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Rejected Roles of 1953
Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of 1953. Where does this sort of trivia come from? Movie fans from around the world submit this trivia to us from TV interviews, books, magazine articles, DVD commentary, and other Hollywood and entertainment sources around the Internet.

Featured 1953 Trivia:
Lee Marvin in The War of the Worlds (1953)?
Producer George Pal wanted to cast Lee Marvin as the male lead in this adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel. Marvin didn't learn of this until many years later.

See who turned down these 1953 films:
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