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Rejected Roles of 1956
Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of 1956. 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 1956 Trivia:
Vivien Leigh in Friendly Persuasion?
Leigh was perhaps the most untypical actress considered for the role of Quaker minister, wife and mother Eliza Birdwell, but she was in the running among many other lead actresses of the time.

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