![]() ![]() Shadow of a Doubt (1943) - cast: Ann Newton. ![]() According to her contract she can make only two pictures a year, these when school is out for the summer. Unlikely to be spoiled by Hollywood glamour, Edna May will go on living in Santa Rosa. Spying Edna May Wonacott, Hitchcock gave her a brief conclusive test, rushed her into the picture. He looked around Santa Rosa for such a girl, just as he had looked for houses, banks and churches. The reason for this sudden transformation came about when Director Hitchcock wanted a little girl with freckles, pigtails and glasses to play the part of Teresa Wright's young sister. ![]() Today she has a 7-year contract and a prediction from Hitchcock that she will be a star within a year. Before the Shadow of a Doubt company moved into town, 10-year-old Edna May Wonacott was just another little girl who rode home from school on a bus and occasionally helped her father run his grocery store. Besides turning Santa Rosa into a great movie studio for four weeks, Alfred Hitchcock did a final bit of magic and turned one of the city's younger children into a motion-picture starlet. ![]()
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