Who starred in a 1956 American psychological horror-thriller film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and was first became known for her role as schoolteacher Rosemary Sydney?
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The Bad Seed (1956 film) The Bad Seed is a 1956 American psychological horror-thriller film with elements of melodrama and film noir, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, and Eileen Heckart.
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Eileen Heckart Eileen Heckart (March 29, 1919 – December 31, 2001) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Primarily known as a character actress, her career spanned nearly 60 years. She first became known for her role as schoolteacher Rosemary Sydney in the original 1953 cast of William Inge's play "Picnic" on Broadway. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as the overprotective mother of a blind adult son in "Butterflies Are Free" (1972), a role she originated on Broadway before playing it in the film.
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Jenny Seagrove Jennifer Ann Seagrove (born 4 July 1957) is an English actress. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and first came to attention playing the lead in a television dramatisation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's "A Woman of Substance" (1984) and the film "Local Hero" (1983). She starred in "Appointment with Death" (1988), and in William Friedkin's horror film "The Guardian" (1990).
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Linnea Quigley Linnea Barbara Quigley (born May 27, 1958) is an American actress, film producer, model, singer, and author. She is best known as a B movie actress and is often referred to as a "scream queen" due to her frequent appearances in low-budget horror films during the 1980s and 1990s. Born in Davenport, Iowa, Quigley first pursued her career in the late 1970s shortly after moving to Los Angeles. While working at Jack LaLanne's health spa, she was encouraged by her friends to try modeling and also began taking acting and guitar-playing classes. After appearing as an extra in various films, Quigley got her first acting role in the Charles Band-produced film "Fairy Tales" (1978). She continued receiving small parts mostly in B movies. Her first bigger part was in the 1981 slasher film, "Graduation Day". Quigley followed with more films such as "Savage Streets" (1984) and "Silent Night, Deadly Night" (1984).
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A Life at Stake A Life at Stake is a 1954 American film noir directed by Paul Guilfoyle. It stars Angela Lansbury and Keith Andes.
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The Feminine Touch (1956 film) The Feminine Touch is a 1956 British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring George Baker, Belinda Lee and Delphi Lawrence. The film is based on the bestselling novel "A Lamp Is Heavy" by Canadian former nurse Sheila Mackay Russell, and consequently it was released as A Lamp Is Heavy in Canada, while it was given the title The Gentle Touch in the United States, when it was released there in December 1957.
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Dead of Night (1977 film) Dead of Night is a 1977 American made-for-television anthology horror film starring Ed Begley Jr., Anjanette Comer, Patrick Macnee, Horst Buchholz and Joan Hackett. Directed by Dan Curtis, the film consists three stories written by Richard Matheson (although the first segment, "Second Chance", was adapted from a story by Jack Finney) much like the earlier "Trilogy of Terror". The film originally premiered on NBC on March 29, 1977.
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Night of the Demon Night of the Demon is a 1957 British horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis. It is adapted from the M. R. James story "Casting the Runes" (1911). The plot revolves around an American psychologist investigating a satanic cult suspected of more than one murder.
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The Revenge of Frankenstein The Revenge of Frankenstein is a 1958 British horror film made by Hammer Film Productions. Directed by Terence Fisher, the film stars Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn and Eunice Gayson. In the US, it was released on a double bill with "Curse of the Demon".
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Swamp Women Swamp Women is a 1956 American adventure crime film, and was one of the first films directed by Roger Corman. It stars Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland, and Marie Windsor, with Mike Connors and Ed Nelson in small roles.
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You'll Like My Mother You'll Like My Mother is a 1972 American horror and thriller film directed by Lamont Johnson and starring Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy and Richard Thomas. Based on the novel by Naomi A. Hintze, the film follows a pregnant widow who travels from Los Angeles to rural Minnesota to meet her mother-in-law, who she comes to find out has sinister motives against her.
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Wild Life and Christmas Belles Wild Life and Christmas Belles is a 1958 Australian TV revue. It was shown on New Years' Eve, running from 10.55pm until a few minutes before midnight. It was filmed in ABC's Melbourne studios but was shown in Sydney and Melbourne simultaneously. The cast included Barry Humphries, who played Mrs Norma Everage. The sketch had Mrs Everage enter a special model school for the "Lovely Mother" quest.
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The Hypnotic Eye The Hypnotic Eye (1960) is a horror film, released by Allied Artists on February 27, 1960, starring Jacques Bergerac, Allison Hayes, Merry Anders, Eric "Big Daddy" Nord, and Ferdinand Demara, billed as "Fred Demara".
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The Headless Ghost The Headless Ghost is a 1959 British comedy horror film, produced by Herman Cohen and directed by Peter Graham Scott. It stars Richard Lyon, Liliane Sottane, David Rose, and Clive Revill. The films tells of three young people who spend the night in a haunted English castle. With the help of a friendly ghost, they reunite the head of the Headless Ghost with its body, thus ending its 600 years of wandering about headless. The film was made specifically as the second feature for an American double bill with "Horrors of the Black Museum" (1959).
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Nightmare (1956 film) Nightmare is a 1956 American film noir crime film directed by Maxwell Shane starring Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy and Connie Russell.
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Rosemary Dexter Rosemarie Dexter (19 July 1944 – 8 September 2010), best known as Rosemary Dexter, was an Italian film actress. Also in Vendetta for the Saint.
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A Woman Alone (1956 film) A Woman Alone (Italian: Donne sole) is a 1956 Italian drama film directed by  Vittorio Sala and Ottavio Alessi assistant director, and starring Eleonora Rossi Drago, Luciana Angiolillo and Ettore Manni.
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The Beast of Hollow Mountain The Beast of Hollow Mountain is a 1956 Weird West horror movie about an American cowboy living in Mexico who discovers his missing cattle are being preyed upon by an "Allosaurus". The "Allosaurus" would later attack local villagers in a town, and eventually be destroyed by getting lured into some quicksand and drowning.
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Kelly Curtis Kelly Lee Curtis (born June 17, 1956) is an American actress. She is best known for her film roles in "Trading Places" (1983), "Magic Sticks" (1987), and "The Devil's Daughter" (1991).
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The Light Across the Street The Light Across the Street (French: "La Lumière d'en face" ) is a 1956 French drama film starring Brigitte Bardot directed by Georges Lacombe. It was also distributed in the U.S. under the title "Female and the Flesh".
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The Birds and the Bees (film) The Birds and the Bees is a 1956 screwball comedy film with songs, starring George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor and David Niven. A remake of Preston Sturges' 1941 film "The Lady Eve", which was based on a story by Monckton Hoffe, the film was directed by Norman Taurog and written by Sidney Sheldon. The costumes for the film were designed by Edith Head.
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A Lawless Street A Lawless Street is a 1955 American Technicolor Western film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Randolph Scott and Angela Lansbury. The film is also known as "The Marshal of Medicine Bend" in the United States.