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Confession | Lightning
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Best Supporting Actress | 1957 | Eileen
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1957
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1957 | Eileen
Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1957
Best Supporting Actress | 1957 | Patty
Top Female Dramatic Performance | 1957
Budget 1,000,000 USD
The original Broadway production of "The Bad Seed" by Maxwell Anderson opened on December 8, 1954 and ran for 334 performances. Nancy Kelly won the 1955 Tony Award for Actress in a Drama for "The Bad Seed" and recreated her role in the movie. Patty McCormack, Eileen Heckart, Evelyn Varden, Henry Jones and Joan Croydon also recreated their stage roles in the movie version.
Alfred Hitchcock turned down the chance to direct.
Final film of Nancy Kelly. Despite earning an Oscar nomination for this film, she never made another theatrical movie, only focusing on TV projects.
Warner Brothers production notes for the film reported that three endings were shot. According to a November 1955 article in the Los Angeles Times, the end of the film was kept secret and the last five pages of the script were not distributed until ready to shoot.
There are creepy-looking cameos on the walls, like Rohrschach blots which go with the psychodrama story. One in particular is of a woman holding a baby or a doll at arms length, in a very menacing way.
"[How murderers are executed] Leroy: They got a little blue chair for little boys and a little pink chair for little girls."
"Leroy: You ask me and I say you don't even feel sorry for what happened to that little boy. Rhoda: Why should I feel sorry? It was Claude Daigle who got drowned, not me!"
