Director Alfred Hitchcock had the lovely star in mind to play the young smalltown girl who begins to suspect that her dashing uncle is a murderer.

Was considered by Alfred Hitchcock and his producer as a possibility to play the young smalltown girl who slowly realizes that her beloved uncle is the "Merry Widow Murderer."

Director Alfred Hitchcock won the interest of suave, debonair star Powell to play the "Merry Widow" murderer but Powell's studio, MGM, quashed the idea.