Sherwood
Edwin Stanley
Robert R. Stephenson
Houseley Stevenson
Harry Stubbs
Cyril Thornton
Zeffie Tilbury
Kit Townsend
Joseph R. Tozer
Silvia Vaughan
Fred Walton
Kathrin Clare Ward
Elizabeth Weiner
Emmy Weinniemach
Cecil Weston
Tom Wilson
Eric Wilton
Ian Wolfe
Lillian Worth
Douglas Gordon
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