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Originally Posted by Skip Towne
John Wayne was offered the role of Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke. He turned it down for fear it would typecast him. Pretty funny.
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He came up in the 30s when a western actor was one of the lower rungs on the ladder and once someone got labeled a western actor, that's about all they could get in roles. He really tried to get out of westerns completely. If it hadn't been for his exes and alimony, him might have been able to.