Julia Misbehaves is a 1948 American romantic comedy film starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon as a married couple who are separated by the man's snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when the daughter whom the man he hasraised, played by Elizabeth Taylor, invites her mother to her wedding. The film also features Peter Lawford and Cesar Romero.
This adaptation of Margery Sharp’s 1937 novel The Nutmeg Tree, which was also the basis of the 1940 Broadway play Lady in Waiting, was director Jack Conway’s final film.
The film had the working titles of 'The Nutmeg Tree', the title of the 1937 novel by Margery Sharp upon which the film was based, and 'Speak to Me of Love'.
Elizabeth Taylor turned 16 during the filming of Julia Misbehavesand also received her first onscreen kiss, from Peter Lawford.
