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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)
- Kings Row (3)
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1943...

- Old Acquaintance (10)
- Claudia (7)
- Shadow of a Doubt (3)
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1944...

- Laura (5)
- Double Indemnity (4)
- Madame Curie (3)
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1945...

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

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

- The Paradine Case (6)
- Forever Amber (6)
- Life with Father (2)
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1948...

- Easter Parade (5)
- Romance on the High Seas (3)
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (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 - Katharine Hepburn - Bette Davis - Lana Turner - Cary Grant - Irene Dunne - Ingrid Bergman - Judy Garland - Barbara Stanwyck	- Ann Sheridan - Teresa Wright - Greta Garbo - Ginger Rogers - Susan Hayward - Greer Garson - Linda Darnell - Alice Faye - Joan Fontaine - George Raft