Perhaps Esther Williams’ best known film, Million Dollar Mermaid tells the highly fictionalized life story of Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman. Things begin in Australia, where the young Annette (Donna Corcoran) is confined to leg braces. Her father, Frederick Kellerman (Walter Pidgeon), runs a conservatory of music out of their house, unaware that is daughter is walking to a nearby lake every day to swim. Once
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Every mother wants to believe her child is an angel, no matter how badly behaved they are. Such is the premise of The Bad Seed, a pseudo-camp horror classic that went a long way in convincing that cute, little blonde kids are evil. Written by novelist William March in 1954, Maxwell Anderson (What Price Glory, Key Largo) successfully adapted The Bad Seed for the stage