junemo

The dress and hat the Kitty wears at the end of this episode (when she's meeting her dad at the stage) look like a duplicate of a costume that Anna Lee wore in the Boris Karloff movie, "Bedlam". If it's the same dress, this means Kitty is wearing what may be the most famous costume of all time: Scarlett OHara's green velvet curtain dress, originally worn by Vivien Leigh. Happy to add this to this episode's trivia section, if anyone can confirm my suspicion. I know that the dress went through some restoration years ago, and that it was very fragile and discolored. Also unknown is how many of these were made and subsequently altered for use in other movies or TV shows. I believe there's another Gunsmoke episode where Kitty wears this same velvet dress, but the name of the episode escapes me. Again, if anyone can add their observations, that would be helpful, and thanks so much.