Blood squeezes out of the firmly-shut red elevator doors and fills the lobby.Two of the Overlook""s ime-warped occupants - a pair of young, mannequin-like twin girls (Lisa and Louise Burns), each wearing a blue party dress [are they he previous caretaker Grady""s two murdered daughters?], holding hands in a flower-wallpapered hallway, and staring grimly at the camera, appear in a cut-in for an instant between the engulfing waves of spilling blood.Many well-known actresses ested for the part of the young woman - Loretta Young, Margaret Sullavan, Anne Baxter and Vivien Leigh (her role inGone With the Wind (1939)made her participation impossible), and Ronald Colman was also considered for the male lead role.The memory of the punishment quickly fades in and out.BackgroundWitness for the Prosecution (1957)is co-writer and director Billy Wilder""s brilliant film, with crisp dialogue, a complicated and intriguing plot, unique characters and excellent acting performances." Furious and neurotic, she stomps into the bank and interrupts the meeting, demanding that he fulfill his promise of accompanying her to a dress-fitting for her ball dress for the great Olympus debutante ball to be held he following evening.