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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]

My Teenage Daughter
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 (1956-06-20)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	£181,467 (UK)[1]

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.[4]

References

Bibliography

• Harper, Sue & Porter, Vincent. British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference. Oxford University Press, 2007.

External links

• My Teenage Daughter at IMDb

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