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* PlayingAgainstType: Agnes Moorhead as she got older found herself playing grouchy or hammy spinsters. Here she's the ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Agnes Moorhead Moorehead, as she got older older, typically found herself playing grouchy or hammy spinsters. Here she's the ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Hope Emerson may have played one of the most rotten prison wardens in film history, but was known for being a kind and charming woman. On the set, she played piano in between takes to entertain the cast and crew. She took the role in an attempt to educate the general public on how awful the prison system could be, after reading Virginia Kellogg's memoirs.
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** There was supposed to be an inmate called "Twitch" who was an addict. The censors didn't like this and thus Twitch never made it into the film.
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* BannedInChina: The film was banned in several states in America. When it was found out that Virginia Kellogg had based the story on her experiences in an Ohio prison, the film was banned there (despite never mentioning where the prison is set in the film).
* DawsonCasting: Marie is nineteen when the film starts and twenty when it ends. Eleanor Parker was around twenty-seven.
* DuelingWorks: The film ''Film/SoYoungSoBad'' was released the same day. That too dealt with GirlsBehindBars, though in that case a correctional school for girls.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The disclaimer that the story was fictional had to be added to get the film allowed in Canada.
* LyingCreator: Eleanor Parker was forced by the studio to say that she did really shave her head for the role. In a later interview, she said it was done with prosthetics and make-up effects.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Hope Emerson may have played one of the most rotten prison wardens in film history, but was known for being a kind and charming woman. On the set, she played piano in between takes to entertain the cast and crew. She took the role in an attempt to educate the general public on how awful the prison system could be, after reading Virginia Kellogg's memoirs.
* PlayingAgainstType: Agnes Moorhead as she got older found herself playing grouchy or hammy spinsters. Here she's the ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The project was greenlit as a vehicle for Creator/BetteDavis and Creator/JoanCrawford. Bette turned it down, refusing to do a "dyke movie". Eleanor Parker claimed in a 1949 interview that Joan was the one who recommended her for the part.
** The original title was 'The Big Cage', which would have been a TitleDrop from Harper's line to Marie "just like the big cage at the zoo, only this time you have to clean it". Other titles were 'The Cage', 'House of Correction', 'Fallen Women', 'Locked In', 'Condemned', 'The Damned Don't Cry', 'Behind Iron Girls Like Us' and 'The Foresaken'.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Author and screenwriter Virginia Kellogg pulled some strings to briefly [[GetIntoJailFree incarcerate herself in a women's prison]]. She basically just wrote accounts of what she saw while she was in there, and her screenplay was nominated for an Oscar.
* DawsonCasting: Marie is nineteen when the film starts and twenty when it ends. Eleanor Parker was around twenty-seven.
* DuelingWorks: The film ''Film/SoYoungSoBad'' was released the same day. That too dealt with GirlsBehindBars, though in that case a correctional school for girls.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The disclaimer that the story was fictional had to be added to get the film allowed in Canada.
* LyingCreator: Eleanor Parker was forced by the studio to say that she did really shave her head for the role. In a later interview, she said it was done with prosthetics and make-up effects.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Hope Emerson may have played one of the most rotten prison wardens in film history, but was known for being a kind and charming woman. On the set, she played piano in between takes to entertain the cast and crew. She took the role in an attempt to educate the general public on how awful the prison system could be, after reading Virginia Kellogg's memoirs.
* PlayingAgainstType: Agnes Moorhead as she got older found herself playing grouchy or hammy spinsters. Here she's the ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The project was greenlit as a vehicle for Creator/BetteDavis and Creator/JoanCrawford. Bette turned it down, refusing to do a "dyke movie". Eleanor Parker claimed in a 1949 interview that Joan was the one who recommended her for the part.
** The original title was 'The Big Cage', which would have been a TitleDrop from Harper's line to Marie "just like the big cage at the zoo, only this time you have to clean it". Other titles were 'The Cage', 'House of Correction', 'Fallen Women', 'Locked In', 'Condemned', 'The Damned Don't Cry', 'Behind Iron Girls Like Us' and 'The Foresaken'.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Author and screenwriter Virginia Kellogg pulled some strings to briefly [[GetIntoJailFree incarcerate herself in a women's prison]]. She basically just wrote accounts of what she saw while she was in there, and her screenplay was nominated for an Oscar.
