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Old 08-02-2015, 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by 2BNTV View Post
Casablanca was offered to Gary Cooper but he thought the lead character was too shady and refused the part. It was then offered to George Raft. George was famous in Hollywood for not being decisive about the roles he wanted to play, and didn't take it.

Humphrey Bogart accepted and the rest is history.
Wow, GC, GR and HB....to me that would have made for three very different movies. I can't imagine Cooper in the role at all, if would have just been a different film. Raft could have pulled it off easily...but again it would have been different. He wouldn't have had the same power that Bogart brought to it.