My Teenage Daughter
My Teenage Daughter | |
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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 |
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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
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Harper & Porter p.158
- ^ STEPHEN WATTS (21 August 1955). "Neagle-Wilcox on Youth—Profits-- Random Round-Up of New Ventures". New York Times. p. 101.
Bibliography[]
- Harper, Sue & Porter, Vincent. British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference. Oxford University Press, 2007.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1956 films
- English-language films
- British films
- 1956 drama films
- Films directed by Herbert Wilcox
- 1950s coming-of-age drama films
- British coming-of-age drama films
- 1950s British film stubs