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Rejected Roles of 1953

Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of 1953. 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 1953 Trivia:

Betty Grable in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?
20th Century Fox bought the rights to the Broadway musical hit especially for Grable but when her movies began to lose money, the executives decided instead to replace her with the fast-rising Monroe.

See who turned down these 1953 films:

- Act of Love (1)
- The Actress (2)
- All The Brothers Were Valiant (1)
- Battle Circus (1)
- The Big Heat (1)
- Blowing Wild (1)
- Down Among The Sheltering Palms (1)
- Dream Wife (1)
- From Here to Eternity (6)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (3)
- Give a Girl a Break (3)
- The High and The Mighty (1)
- Hobson's Choice (1)
- House of Wax (1953) (1)
- I Confess (8)
- Julius Caesar (2)
- Kiss Me Kate (3)
- Mogambo (2)
- The Moon Is Blue (2)
- The Robe (1)
- Roman Holiday (6)
- Second Chance (1)
- Shane (2)
- Stalag 17 (2)
- Torch Song (2)
- Trouble in Store (1)
- The War of the Worlds (1953) (1)
- Young Bess (1)

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