Best Movies of the 1930s

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1930s Movie Trivia: Rejected Roles

Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of the 1930s. Where does this sort of trivia come from? Movie fans from around the world submit fun trivia to us from TV interviews, books, magazine articles, DVD commentary, and other Hollywood and entertainment sources around the Internet.

Featured Trivia:

Lucille Ball in Gone with the Wind?
Lucille Ball was one of many actresses considered for the part of Scarlett.

See who turned down these 1930s films:

1930...

1931...

- Dracula (1931) (5)
- Frankenstein (4)
- The Public Enemy (2)
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1932...

- Red Headed Woman (3)
- Grand Hotel (3)
- Letty Lynton (2)
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1933...

- Lady for a Day (3)
- Design for Living (2)
- King Kong (1933) (2)
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1934...

- It Happened One Night (8)
- Of Human Bondage (1934) (1)
- Bolero (1)
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1935...

- David Copperfield (3)
- Bride of Frankenstein (2)
- Werewolf of London (2)
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1936...

- The Garden of Allah (14)
- Come and Get It (3)
- Romeo and Juliet (1936) (3)
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1937...

- Lost Horizon (1937) (4)
- Stella Dallas (3)
- A Damsel in Distress (2)
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1938...

- The Adventures of Robin Hood (5)
- Jezebel (4)
- Mother Carey's Chickens (2)
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1939...

- Gone with the Wind (51)
- The Wizard of Oz (11)
- Wuthering Heights (1939) (4)
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Popular Actors in the 1930s Click to see which films they turned down:
- Joan Crawford - Bette Davis - Greta Garbo - Barbara Stanwyck - Katharine Hepburn - Clark Gable - Miriam Hopkins - Margaret Sullavan - Robert Donat - Jean Harlow	- Charles Laughton - Laurence Olivier - Frances Farmer - Irene Dunne - Joel McCrea - David Niven - Kay Francis - Gary Cooper - Janet Gaynor - Jean Arthur