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Rejected Roles of 1939

Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of 1939. 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 1939 Trivia:

Victor Mature in Gone with The Wind?
Victor Mature auditioned for the roles of Brent and Stuart Tarleton at a time when it appeared likely that the twins would be played by a single actor, using trick photography. Eventually this was deemed impractical and the producers sought a pair of actors who could believably play brothers.

See who turned down these 1939 films:

- Dark Victory (3)
- Golden Boy (4)
- Gone with the Wind (51)
- Gunga Din (1)
- Idiot's Delight (2)
- Midnight (1)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1)
- Ninotchka (2)
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1)
- The Rains Came (1)
- The Roaring Twenties (3)
- The Rules of the Game (1)
- Stagecoach (2)
- Thunder Afloat (1)
- The Wizard of Oz (11)
- Wuthering Heights (1939) (4)

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