Girls Town (1959)
October 5, 1959Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Mamie Van Doren
Silver Morgan
Mel Tormé
Fred Alger
Ray Anthony
Dick Culdane
Margaret Hayes
Mother Veronica (as Maggie Hayes)
Paul Anka
Jimmy Parlow
Cathy Crosby
Singer
Gigi Perreau
Serafina Garcia
Elinor Donahue
Mary Lee Morgan
Gloria Talbott
Vida
Sheilah Graham
Sister Grace
James Mitchum
Charley Boy
Dick Contino
Stan Joyce
Harold Lloyd Jr.
Chip Gardner
Robert Hardy Andrews
Writer
Charles Chaplin, Jr.
Joe Cates
Peggy Moffitt
Flo
Peter Leeds
Michael Clyde
Norman Grabowski
Skin (as Grabowski)
Jody Fair
Gloria Barker
Nan Peterson
Carhop
Karen von Unge
Sister Agnes
Susanne Sidney
Carlie (as Susanne Sydney)
Wendy Wilde
Sister Magdalene
Gloria Rhoads
Matron
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Girls Town is a 1959 American drama film directed by Charles F. Haas and starring Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé, and Ray Anthony. Paul Anka also appears in his first acting role. Van Doren stars as a juvenile delinquent who is sent to a girls' school run by nuns, where she finds herself unable to help her sister. The film capitalizes on the 1950s rebellious-teen exploitation films, with catfights, car races, music from Anka and The Platters, and sexy outfits.
The supporting cast includes the offspring of two major silent cinema stars: Charles Chaplin Jr. and Harold Lloyd Jr. Also featured is James Mitchum (son of Robert Mitchum) and (as a nun) gossip columnist Sheilah Graham. Elinor Donahue of Father Knows Best also acted in the film. A year after making it she said: "I would just as soon forget the whole thing. In the first five minutes of the picture it was established that I was a good girl, being pushed into being a bad girl. The rest of the picture I spent doing practically nothing but crying and saying, 'Help me, help me!' It was fun making it, but it was an awful picture."
Girls Town was lampooned in July 1994 on movie-mocking television series Mystery Science Theater 3000. About 15 minutes of the actual film were cut from this version.