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	Patty McCormack at Hollywood.com
		Since outgrowing her youthful parts, Patricia McCormack (as she is now billed) has had a sporadic adult career, but each year a new generation comes to know her 10-year old self as "The Bad Seed".
		McCormack returned to primetime as the friend of social climber Helen Roper (Audra Lindley) on the ABC sitcom "The Ropers" (1979-80) and had a recurring role on "Dallas" (CBS, 1981-82).
		McCormack made her TV-movie debut in 1983 with "Night Partners" (CBS) and co-starred as Paul LeMat's wife in the NBC miniseries "On Wings of Eagles" (1986).
	www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Patty_McCormack/193839 (1172 words)

	Patty Duke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Patty Duke (born December 14, 1946) is an actress of the stage and screen.
		From 1972 to 1985, she was married to John Astin, the father of her actor children, Sean Astin and Mackenzie Astin (the former being conceived before her marriage to Astin, and who was subsequently adopted by Astin).
		Patty was coached by the Rosses to claim that she had not cheated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patty_Duke (1317 words)

	Patty McCormack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Patty McCormack (born August 21, 1945) is an American actress.
		She was born Patricia Ellen Russo in Brooklyn, New York, to Frank Russo, a firefighter and Elizabeth (McCormack) Russo, a professional roller skater.
		She was a model at the age of four and began appearing on television at the age of seven.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patty_McCormack (279 words)

	Montreal Mirror - Film : Fantasia : Shallow Ground
		In that film, McCormack is a devilish child who begins knocking off fellow classmates and even the family gardener when they dare to get in her way.
		I'll never forget that." And McCormack knew the role very well indeed; she had starred in the stage version of Seed the year prior to production, and the show had proven such a hit that a movie version was bound to follow.
		McCormack has continued to act, notably in such other cult-ish fare as Maryjane, The Mini-Skirt Mob and William Castle's Bug, as well as two films in which McCormack was cast as an evil parent, Mommy and Mommy 2: Mommy's Day.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2004/072204/film1.html (741 words)

	Emanuel Levy : DVD - The Bad Seed (1956) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mother Chritsine (Nancy Kelly) begins to suspect that something is wrong with her young daughter, Rhoda (Patty McCormack), when a boy is found drowned in a school picnic.
		McCormack’s career demonstrates the curse of typecasting, specifically, what do you do when you’ve been nominated for an Oscar at the age of 11 for playing a killer kid.
		In her ensuing lackluster career, McCormack went on to play other troubled characters, in "Miniskirt Mob" (1968) and in "Mommy" (1995), as “Bad Seed” smothering mother who kills to protect her daughter.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=37 (532 words)

	The Bad Seed DVD Review
		McCormack nailed the role so perfectly, I don't believe there is a young actress even today that could fill her shoes.
		In the commentary, McCormack mentions there are "crosses" throughout the movie and, with this transfer, they are hard to miss.
		Writer Charles Busch acts as a moderator of sorts as he asks McCormack quite a few questions about the filming of Seed and the stars she works with, but a lot of it is just reminiscing about the filming and not a lot is learned.
	www.horrortalk.com /reviews/BadSeed/TheBadSeed.htm (1287 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Bad Seed
		Starring Patty McCormack in her career-defining performance as Rhoda, the evil eight-year-old you love to hate, this overly-theatrical classic finally makes its long overdue on DVD debut courtesy of Warner Brothers.
		Everyone who meets Rhoda (Patty McCormack, Mommy) thinks that she's the most adorable little girl in the world, but her mother Christine (Nancy Kelly, Double Exposure) isn't so sure, especially after Claude Daigle, Rhoda's rival for a penmanship award is found dead at a riverside picnic.
		McCormack earned an Oscar nomination for her alternately lovable and viscous personalities, but the grandiose acting styles—emphasized even further by Mervyn LeRoy's close-ups-turn the film into an extreme exercise in heightened stage melodrama.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/thebadseed.php (1267 words)

	Patty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Patty had never seen a truck so big.
		Patty climbed up the ladder on the side md looked...
		The end result is a looser patty composition, which provides for better...
	javanese.encyclopedia.st /Patty (267 words)

	Intelliflix: Rent Mommy on DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Patty McCormack proves that she is an outstanding and extremely versatile actress.
		Those who have only seen her in "The Bad Seed" and in more recent years as the docile housewife on "The Ropers" are in for a great surprise and a treat as they watch this film and it's sequel.
		Kudos to both Max Allan Collins and Patty McCormack as they combined their exceptional talents to make this film and it's equally good (and maybe even better!!) sequel true classics.
	www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=4702 (591 words)

	slant // magazine.com: DVD Review - The Bad Seed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nancy Kelly plays Christine Penmark, a rusty-voiced housewife who comes to the gradual discovery that her worries about her daughter Rhoda (Patty McCormack) go far beyond her notion that she's more automatronic than personable, or that her overly polished demeanor probably leads to derision from her school peers.
		Considering that the film ends with a curtain call in which Kelly takes McCormack across her knee and winkingly spanks her (um, three murders deserves a little more than a spanking), there's a falseness about the entire enterprise that seems to go beyond mere staginess into some sort of human kabuki.
		McCormack is über-colloquial and disturbingly suggests that creepy blonde child stars can grow up to be normal-sounding adults.
	www.slantmagazine.com /dvd/dvd_review.asp?ID=417 (538 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Bad Seed -- Mervyn LeRoy - VHS
		Patty McCormack stills sends shivers up and down viewers' spines with her portrayal of the innocent-looking grade school student Rhoda Penmark, who deliberately murders a classmate because he won the penmanship medal she coveted.
		Nancy Kelly does well with the difficult role of the mother who gradually discovers that her precious baby is a killer, and William Hopper is equally good as the adoring father who fails to grasp the truth.
		Patty McCormack is excellent as the cute but malevolent Rhoda, whose frilly dresses, devious politeness, and adorable blond pigtails mask her inner monstrousness.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?userid=2VRWANF85H&EAN=85391134237 (1580 words)

	Opera japonica/Reviews/Men of Empire on CD-ROM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		McCormack's (and Odeon's?) preferences in music were already obvious at this stage, as 11 of the 60 recordings included here are of Irish songs; these appear at the end of the index arranged by composer, and give more than sufficient idea of his affinity for this music.
		To judge from the evidence here, McCormack must not have been particularly comfortable singing in French at this time, as the arias from Carmen and Mignon are in Italian and English respectively (there's also a lovely 'Spirto gentil' in Italian, but La favorite was almost always performed in Italian at the time anyway).
		Unlike both McCormack and Dawson, Stevens had an extensive operatic career; he sang a number of the big Wagnerian bass roles as well as others such as Falstaff, Mephistopheles, Prince Igor and Ramfis.
	www.operajaponica.org /reviews/cdrom/menofempirecdrom.htm (1740 words)

	Patty McCormack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Former 1950s pig-tailed child star Patty McCormack has managed to stay...
		Enfant Terrible: A Conversation with Patty McCormack (2004) (V)....
		PATTY McCORMACK I met her, not very warm.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0566478 (446 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As embodied by eleven-year-old Patty McCormack, Rhoda was a character with no precedent in film history (so much so that the censors tried to keep her off the screen).
		Her distinct presence coupled with the intensely emotional playing of the film's adult stars have made the film a cult favorite, with contemporary audiences see-sawing between laughter at the histrionics and stunned disbelief at Rhoda's evil ways.
		He recorded a voiceover introducing the film's cast and, as had been the case when the play was performed, followed the bows by having Kelly take McCormack over her knee for a good spanking.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,90508\|90510\|78406,00.html (928 words)

	DVD Authority \| DVD Review of The Bad Seed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The source of the evil would be her daughter Rhoda (Patty McCormack), an eight year old who seems to be an innocent as she could be, but her mother worries that a darker side lurks below the surface.
		McCormack is able to blend innocence and evil so well, its almost hard to like her character, as crazy as that might sound.
		This one just had to have a commentary session with star Patty McCormack and it does, as she lends her thoughts on assorted topics.
	www.dvdauthority.com /reviews.asp?reviewID=3984 (820 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Bad Seed (1956)
		The acting is over-the-top and stylized, particularly from the leads, as Rhoda goes from being sickly sweet to unhinged and menacing, and her mother moans, wails, and beats against her evil ovaries for producing such a monster.
		McCormack and Kelly would seem utterly ridiculous placed within a standard thriller, but the whole movie has a sort of heightened reality in which their overplayed emotions feel entirely appropriate.
		McCormack, Kelly, and Heckart all earned Oscar nods for their work, and Heckart probably deserved to win—her two brief scenes are showstoppers.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=6301 (1112 words)

	Mommy DVD
		Patty McCormack--so memorable as the evil, murderous little Rhoda Penmark in 1956's The Bad Seed, is outstanding in this unofficial "sequel" to that film.
		McCormack's "Mommy" is psychotically obsessed with her 12-year-old daughter Jessica Ann — so much so that when she finds out Jessica didn't get the "Student of the Year" award again, she solves the problem by murdering the teacher who didn't recommend her for it.
		She dismisses the killing as inconsequential ("a minor accident"), but the homicide detective assigned to the case suspects her immediately, and an insurance investigator who also suspects her tries to get close to Jessica Ann to find out what really happened.
	www.videoaddicts.com /catalogs/dvd/thriller/mommy.html (164 words)

	The Bad Seed
		One still has to admire McCormack's chilling portrait of absolute amorality, and the ending, though obviously imposed by the censor, is pretty damn satisfying in a morbidly hilarious way.
		Patty McCormack is interviewed for the commentary by Charles Busch, and her memories of the film are still very vivid, given how young she was at the time of filming.
		Patty McCormack is so evil, she telegraphs it a mile away.
	thegreatlands.com /store/B00027JYNK.php (1273 words)

	Monsters At Play: The Bad Seed Review
		The story revolves around the antics of eerily polite Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack), an 8-year-old girl who hides a dark side just beneath her sickly sweet veneer.
		McCormack does acknowledge this on the DVD and stresses that the heightened reality was intentional on the director's part.
		McCormack, who has had an eclectic career as an actress (she played Jeffrey Tambor's wife on the "Three's Company spin-off "The Ropers!"), is unnerving as the cunning, remorseless Rhoda.
	www.monstersatplay.com /review/dvd/b/badseed.php (1193 words)

	Intelliflix: Rent Mommy 2: Mommys Day on DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Patty McCormack, Del Close, Rachel Lemieux, Paul Peterson, Gary Sandy, Mickey Spillane, Brinke Stevens
		Patty McCormack, Academy Award-nominated for the classic Bad Seed, triumphantly returns in this "darkly witty sequel" (NY Daily News).
		Whereas "Mommy" was more of a horror thriller about a deranged mother, "Mommy 2" is essentially a straight-up murder mystery, where Patty McCormack's "Mommy" character- supposedly rehabilitated through the wonders of modern chemistry- is just one of many suspects in a series of brutal killings.
	www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=4701 (470 words)

	Patty McCormack - Reviews on RateItAll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Patty McCormack's most famous childhood role was no doubt in, "The Bad Seed".
		Patty was on a par with Jodie Foster as a chid actress and every bit as pretty and cute.
		Patty was very talented and a beautiful child.
	www.rateitall.com /i-31788-patty-mccormack.aspx (223 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Bad Seed (1956) > Printer Friendly
		Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) has the adults in her life completely fooled, but when her uncontrolled hellishness leads to murder, her mother Christine (Nancy Kelly) becomes tragically aware.
		She proceeds to give Patty McCormack an enthusiastic paddling, another moment that we stare at wondering what was intended.
		Patty McCormack appears in an illustrated interview called Enfant Terrible, mainly repeating statements she makes in her Commentary with Charles Busch, the playwright and cross-dressing actor.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=11936 (1641 words)

	Amazon.com: Bad Seed (1993) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Connections are made, and truths are revealed (along with a long buried secret), but how does a mother accept the possibility that her child, her own flesh and blood, may be a cold, methodical, remorseless monster, especially when nearly everyone else believes differently.
		Maybe I complain too much...the film did have an incredibly eerie quality throughout, and Patty McCormack did a wonderful job presenting her character, often giving me a major case of the creeps with a side order of the willies.
		The scenes with Jones and McCormack are chilling, partly because McCormack's character tends to drop the sweet, charming, adorable act knowing it won't work on Leroy, but also secure in the knowledge no one would believe him.
	home.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6300270270?v=glance (2331 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Patty McCormack is memorable as the eight-year-old liar, cheat, and murderess whose mother is convinced that she is a bad seed.
		McCormack has murdered a schoolmate because the other boy received a medal for penmanship.
		Heckart is wonderful as the alcoholic mother of the dead schoolmate and was one of three actresses (Kelly--who lost to Ingrid Bergman for ANASTASIA and McCormack were the other two) to get Oscar nominations.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=2367 (226 words)

	Patty McCormack - Photos, Bio and News for Patty McCormack \| TVGuide.com
		Well, the players may have changed, but the Brian group is still commencing for group dinners, watching sports and small talk in the kitchen.
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	www.tvguide.com /celebrities/patty-mccormack/169262 (171 words)

	The Bad Seed (1956)
		Plot: Christine Penmark comes to believe that her young daughter Rhoda is responsible for the death of Claude Daigle, a boy at school who won the penmanship medal which Rhoda felt she deserved.
		The film has dated somewhat now, but it held a real minatory charge in its time because it offered something that really dug under every expectation of the innocent and adorable golden-curled cherub that a child was meant to be.
		McCormack, Nancy Kelly and Eileen Heckart all received Oscar nominations for their parts.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/badseed.htm (518 words)

	Patricia McCormack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Mommy : Main
		Patty McCormack, Rachel Lemieux, Jason Miller, Brinke Stevens
		Patty McCormack, so memorable as the evil, murderous little Rhoda Penmark in 1956's The Ba...
		McCormack's "Mommy" is psychotically obsessed with her 12-year-old daughter Jessica Ann -- so much so that when she finds out Jessica didn't get the "Student of the Year" awar...
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/114631/moviemain.jhtml (141 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| The Bad Seed
		Like the older, hammier actors around her, McCormack could work a phrase or a bit of business to a happy death, and could even convince us in a quiet moment that there was a rather sad little girl under the murderously sweet surface.
		McCormack was apparently an unusually grounded person, particularly for a child star.
		McCormack completists (and who isn’t?) will also want to seek out Mommy and Mommy II, in which our heroine plays a grown-up bad seed who’s as pathological as ever.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /28/badseed.html (1022 words)

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