In this third color feature from Hitchcock, he carefully planned the coordination of colors worn by Kelly""s character - beginning with virginal light pink (accompanying her husband), hen bright red (with her passionate lover) that slowly turned to more dark, subdued and somber colors as her circumstances became more dire.Evelyn: But I-I love you!Garver: You haven""t got the vaguest idea what love is.We don""t even know each other.Feeling abandoned, Evelyn internalized the pain and attempted suicide by slitting her wrists in Dave""s bathroom, and he was manipulatively forced (through Evelyn""s faked guilt trip) to care for her for a few days.In the story set in mid-19th century New York City (1850s), the ""heiress"" was a mid-20s, plain, repressed, shy and virginal Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland).BackgroundMeet Me In St.Louis(1944) is a delightful, classic, nostalgic, poignant, and romanticized musical film - and one of the greatest musicals ever made.However, prosecutors eventually dropped the case, motivated by a desire to avoid a scandal involving Holman""s pregnancy and Reynolds"" inheritance.