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Rejected Roles of 1945

Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of 1945. 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 1945 Trivia:

Jose Ferrer in The Lost Weekend?
Director Billy Wilder's first choice to play Don Birnam, a chronic alcoholic, was Jose Ferrer, but Paramount insisted that only a matinee idol in the lead could sell the film.

See who turned down these 1945 films:

- Blithe Spirit (2)
- Caesar and Cleopatra (1)
- The Corn Is Green (1)
- The Enchanted Forest (1)
- The Lost Weekend (2)
- Mildred Pierce (14)
- Murder, He Says (1)
- National Velvet (3)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1)
- Roughly Speaking (1)
- Spellbound (2)
- The Spiral Staircase (2)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (3)
- The Valley of Decision (1)
- The Wicked Lady (1)
- Yolanda and The Thief (1)

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