The Greatest Cast Never Assembled!

If Cecil B. DeMille Had Directed The Lord of the Rings

For those of you who may know the names and faces of these actors and actresses from the 1930s and 1940s . . . what if Lord of the Rings had been published sometime in the 1930s or so, and Paramount Pictures gave the project to Cecil B. DeMille to direct? Well, here's my dream cast....

Starring:

Henry Wilcoxin as Aragorn

C. Aubrey Smith as Gandalf

Peter Lorre as Gollum/Smeagol

Charles Laughton as Bilbo

Robert Preston as Frodo

Claudette Colbert as Arwen

Loretta Young as Galadriel

Errol Flynn as Legolas

Victor McLaglen as Gimli

Thomas Mitchell as Sam Gamgee

Muscha Auer as Pippin

Leo Carillo as Merry

Ian Hunter as Elrond

H. B. Warner as Denethor

Anthony Quinn as Boromir

Caeser Romero as Faramir

Basil Rathbone as Saruman

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr as Eomer

Carole Landis as Eowyn

Joseph Schildkraut as Grim Wormtongue

Victor Mature as Celeborn

John Carradine as King Theoden

Alan Hale, Sr as Gamli

Ernest Thesiger as Treebeard

Dwight Frye as Chief Orc of the White Hand

Sheldon Leonard as Barliman Butterbur

Rondo Hatton as the Cave Troll

J. Carroll Nash as Chief of the Mordor Orcs

Boris Karloff as the Lord of the Nazgul

Lon Chaney, Jr as the King of the Dead

Bela Lugosi as the Mouth of Sauron

and

Jerry Mathers 

as

The Beaver

(Just kidding)