 Shelley Winters (qv) was determined to be tested for the part of  Alice. At the time she was being cultivated as a sex symbol, so the  night before she was due to see George Stevens (I) (qv), she dyed  her hair brown and bought some especially dowdy clothes, the kind  she had seen when she had visited a factory to see how the girls who  worked there dressed. She deliberately arrived at the meeting place  early and sat in a corner. When Stevens came in, he didnt even  notice her until he was about to leave, when he suddenly realized  that the mousy girl in the corner was actually Shelley Winters.