My Teenage Daughter

My Teenage Daughter
British quad poster by Brian Robb
Directed byHerbert Wilcox
Written byFelicity Douglas
Produced byHerbert Wilcox
StarringAnna Neagle
Sylvia Syms
Norman Wooland
CinematographyMutz Greenbaum
Edited byBasil Warren
Music byStanley Black
Production
company
Herbert Wilcox Productions
Distributed byBritish Lion Films
Release date
  • 20 June 1956 (1956-06-20)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office£181,467 (UK)[1]

My Teenage Daughter (also known as Teenage Bad Girl) is a 1956 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms and Norman Wooland.[2][3] 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 (1955). It was the last commercially successful film made by Wilcox.[4]

  1. ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p509
  2. ^ "My Teenage Daughter". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  3. ^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER (1956)". Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  4. ^ Harper & Porter p.158