 The films original title was "Born Jaundiced", which the producers  understandably elected to change. To do that, they offered a $500  incentive to whichever Imagine employee who could come up with the  best alternative. As a lot of the film is set in a funeral parlor, a  lot of the suggestions were along the lines of "Mourning Glory", "In  Lieu of Flowers" and "Dearly Departed". Other alternatives included  "Vada!" (the name of Anna Chlumsky (qv)s lead character) which  was rejected on the grounds that it sounded like a South African  uprising, and "I Am Woman". Ultimately, it was the films producer  Brian Grazer (qv) who came up with My Girl (and presumably  pocketed the $500 reward himself).