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3 unusual facts about Elsie Dinsmore


Elsie Dinsmore

He is very mean to Elsie in her childhood, and is killed in the Civil War.

Approximately 31 minutes into the 1956 movie The Bad Seed (in a scene taking place one day after the mysterious drowning of her classmate), Rhoda Penmark, played by Patty McCormack, proudly announces that she will be reading her new book, Elsie Dinsmore, which she has won at Sunday School.

Approximately 80 minutes into the 1951 movie People Will Talk (in the "railroad" scene), Mrs. Praetorius breaks into tears and compares herself in her current emotional state to "a kind of idiot Elsie Dinsmore."



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