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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