My Teenage Daughter
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British quad poster by Brian Robb
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| Directed by | Herbert Wilcox |
| Produced by | Herbert Wilcox |
| Written by | Felicity Douglas |
| Starring | Anna Neagle Sylvia Syms Norman Wooland |
| Music by | Stanley Black |
| Cinematography | Mutz Greenbaum |
| Edited by | Basil Warren |
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Production
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Herbert Wilcox Productions
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| Distributed by | British Lion |
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Release dates
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June 20, 1956 |
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Running time
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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
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). My Teenage Daughter at IMDb
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