Anna Neagle, the British stage and screen star, rides a bike in the Hollywood Hills. It’s 1940, and she and her husband, the director and producer Herbert Wilcox, have come to Los Angeles to make pictures with RKO. Notably, Irene, the 1940 musical in which Neagle performs the celebrated Technicolor number “Alice Blue Gown.” In all, Neagle and Wilcox made five films with the American studio before returning to the U.K. Photo: Gaston Longet.