My Teenage Daughter

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.

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.

References

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

External links

Category:1956 films
Category:British films
Category:1950s drama films
Category:English-language films
Category:Films directed by Herbert Wilcox
Category:British drama films
Category:British coming-of-age films