Peggy Cummins

Every major actress in town had tested for it.

Fox initially cast Peggy Cummins, but after filming began, Zanuck decided she wasn't right and shut down production.

He turned to Linda.

They dyed her signature dark hair a bright honey blonde, poured her into lavish 17th-century corsets, and put her front and center in a massive budget-busting Technicolor epic.

Now, the cinematography was done by Russell Harlan, it was edited by Harry Gerstad, and the music is by Victor Young.

Our cast includes Peggy Cummins as Annie-Laurie Starr, John Dahl as Barton, Bart Tehr, Barry Kroger as Packet, that's the guy who runs the carnival, And then we have Bart's sister Ruby, Annabel Shaw.

And there's a few other people in there.

Principal photography was from May to June 1949.

the bank heist was done entirely in one take and nobody who was on the street or in the bank were aware the movie was being filmed and so they're driving up and when bart says like i hope we find a parking space he really meant it because there wasn't a guarantee that there would be one and the camera was mounted in the back seat of the car they have an entire rig for it and there was really no guarantee that this would work And at the end of the sequence, someone in the background screamed that there had been a bank robbery.

There was actually a bystander who watched what was happening and just assumed the worst.

Now, John Dahl and Peggy Cummins did all their own driving in the film.

And according to the director, only one process shot was used in this film.