My Teenage Daughter
| My Teenage Daughter | |
|---|---|
.jpg) British quad poster by Brian Robb | |
| Directed by | Herbert Wilcox |
| Written by | Felicity Douglas |
| Produced by | Herbert Wilcox |
| Starring | Anna Neagle Sylvia Syms Norman Wooland |
| Cinematography | Mutz Greenbaum |
| Edited by | Basil Warren |
| Music by | Stanley Black |
Production company | Herbert Wilcox Productions |
| Distributed by | British Lion |
Release date | 20 June 1956 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £181,467 (UK)[1] |
My Teenage Daughter, later Teenage Bad Girl, is a 1956 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms and Norman Wooland.[2] The screenplay concerns a mother who tries to deal with her teenage daughter's descent into delinquency. It was intended as a British response to Rebel Without a Cause. It was the last commercially successful film made by Wilcox.[3]
Cast
- Anna Neagle – Valerie Carr
- Sylvia Syms – Janet Carr
- Norman Wooland – Hugh Manning
- Wilfrid Hyde-White – Sir Joseph
- Kenneth Haigh – Tony Ward Black
- Julia Lockwood – Poppet Carr
- Helen Haye – Aunt Louisa
- Josephine Fitzgerald – Aunt Bella
- Wanda Ventham – Gina
- Michael Shepley – Sir Henry
- Avice Landone -Barbara
- Michael Meacham – Mark
- Edie Martin – Miss Ellis
- Ballard Berkeley – Magistrate
- Myrette Morven – Anne
- Grizelda Harvey – Miss Bennett
- Betty Cooper – Celia
- Daphne Cave – Deirdre
- Launce Maraschal – Senator
Production
Neagle and Wilcox commissioned playwright Felicity Douglas to write a script about the generation gap.[4]
References
- ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p509
- ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/43664
- ^ Harper & Porter p.158
- ^ Neagle-Wilcox on Youth—Profits-- Random Round-Up of New Ventures By STEPHEN WATTS. New York Times (1923–Current file) [New York, N.Y] 21 Aug 1955: 101
Bibliography
- Harper, Sue & Porter, Vincent. British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference. Oxford University Press, 2007.
External links
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