The Bad Seed

You wouldn’t be wrong to think something’s going to happen at the class picnic, where mother Christine (Nancy Kelly) visits with head of school Miss Fern (Joan Croyden) as she drops off daughter Rhoda (Patty McCormack), about whom she’s grown concerned, in The Bad Seed, 1956.

Shocking news on the radio, mom Christine (Nancy Kelly) supported by friend Monica (Evelyn Varden), her brother (Jesse White) and writer Reggie (Gage Clarke), the child Rhoda (Patty McCormack) arriving home unfazed, in The Bad Seed, 1956, from Maxwell Anderson's play.

Miss Fern (Joan Croydon), head of the school attended by the recently-drowned boy and Rhoda (Patty McCormack), arrives to query her mother Christine (Nancy Kelly) regarding unexplained facts, in The Bad Seed, 1956.

Introductions of officer-dad (William Hopper), mom (Nancy Kelly), upstairs landlady Monica (Evelyn Varden) and Patty McCormack as "Rhoda," referred to in the title, The Bad Seed, 1956, directed by Mervyn LeRoy.