 Originally, Alice was to sing a song different from "In a World of  My Own". It would be a slow ballad entitled "Beyond the Laughing  Sky", and it was a song about Alice dreaming of a new world, a world  better than her own, very much in the spirit of Dorothy Gale in  _Wizard of Oz, The (1939)_ (qv). However, Kathryn Beaumont (qv)  had difficulty singing, and it was decided that starting the film  off with a slow ballad would be a little risky on audiences. The  song we hear today, "In a World of My Own", is livelier, and was  easier for Kathryn Beaumont (qv) to sing.