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Today in J/N History

1938 Walter Pidgeon is offered the lead opposite Jeanette in "Broadway Serenade" but turns it down. (We don't know the reason why but perhaps he wasn't impressed with the on-set histrionics going on between her and Nelson during the filming of "Girl of the Golden West.") Lew Ayres replaces Pidgeon, simultaneously filming "Broadway Serenade" and "Ice Follies of 1939".