My Teenage Daughter

My Teenage Daughter

1956 · 100 min · ★ 6.3 · Drama

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.

Directed by Herbert Wilcox · Written by Felicity Douglas

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Cast

Anna Neagle Valerie Carr
Sylvia Syms Janet Carr
Norman Wooland Hugh Manning
Wilfrid Hyde-White Sir Joseph McIntire
Kenneth Haigh Tony Ward Black
Julia Lockwood Poppet Carr
Helen Haye Aunt Louisa Black
Josephine Fitzgerald Aunt Bella
Wanda Ventham Gina
Michael Shepley Sir Henry
Avice Landone Barbara
Michael Meacham Mark

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