- Olivia De Havilland, Gone With The Wind, 1938.
- Ruth Hussey, Tennessee Johnson, 1941. Day and Martha Scott were on several lists for Eliza McCardle, who married the subject of this biopic – Van Heflin as Andrew Johnson, the 17th US President after the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Donna Reed, It’s A Wonderful Life, 1946.
- Agnes Moorehead, The Blue Veil, 1950. Producer Jerry Wald felt he could convince Garbo to come back. Hah! He couldn’t even persuade Scott to drop Broadway for RKO’s re-tread of Le voile bleu, 1941.
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