The reluctant debutante [videorecording] / a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; screenplay by William Douglas Home ; produced by Pandro S. Berman ; directed by Vincente Minnelli.
Material type:
FilmSeries: Archive collectionPublication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2011.Edition: Remastered edDescription: 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits: - Director of photography, Joseph Ruttenberg; music, Eddie Warner; editor, Adrienne Fazan.
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Adult DVD
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Main Library | DVD | COMEDY Reluctan | Available | 33111007436880 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Reluctant Debutante is a vintage example of the sort of elegant, witty "polite" comedy that Hollywood used to pull off so well. Real-life husband and wife Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall are cast as newly wed Jimmy and Sheila Broadbent, two of London's more attractive aristocrats. Jimmy has a daughter, Jane (Sandra Dee), from a previous marriage; though the girl is dead set against it, Jimmy insists that Jane make her society debut in London. Daddy wants his darling daughter to meet the "right" kind of husband, but she's more interested in handsome-but-shady American musician David Parkson (John Saxon). Little does anyone know that David, secretly a titled millionaire, is actually the prize catch of the season. The matchless Kay Kendall manages to walk away with the picture, though she's given a run for her money by fifth-billed Angela Lansbury. The Reluctant Debutante was based on the play by William Douglas Home. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on a play by William Douglas Home.
Title from container.
Director of photography, Joseph Ruttenberg; music, Eddie Warner; editor, Adrienne Fazan.
Kay Kendall, Sandra Dee, Angela Lansbury, Rex Harrison, John Saxon.
It's social season in London, and amid the swirl of coming-out balls the aristocratic Broadbents are intent on giving their American-educated 17-year-old daughter Jane the right entry into society and a proper upper-class beau. One complication: flighty Mabel Claremont is eager to match that same beau with her daughter. And another: Jane, of course, has her own ideas about these matters, and an eye for a guy who's a drummer in the dance band.
Rating: Not rated.
DVD; widescreen; Dolby Digital mono.