Was to play an adolescent version of Emmeline, like
Brooke Shields' portrayal in
The Blue Lagoon (1980), in an adaptation of "The Blue Lagoon" for Gainsborough Pictures not long after she was signed to a contract with 20th Century-Fox, the company that was to finance and co-produce the project, starring
Margaret Lockwood and
Richard Greene, but the project was abandoned after World War II started. When the project was restarted in 1946, she wanted to play the adult Emmeline in
The Blue Lagoon (1949), but
Darryl F. Zanuck refused her to travel to England to meet
J. Arthur Rank for an audition.