I'm not so sure that was the problem. I get that actors hate being typecast, but playing a put-upon heroine (even one with an evil alternate personality) didn't work for her. Like Pickett, she has a unique quirkiness that demands she play a larger than life character like...Tracy Quatermain. What was her name on AMC? Cynthia, I think? A woman plotting to marry into money, willing to do anything to make that happen--she was perfect for that.
Mowery would have been a much better Elizabeth recast. Replacing Pickett had to be a major challenge, but since Marland wasn't that interested in the Phillip story, choosing Mowery comes across as them going, "Whatever, we need someone to play this part, she'll do."
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