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In 1944 Hal Wallis offered a reported $150,000 for the film rights. Mervyn Le Roy wanted to make an all black version.[{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|url=https://archive.org/details/variety156-1944-11/page/n199/mode/1up?|title=Inside stuff legit|date=22 November 1944|page=40}}] In March 1945 the possibility was floated of there being versions with a white cast and a black cast.[{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|title=Negro, white version of Lucasta film?|url=https://archive.org/details/variety157-1945-03/page/n113/mode/1up?|date=21 March 1945|page=2}}>/ref>] |
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In 1944 Hal Wallis offered a reported $150,000 for the film rights. Mervyn Le Roy wanted to make an all black version.[{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|url=https://archive.org/details/variety156-1944-11/page/n199/mode/1up?|title=Inside stuff legit|date=22 November 1944|page=40}}] In March 1945 the possibility was floated of there being versions with a white cast and a black cast.[{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|title=Negro, white version of Lucasta film?|url=https://archive.org/details/variety157-1945-03/page/n113/mode/1up?|date=21 March 1945|page=2}}></ref>] |
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Irving Rapper wanted [[Susan Hayward]] in the lead but says Paulette Goddard "produced a letter promising her the part and it was too late for anyone to get out from under; we'd all signed to do it."[{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/celluloidmusehol00high/page/232] 232|year=1971|publisher=Regnery|title=The celluloid muse; Hollywood directors speak|url=https://archive.org/details/celluloidmusehol00high|url-access=registration|last1= Higham|first1=Charles|last2=Greenberg|first2= Joel}}] |
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Irving Rapper wanted [[Susan Hayward]] in the lead but says Paulette Goddard "produced a letter promising her the part and it was too late for anyone to get out from under; we'd all signed to do it."[{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/celluloidmusehol00high/page/232] 232|year=1971|publisher=Regnery|title=The celluloid muse; Hollywood directors speak|url=https://archive.org/details/celluloidmusehol00high|url-access=registration|last1= Higham|first1=Charles|last2=Greenberg|first2= Joel}}] |
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