My Teenage Daughter

My Teenage Daughter
British quad poster by Brian Robb
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
Production company	Herbert Wilcox Productions
Distributed by	British Lion
Release dates	20 June 1956 (1956-06-20)
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

My Teenage Daughter at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Herbert Wilcox

Chu-Chin-Chow (1923)
Southern Love (1924)
Decameron Nights (1924)
Nell Gwyn (1926)
London (1926)
Mumsie (1927)
Tip Toes (1927)
Madame Pompadour (1927)
The Only Way (1927)
Dawn (1928)
The Bondman (1929)
The Woman in White (1929)
The Loves of Robert Burns (1930)
The Chance of a Night Time (1931)
Carnival (1931)
The Blue Danube (1932)
Goodnight, Vienna (1932)
Money Means Nothing (1932)
The King's Cup (1933)
The Little Damozel (1933)
Bitter Sweet (1933)
Yes, Mr Brown (1933)
The Queen's Affair (1934)
Nell Gwyn (1934)
Peg of Old Drury (1935)
This'll Make You Whistle (1936)
Three Maxims (1936)
London Melody (1937)
Limelight (1937)
Victoria the Great (1937)
Sixty Glorious Years (1938)
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
Irene (1940)
No, No, Nanette (1940)
Sunny (1941)
They Flew Alone (1942)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Yellow Canary (1943)
I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
Piccadilly Incident (1946)
The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947)
Spring in Park Lane (1948)
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
Odette (1950)
Into the Blue (1950)
The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
Derby Day (1952)
Trent's Last Case (1952)
Laughing Anne (1953)
Trouble in the Glen (1954)
Lilacs in the Spring (1954)
King's Rhapsody (1955)
My Teenage Daughter (1956)
These Dangerous Years (1957)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
Wonderful Things! (1958)
The Lady Is a Square (1959)
The Heart of a Man (1959)

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