Lilacs in the Spring is a 1954 British musical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Errol Flynn and David Farrar.

The film was made at Elstree Studios with sets designed by the art director William C. Andrews.

The script was based on the stage musical The Glorious Days written by Harold Purcell and Robert Nesbitt, which had been a big success for Neagle, running for two years and 467 performances.

Recovering, she is advised by her doctor to take a rest in the country and, there, another beau, Albert Gutman, prompts his grandmother, Lady Drayton (Helen Haye), to invite Carole to their family home at Windsor.

Charles arrives to tell her that all arrangements are made for her to leave with him and the company for Burma, but she refuses saying she will never marry an actor.

[7] Neagle enjoyed working with her co-star: I love naturalness and simplicity and Errol Flynn has this to a charming degree.

It's so unfair to judge people by what you read or hear and I mst confess I was not prepared to find him such a hard worker.

)[14] Among the proposed projects were a version of Somerset Maugham's Caesar's Wife[15] and a movie about Napoleon's escape from Elba, with Flynn to play an Irish soldier of fortune, but no film resulted.