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1940s Movie Trivia: Rejected Roles
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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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Popular Actors in the 1940s
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- Olivia De Havilland
- Joan Crawford
- Katharine Hepburn
- Bette Davis
- Lana Turner
- Cary Grant
- Irene Dunne
- Ann Sheridan
- Ingrid Bergman
- Judy Garland
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Susan Hayward
- Teresa Wright
- Greta Garbo
- Ginger Rogers
- Greer Garson
- Linda Darnell
- Alice Faye
- Joan Fontaine
- George Raft

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