Nancy Kelly
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Nov 2, 2026
Ben RomeroVOICE_ACTOR
Well, let's see now.
Ben RomeroVOICE_ACTOR
Mrs. Gorman and her little girl Nancy disappeared on the 15th.
Ben RomeroVOICE_ACTOR
Is that right?
Joe FridayVOICE_ACTOR
Yeah,
speaker_5VOICE_ACTOR
watchdog.
speaker_5VOICE_ACTOR
But here's the interesting part.
Ben RomeroVOICE_ACTOR
Mrs. Gorman and little daughter Nancy disappeared last Thursday.
Ben RomeroVOICE_ACTOR
Now, according to Pearson, this Ralph Kane hasn't been seen around since Friday night.
Pat WalshHOST
Huh.
Pat WalshHOST
starring Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormick, Henry Jones.
Pat WalshHOST
What a great actor.
Pat WalshHOST
These are all great actors.
Zach EastmanHOST
In addition to the ending that they have to do, Leroy insists on the curtain call.
Zach EastmanHOST
Um, um and basically it says like he elects to do this um for which to the audience's comic relief patty mccormick and this is the book talking and the reason i wanted to say this is a book talking um it says um leroy elected to retain a curtain call during which the audience for the audience's comic relief patty mccormick is vigorously spanked by nancy kelly for her fictional misbehavior and i'm like i don't need to see the word vigorously spanked In the context of what you're talking about right now, enough.
Zach EastmanHOST
Enough book.
Zach EastmanHOST
I love the book, by the way.
Steven TurekHOST
But to give you an idea of what it's roughly about, I love the Google brief summary.
Steven TurekHOST
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark, William Hopper, which is Bill Mize's boy, and his wife Christine, Nancy Kelly, dote on their pigtail daughter Rhoda, played by Patti McCormick, as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breadlove, Evelyn Vardine.
Steven TurekHOST
But self-centered Rhoda has a secret tendency for selfishness and loves to accumulate gifts when they're given.
Steven TurekHOST
or stolen, in her room.
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Steven TurekHOST
So he passed away right after the book was right around the book was published.
Steven TurekHOST
So he never got to know it's success that ended up taking off doing really well as a bestseller made the play and, Um, the Marvin Leroy, Leroy, um, the director saw the play, loved the play and wanted to port the play over as much as possible because the way it was.
Steven TurekHOST
And of course we had, um, um, Nancy Kelly who plays Christine Penmark, the mom, she was in there.
Steven TurekHOST
Patty McCormick wrote a Penmark was back.
Spencer WilliamsHOST
I need to look into that more because that sounds fun.
Spencer WilliamsHOST
Nancy Kelly in The Bad Seed.
Spencer WilliamsHOST
And also another recent nomination was Demi Moore in The Substance.
Spencer WilliamsHOST
That was the one that ended up going to Mikey Madison.
Mr SniDBitSHOST
The first movie is The Bad Seed, directed by Mervyn Leroy.
Mr SniDBitSHOST
i love how they say leroy all the way through this whole movie uh starring nancy kelly patty mccormick henry jones ellen heckhart and evelyn varden and before we get to the actual review of the film we are going to hear from janine on some trivia
Jeannine DeBeanHOST
yes so uh the final film uh this was the final film of nancy kelly who plays the mother just by earning an oscar nomination for this film she never made another theatrical movie only focused on tv projects so a lot of this cast was the cast that did the stage play version of this so they kind of were all over um speaking of psycho alfred hitchcock turned down the chance to direct
Mr SniDBitSHOST
this movie
Jeannine DeBeanHOST
so i'm very
Jeannine DeBeanHOST
In 1962, Patty Duke, who interestingly took her first name due to Patty McCormick's success, would become the first youngster to win an Oscar for The Miracle Worker in
Mr SniDBitSHOST
1962.
Jeannine DeBeanHOST
Betty Davis had expressed interest in playing Christine Penmark the mother but director Mervyn LeRoy insisted on casting Nancy Kelly who had originated the role on stage.