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Paul Douglas turned down the role of Harry Brock. He played it on Broadway in *Born Yesterday* - Douglas died suddenly in the late '50's and his first film was the great *A Letter To Three Wives* .

Broderick Crawford played the role of Harry in the film and he was an Oscar winner for *All the King's Men* . Judy Holiday won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in *Born Yesterday*

 

Edited by: lavenderblue19 on Jan 26, 2014 8:39 AM

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You made it sound as if he turned down the role because he was getting too famous and his ego got in the way. Paul Douglas turned the role down because the role had been CUT substantially. It wasn't so much that he was becoming a big star, it was what they did to the part that made hin pass.

 

I don't normally do this type of gossipy question, but here goes anyway.

 

This actor was almost 30 years older than this 16 year old actress. They had an affair and he wanted to marry her if their age difference wasn't quite so large. Who were the 2??

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It sure was John Ireland and Tuesday Weld. Weld's mother was NOT happy as you can imagine. Ireland said that their age difference and Tuesday's mother is what prevented him from marrying her. At that time who would have guessed 16 year old Tuesday, as Thalia on Dobie Gillis and John Ireland were having an affair. Dirty old man. Thanks Miles, you're up ;)

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I wonder how happy Maureen O'Sullivan was when her daughter Mia Farrow, then 21, married Frank Sinatra, then about 51. Of course, there's quite a difference between 16 and 21.

Now, Tuesday Weld was in a movie where her character took up with a man, although he wasn't that much older, and her mother disapproved. She ends up killing a man and getting her boyfriend to help cover it up. Then she kills her mother and asks the boyfriend to dispose of the body. Can you name the movie? Who played the boyfriend and who played the mother?

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