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My Teenage Daughter
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Wikipedia article
'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. 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.Harper & Porter p.158
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
* Arthur Mullard - Club Bouncer (uncredited)
* 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.
References
Bibliography
* Harper, Sue & Porter, Vincent. 'British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference'. Oxford University Press, 2007.
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