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Rejected Roles of 1943
Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of 1943. 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 1943 Trivia:
Lon Chaney Jr. in Phantom of the Opera (1943)?
Chaney desperately wanted to play his actor-father's (Lon Chaney Sr.) most famous role in Universal's elaborate remake. the studio humoured him, even allowing him to pose on the Opera House set in his Frankenstein Monster makeup for photos, but he was never seriously considered.

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