- George Reeves, Always A Bride, 1940. A dozen years before zooming around Metropiolis as Superman, Reeves subbed Lundigan in the rom-com trifle from a play called Applesauce and sets from the same director Noel M Smith’s previous Reeves film, Father is a Prince.
- Dan Dailey, Panama Hattie, 1941. Once in the can, the Cole Porter required numerous re-takes. During which time both Lundigan and the seven years older Robert Young were suggested as substitutes for the 17th and final movie billing of… Dan Dailey Jr!
- Richard Quine, Salute to the Marines, 1942. Van Johnson, Marjorie Maine and Lewis Stone were first announced by MGM as Wallace Beery’s co-stars for the flag-waving patriotism. Lundigan took over Rufus when Quine joined the real WWII. In 1948, Quine later turned director – The Solid Gold Cadillac, Bell Book and Candle, The World of Suzie Wong, Paris When It Sizzles, How To Murder Your Wife and not fprgetting … Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You In The Closet and I’m Feeling So Sad/
- Stephen McNally, No Way Out, 1949. Change of Dr Wahrton, chief medical resident at County Hospital, employing Sidney Poitier – in his feature debut as an ERTdoctor barely tolerated by his white colleagues in Jospeh L Mankiewicz’s ground-breaking drama about racial hatrted. Albeit it, melodrama.
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