Paula Prentiss was fresh out of Northwestern University and did a fine job in her first movie role. She had such natural chemistry with Jim Hutton that they even went on to work together in a few other films. They were both quite tall for the era but Jim Hutton (Timothy is his son you know) had a drinking problem. Ann Prentiss was bananas. More @Wikipedia
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