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The Restless Years: Directed by Helmut Käutner. With John Saxon, Sandra Dee, Teresa Wright, James Whitmore. High-school life and the prejudices and moral values of small-town USA during the 1950s.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Helmut Käutner
- 1958-12
The Reluctant Debutante: Directed by Vincente Minnelli. With Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon, Sandra Dee. While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its "Debutante Season."
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- Comedy, Romance
- Vincente Minnelli
- 1958-12-25
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When 17-year-old Jane Broadbent comes to London to live with her wealthy father Lord Jimmy Broadbent, her stepmother Lady Sheila feels compelled by her own social aspirations to introduce Jane to society. Jane is bored by the debutante ballsshe attends and the young men she is introduced to, but she becomes interested in a drummer named David Parks...
Box office
The Reluctant Debutante was the 12th most popular film at the British box office in 1959. According to MGM records it earned $1,555,000 in the US and Canadaand $1,425,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of $355,000.
Critical
Varietycalled it "refreshing and prettily dressed". Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republicdescribed The Reluctant Debutante as 'a cream-puff'.
The Reluctant Debutante at IMDbThe Reluctant Debutante at Rotten TomatoesThe Reluctant Debutante at AllMovieThe Reluctant Debutante at the TCM Movie DatabaseBobby Darin. . . m.div. Children. 1. Sandra Dee (born Alexandra Zuck; April 23, 1942 – February 20, 2005) was an American actress. Dee began her career as a child model, working first in commercials and then film in her teenage years. Best known for her portrayal of ingénues, Dee earned a Golden Globe Award as one of the year's most ...
The Restless Years (film) The Restless Years. (film) The Restless Years is a 1958 American CinemaScope melodrama directed by Helmut Käutner and starring John Saxon and Sandra Dee. It was Sandra Dee 's first leading role [1] and the first of three movies she made with John Saxon. [2]
Actress: Gidget. Sandra Dee was born Alexandria Zuck on April 23, 1942 in Bayonne, New Jersey, to Mary (Cymboliak) and John Zuck. She was of Carpatho-Rusyn descent. Her mother envisioned a show business career for her daughter and would often lie about her age in order to get Sandy where she wanted to go. For example, her mother enrolled her in ...
Jane Broadbent (Sandra Dee) is an independent-minded teenager who moves to London to live with her aristocratic father, Jimmy (Rex Harrison), and stepmother, Sheila (Kay Kendall). Jimmy and Sheila ...
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