Teenage Doll (1957)

Interesting facts

Teenage Doll is a 1957 film noir directed by Roger Corman, starring June Kenney and John Brinkley. It was financed by Lawrence Woolner, who had previously made Swamp Women with Corman. One writer called it Corman's "most impressive teen flick".

Production

Roger Corman made the film for syndicates of theater owners, the main ones who were the Woolner Brothers, who had financed Corman's Swamp Women.

Charles Griffith was hired to write the script, based on an idea by Bernard Woolner. He saidThey wanted a gang picture, as it was the time of the street gangs and juvenile delinquents. I told them I had one called “The Rat Pack” and they said they wanted a girl gang. So I got to work on Teenage Doll, which was Larry Woolner taking the title of [Elia] Kazan’s Baby Doll .

In the original version, the girls were all stealing weapons or making weapons in order to kill the good girl...I wrote all these jokes in English to be said in Spanish. Roger called up the only Spanish agent around for that and it wound up that they were the best actors in the picture. But they were in the background the entire time! In the foreground, this Mexican girl makes a potato grenade.

Filming started on February 28, 1957. Fay Spain's casting was announced in March. Barbara Wilson was cast after Roger Corman saw her in The Man Who Turned to Stone. Barbara would later say that Corman was the most professional and work-oriented director she ever worked with.

The person next door to the filming site for exterior scenes turned on her sprinklers hoping to force Corman to pay to turn them off. Her gambit was not successful.

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