My Teenage Daughter (1956)

6.3/10 100 min Drama

Overview

Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.

Cast

Anna Neagle

Valerie Carr

Sylvia Syms

Janet Carr

Norman Wooland

Hugh Manning

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Sir Joseph McIntire

Kenneth Haigh

Tony Ward Black

Helen Haye

Aunt Louisa Black

Wanda Ventham

Gina

Michael Shepley

Sir Henry

Avice Landone

Barbara

Michael Meacham

Mark

Ballard Berkeley

Magistrate

Edie Martin

Miss Ellis

Myrette Morven

Anne

Grizelda Harvey

Miss Bennett

Betty Cooper

Celia

Arthur Mullard

Nightclub Bouncer (uncredited)

Carol White

Girl (uncredited)

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