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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.

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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...

- The Maltese Falcon (5)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (4)
- Ladies in Retirement (3)
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1942...

- Casablanca (8)
- Saboteur (6)
- Kings Row (3)
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1943...

- Claudia (7)
- Old Acquaintance (6)
- 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)
- The Spiral Staircase (2)
- Spellbound (2)
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1946...

- It's a Wonderful Life (6)
- The Harvey Girls (5)
- Anna and The King of Siam (5)
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1947...

- The Paradine Case (6)
- Forever Amber (5)
- Possessed (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)
- The Heiress (2)
- All the King's Men (2)
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Popular Actors in the 1940s Click to see which films they turned down:
- Joan Crawford - Bette Davis - Katharine Hepburn - Olivia De Havilland - Ann Sheridan - Lana Turner - Cary Grant - Ingrid Bergman - Irene Dunne - Judy Garland	- Greta Garbo - Susan Hayward - Barbara Stanwyck - Ginger Rogers - Linda Darnell - Teresa Wright - Angela Lansbury - Joan Fontaine - George Raft - Carole Lombard