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Rejected Roles of 1949
Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of 1949. 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 1949 Trivia:
Barbara Stanwyck in The Fountainhead?
Urged Jack Warner to buy this popular novel to film with herself and Humphrey Bogart in the leads. Director King Vidor preferred Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper, remarked that Stanwyck wasn't "sexy enough."

See who turned down these 1949 films:
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