The Reluctant Debutante

Directed by Vincente Minnelli, this fine sophisticated comedy is especially notable for the performance of the wonderful Kay Kendall, here playing the wife of Rex Harrison (her real-life husband at the time). Harrison has a daughter by a former marriage, Dee, for whom he plans a society debut in London, where she can meet all the right boys and, perhaps, find herself a high-born husband. Dee finds the British boys as interesting as a nun's memoirs, however, and is soon crazy over Saxon, an American musician with a bad reputation. All of the gossip about Saxon is false, but that's not learned until later, when Saxon suddenly becomes the recipient of a large bequest ...