 Allyson badly wanted to play a dramatic, villainous role and,  according to her, "begged them to let me (play Ann Downs)." However,  preview audiences said "June Allyson (qv) would never, ever put  her husband in an insane asylum and leave him there. Shed at least  get him out. We had to reshoot the end of the film [where] I went  back to the insane asylum . . . So I could be good. So the public  never accepted me as anything but the wife and the girl next door."