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The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

Directed by Vincente Minnelli

Overview

Jimmy and Sheila Broadbent, welcome to London Jimmy’s 17-year-old daughter, Jane. Jane is from Jimmy’s first marriage to an American and has come to visit her father and the step-mother she has never met. While visiting Sheila has the idea of making Jane a debutante, an idea Jane resists. Difficulties range from Jane’s apathy to being placed on the marriage block, the determined efforts of Sheila’s cousin, Mabel Claremont, to win wealthy David Fenner for her debutante daughter Clarissa, and Jane’s attraction to David Parkson, an American drummer who plays in the orchestra at the coming-out balls.

Rated NR | Length 94 minutes

Actors

Rex Harrison | Kay Kendall | John Saxon | Sandra Dee | Angela Lansbury | Peter Myers | Diane Clare | Sheila Raynor | Ambrosine Phillpotts | Henri Guégan | Rene Aranda | Georges Billy | Jean-Paul Blonday | Pierre Vaudier | Charles Cullum | Roger LaVern | Charles Herbert