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Jenny is a 16 year old girl whose father, an actor, and mother, a television personality, have been separated for 15 months. |
Jenny is a 16 year old girl whose father Roger, an actor, and mother Margaret, a television personality, have been separated for 15 months. Jenny has a boyfriend, Michael, a law student. |
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Margaret tells Jenny she has met a Melbourne businessman, Rex Porter, that she wants to marry. |
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This sends Jenny out looking for her father and boyfriend. She winds up at a party at Kings Cross being held by beatniks. |
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She gets a cab driver to take her to The Gap where she intends on committing suicide. However the cab driver talks her out of it and takes Jenny home to her father. |
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Roger returns and he and Margaret realise how troubled Jenny is. They decide to try again for her sake. |
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==Cast== |
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*[[Carolyn Keely]] as Jenny |
*[[Carolyn Keely]] as Jenny |
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*[[Joan Winchester]] as |
*[[Joan Winchester]] as Margaret Playford |
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*[[James Condon]] as |
*[[James Condon]] as Roger Playford |
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*[[Grant Taylor (actor)|Grant Taylor]] as |
*[[Grant Taylor (actor)|Grant Taylor]] as Rex Porter |
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*David Yorston |
*David Yorston as Michael |
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*Lex Mitchell |
*Lex Mitchell as the beatnik |
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*Tony Carere, Joan Morrow and Kerry Collins as beatniks |
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==''Hunger of a Girl''== |
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The play appears to be based on a stage play written by Kerr called ''Hunger of a Girl''. This was set in the Blue Mountains and was about a 17 year old girl whose parents are separated and who reacts badly when her mother falls for another man. It results in the girl killing the other man. |
The play appears to be based on a stage play written by Kerr called ''Hunger of a Girl''. This was set in the Blue Mountains and was about a 17 year old girl whose parents are separated and who reacts badly when her mother falls for another man. It results in the girl killing the other man. |
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[[Patricia Hooker]] worked as script assistant. |
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==Reception== |
==Reception== |
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A critic from the Sunday ''Sydney Morning Herald'' called it "first rate drama" until the last five minutes when "it collapsed into nothingness" because it left unanswered the central question, namely "Should the partners of an unsuccessful marriage forgo their own chances of happiness for the sake of their children?... Did author Kerr simply throw up his hands and give the whole thing away?"<ref>{{cite news|first=Valda|title=Six Beauties and a Corpse|last=Marshall|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=1 April 1962|page=86}}</ref> |
A critic from the Sunday ''Sydney Morning Herald'' called it "first rate drama" until the last five minutes when "it collapsed into nothingness" because it left unanswered the central question, namely "Should the partners of an unsuccessful marriage forgo their own chances of happiness for the sake of their children?... Did author Kerr simply throw up his hands and give the whole thing away?"<ref>{{cite news|first=Valda|title=Six Beauties and a Corpse|last=Marshall|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=1 April 1962|page=86}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 12:14, 23 November 2020
| Jenny | |
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| Written by | George F. Kerr |
| Directed by | Henri Safran |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producer | Harrie Adas |
| Running time | 75 mins |
| Production company | ABC |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | 28 March 1962 (Sydney) 4 April 1962[1] |
Jenny is a 1962 Australian TV drama.[2]
Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[3]
Plot
Jenny is a 16 year old girl whose father Roger, an actor, and mother Margaret, a television personality, have been separated for 15 months. Jenny has a boyfriend, Michael, a law student.
Margaret tells Jenny she has met a Melbourne businessman, Rex Porter, that she wants to marry.
This sends Jenny out looking for her father and boyfriend. She winds up at a party at Kings Cross being held by beatniks.
She gets a cab driver to take her to The Gap where she intends on committing suicide. However the cab driver talks her out of it and takes Jenny home to her father.
Roger returns and he and Margaret realise how troubled Jenny is. They decide to try again for her sake.
Cast
- Carolyn Keely as Jenny
- Joan Winchester as Margaret Playford
- James Condon as Roger Playford
- Grant Taylor as Rex Porter
- David Yorston as Michael
- Lex Mitchell as the beatnik
- Tony Carere, Joan Morrow and Kerry Collins as beatniks
Hunger of a Girl
The play appears to be based on a stage play written by Kerr called Hunger of a Girl. This was set in the Blue Mountains and was about a 17 year old girl whose parents are separated and who reacts badly when her mother falls for another man. It results in the girl killing the other man.
This play was sponsored by the Elizabethan Theatre Trust and produced by the North Sydney Independent in September 1960 with Leonard Teale and Joan Winchester.[4]
The Sydney Morning Herald called the play "commendably smooth" but felt it became contrived in the second act.[5]
Production
It was the first of a series of six Australian plays to be produced by the ABC in 1962.[6] The other five were:[7]
Patricia Hooker worked as script assistant.
Reception
A critic from the Sunday Sydney Morning Herald called it "first rate drama" until the last five minutes when "it collapsed into nothingness" because it left unanswered the central question, namely "Should the partners of an unsuccessful marriage forgo their own chances of happiness for the sake of their children?... Did author Kerr simply throw up his hands and give the whole thing away?"[8]
The critic from the Sydney Morning Herald said "the play had all the searing truth and genuine emotion of a piece of eminently marketable woman's magazine fiction."[9]
See also
References
- ^ "TV Guide". The Age. 29 March 1962. p. 35.
- ^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 26 March 1962. p. 13.
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
- ^ "Music and Theatre". Sydney Morning Herald. 23 August 1960. p. 10.
- ^ "Kerr's "Hunger of a Girl" at the Independent". Sydney Morning Herald. 16 September 1960. p. 7.
- ^ "Young Star's Work". Sydney Morning Herald. 12 March 1962. p. 13.
- ^ "Drama Go Ahead with Six Australians with Ideas". The Age. 1 March 1962. p. 12.
- ^ Marshall, Valda (1 April 1962). "Six Beauties and a Corpse". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 86.
- ^ "Kerr Play on ABN". Sydney Morning Herald. 29 March 1962. p. 12.
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