She appeared in several major fantasy and horror films when she was very young, such as Hammer Films' Dracula (1958), Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960) and The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) as well as The Day of the Triffids (1962).
Christopher Lee, who played the role of Paul Allen in this film, would later star in a more faithful adaptation of Stevenson's novel, the 1970 Amicus film, I, Monster.
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American film critic Andrew Sarris noted that the film had a "scenario so atrocious that it takes forty minutes to establish that the daughter of Dr. Jekyll is indeed the daughter of D. Jekyll".
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The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll was a low-budget 1957 horror film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and released by Allied Artists.
In North America, the film was released in 2008 along with three other Hammer horror films (The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll and Taste of Fear) on the 2-DVD set Icons of Horror Collection: Hammer Films (ASIN: B001B9ZVVC), from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
The film is a continuation of Robert Louis Stevenson's original classic novel Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, although bearing some differences to the horror classic.
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Jack Pollexfen, the scriptwriter of this film, wrote and produced a further sequel in the same vein, The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll in 1957 starring Gloria Talbott.