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Rejected Roles of 1940

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

Clark Gable in The Philadelphia Story?
Katharine Hepburn wanted Gable to star as C. K. Dexter Haven, but he was busy. Gable would never had agreed anyway since he had got director George Cukor fired from Gone With the Wind.

See who turned down these 1940 films:

- Abe Lincoln in Illinois (3)
- All This, and Heaven Too (1)
- All This and Heaven Too (1)
- Chad Hanna (1)
- Down Argentine Way (3)
- Foreign Correspondent (2)
- The Grapes of Wrath (1)
- His Girl Friday (5)
- I Take This Woman (1)
- Johnny Apollo (1)
- The Letter (2)
- The Mark of Zorro (2)
- New Moon (1)
- The Philadelphia Story (2)
- Pride and Prejudice (1940) (1)
- Rebecca (23)
- Saturday's Children (2)
- Susan and God (1)
- 'Til We Meet Again (1)
- Waterloo Bridge (1)

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