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Rejected Roles of 1959
Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of 1959. 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 1959 Trivia:
Maureen Stapleton in The Fugitive Kind?
She was not permitted to recreat her stage role, Lady Torrance, in this loose adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play "Orpheus Descending." Instead, she was cast as Vee Talbot, a supporting role. She accepted it as a favor to Williams.

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