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Jenny (Australian TV movie)

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Directed by
  
Henri Safran

Starring
  
Grant Taylor

Release date
  
28 March 1962

Written by
  
George F. Kerr

Distributed by
  
ABC

Running time
  
75 mins

Jenny is a 1962 Australian TV drama.

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Plot

A 16-year-old girl considers suicide because of her family being torn apart.

Cast

  • Carolyn Keely as Jenny
  • Joan Winchester as her mother
  • James Condon as her father
  • Grant Taylor as the man her mother is in love with
  • David Yorston
  • Lex Mitchell

    • Production

    It was the first of a series of six Australian plays to be produced by the ABC in 1962. The other five were:

  • Boy Round the Corner
  • The House of Mancello
  • Funnel Web
  • The Teeth of the Wind
  • The Hobby Horse

    • Reception

    A critic from the 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?"

    References

    Jenny (Australian TV movie) Wikipedia
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