Teenage Rebel (1956)

A woman (Ginger Rogers) is reunited with her estranged daughter (Betty Lou Keim recreating her stage role) after eight years. The daughter resents her mother for divorcing her father (John Stephenson) for another man (Michael Rennie), who is now her husband. Based on the play A ROOMFUL OF ROSES by Edith Sommer and directed by Edmund Goulding (THE RAZOR'S EDGE). Not a bad effort, perhaps too simplistic in its execution and psychological analysis but it has a core of authenticity at its center. As the mother, Ginger Rogers is a bit too actress-y (Patricia Neal played the role on Broadway) but the rest of the cast is decent. The movie's title is a misnomer. She's not a rebel at all but just a lonely middle upper class kid who wants to be loved. Keim would marry her co-star Warren Berlinger (playing the neighbor boy) in 1960 and retire from acting. With Mildred Natwick, Diane Jergens, Irene Hervey, Louise Beavvers and a dreadful child actor by the name of Rusty Swope.