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1940s Movie Trivia: Rejected Roles

Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of the 1940s. 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:

Ronald Reagan in Casablanca?
Before the film was released, Ronald Reagan was being advertised as having the lead. Some speculate that it was a studio publicity stunt.

See who turned down these 1940s films:

1940...

1941...

- Blood and Sand (6)
- The Maltese Falcon (5)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (4)
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1942...

- Casablanca (8)
- Saboteur (6)
- Now, Voyager (3)
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1943...

- Old Acquaintance (10)
- Claudia (7)
- The Song of Bernadette (3)
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1944...

- Laura (5)
- Double Indemnity (4)
- Dragon Seed (3)
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1945...

- Mildred Pierce (14)
- National Velvet (3)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (3)
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1946...

- It's a Wonderful Life (7)
- Anna and The King of Siam (5)
- The Harvey Girls (5)
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1947...

- The Paradine Case (6)
- Forever Amber (6)
- Good News (1947) (2)
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1948...

- Easter Parade (5)
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (3)
- Romance on the High Seas (3)
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1949...

- Samson and Delilah (4)
- A Letter to Three Wives (4)
- Pinky (3)
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Popular Actors in the 1940s Click to see which films they turned down:
- Olivia De Havilland - Joan Crawford - Bette Davis - Katharine Hepburn - Cary Grant - Irene Dunne - Lana Turner - Ingrid Bergman - Judy Garland - Barbara Stanwyck	- Ann Sheridan - Greta Garbo - Ginger Rogers - Susan Hayward - Teresa Wright - Greer Garson - Linda Darnell - Alice Faye - Joan Fontaine - George Raft