''Jenny'' is a 1962 Australian TV drama.
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
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Carolyn Keely
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List of Notable People
*Carolyn Bennett (born 1950), Canadian pol ...
as Jenny
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Joan Winchester Joan may refer to:
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as Margaret Playford
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James Condon
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as Roger Playford
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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.
The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' called the play "commendably smooth" but felt it became contrived in the second act.
Production
It was the first of a series of six Australian plays to be produced by the ABC in 1962. The other five were:
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Funnel Web
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Plot
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The Teeth of the Wind
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The Hobby Horse
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Patricia Hooker
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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?"
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."
See also
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References
External links
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1962 television plays
1960s Australian television plays
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows
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