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Movie Info

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 insist that Jane attend a coming-out ball and try to marry into high society. However, Jane is uninterested in her potential suitors, including the stuck-up David Fenner (Peter Myers), and soon falls for David Parkson (John Saxon), an American drummer with a bad reputation.

Genre:

comedy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Vincente Minnelli
Producer:

Pandro S. Berman
Writer:

William Douglas-Home, Julius J. Epstein
Release Date (Streaming):

Dec 3, 2013
Runtime:

1h 34m
Production Co:

Metro Goldwyn Mayer

Cast & Crew

Rex Harrison
Jimmy Broadbent

Kay Kendall
Sheila Broadbent

Sandra Dee
Jane Broadbent

John Saxon
David Parkson

Peter Myers
David Fenner

Angela Lansbury
Mabel Claremont

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Critic Reviews for The Reluctant Debutante

All Critics (6) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (3)

A comedy with bursts of inspired lunacy.

June 14, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Matt Brunson
Film Frenzy
There are some quite funny moments in this American comedy about high-society folderol in London, but the pace is often sluggish and the atmosphere strained.

November 11, 2019 | Full Review…

Clyde Gilmour
Maclean's Magazine
A vintage drawing-room comedy that's flimsy, lacks any edge and plays out as an exercise in high style Brit comedy.

May 14, 2007 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Pedestrian Minneli comedy headlining Rex Harrison.

May 9, 2007 | Rating: 3/5

Steve Crum
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Minnelli's comedy about the British upper class is one of his least successful films due to incongruous casting of all-American Sandra Dee as the daughter of Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall.

April 25, 2007 | Rating: C | Full Review…

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
Visually creative comedy-love story.

August 26, 2006 | Full Review…

Michael E. Grost
Classic Film and Television

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Audience Reviews for The Reluctant Debutante

Mar 02, 2008

Kay and Rex sparkle like the sun, hard to believe she was dying while this was being made. Angela Lansbury provides solid support and John Saxon and Sandra Dee made a handsome couple, but it is really Kay Kendall's movie all the way.

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