My Daughter Joy

1950 film

21 August 1950 (1950-08-21)

Running time

81 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishBox office£106,399 (UK)^[1]

My Daughter Joy is a 1950 British drama film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Edward G. Robinson, Peggy Cummins and Richard Greene.^[2] The screenplay concerns a millionaire who spoils his only daughter, but has a strained relationship with his wife.

The film is a loose adaptation of the 1929 novel David Golder by Irène Némirovsky, which had previously been made into in a 1931 French film of the same title. It was shot at Shepperton Studios and on location in Italy. The film's sets were designed by the art director Andrej Andrejew. It was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures.

Cast

Edward G. Robinson as George Constantin
Peggy Cummins as Georgette Constantin
Richard Greene as Larry
Nora Swinburne as Ava Constantin
Walter Rilla as Andreas
Finlay Currie as Sir Thomas McTavish
James Robertson Justice as Professor Keval
Ronald Adam as Colonel Fogarty
David Hutcheson as Annix
Gregory Ratoff as Marcos
Peter Illing as Sultan
Harry Lane as Barboza
Don Nehan as Polato
Roberto Villa as Prince Alzar
Ronald Ward as Doctor Schindler

References

^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p492
^ "BFI Film Database". Archived from the original on 4 October 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2010.

External links

My Daughter Joy at IMDb

Films directed by Gregory Ratoff

Sins of Man (1936)
Lancer Spy (1937)
Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Hotel for Women (1939)
Intermezzo (1939)
Day-Time Wife (1939)
Barricade (1939)
I Was an Adventuress (1940)
Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
The Corsican Brothers (1941)
The Men in Her Life (1941)
Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)
Footlight Serenade (1942)
Something to Shout About (1943)
The Heat's On (1943)
Song of Russia (1944)
Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
Paris Underground (1945)
Do You Love Me (1946)
Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)
Moss Rose (1947)
That Dangerous Age (1949)
Black Magic (1949)
My Daughter Joy (1950)
Taxi (1953)
Abdulla the Great (1955)
Oscar Wilde (1960)

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