re: William Eythe and mystery woman at the opening of the Milton J. Kreis at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=35959
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Originally Posted by MrCory
The "theatrical lady" is none other than actress Nancy Kelly who starred with Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda in Jesse James (1939) and with Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingstone (also 1939). She won a Tony for her Broadway performance in The Bad Seed in 1955, and was nominated for reprising the role in the 1956 film.
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MrCory. I agree that she resembles Nancy Kelly, but I'm not 100% convinced.
Was there anything specific that led you to deduce the woman in the photograph was her?
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As for this....
http://annyas.com/screenshots
I've always thought Nancy Kelly's performance in 'The Bad Seed' was quite strange. The way she speaks just seems so odd to me.
Nancy Kelly as Christine Penmark
http://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2...seed-1956.html
I wondered if anyone else felt the same way about her performance, so I went a' googling
Indeed, there are numerous criticisms online about her acting in 'The Bad Seed' (despite being nominated as best actress)
Here's a rather humorous example:
"By the time 'The Bad Seed' was made, the principals had given nearly a thousand performances on Broadway — and all of them played to the last row of the second balcony. Nancy Kelly's acting is so mannered that it’s almost kabuki, and her vocal cords sound as if they have been tempest-tossed for years upon the billowy main of gin, under lowering clouds of tobacco. It’s a husky voice that sounds best in its lowest register, but Kelly favors her upper register, which produces an asthmatic rasp, like the last few drops of bathwater being squeezed out of a rubber duck."
http://www.tr10023.com/?p=583
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Believe it or not, there's another performance in the film that makes Ms. Kelly's acting seem understated.
That performance belongs......
Eileen Heckart as Hortense Daigle.
http://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2...seed-1956.html
Her inebriated scene will haunt you til' the day you die.
Ms. Heckart was also nominated for 'the Bad Seed', as best supporting actress.
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And last but not least, there's the title character.
Patty McCormick as Rhode Penmark
http://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2...seed-1956.html
Believe me, she is the bad seed to end all bad seeds.
Here's one of her infamous lines....
"
Why should I feel bad, I'm not the one who died."
http://emanuellevy.com/review/bad-seed-the-1956/
Ms McCormack, at the tender age of 11, was also nominated for her role in 'The Bad Seed'. - a total of 3 nominations in the acting category.
They all lost.
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