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List of actors who had one significant film role and then bowed out for good

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Mojo looks at actors who had one significant film role and then bowed out from the silver screen for good.

Alicia Rhett was cast as India Wilkes , Ashley 's sister in Gone With the Wind.

Thelonious Bernard and Diane Lane played the titular French boy in The Boy Soldier .

Olga Mironova played a Soviet partisan nurse in Come and See .

The Sound of Music's eldest Von Trapp child, Liesl , was 16 , going on 17 in The Sound Of Music.

Carrie Hen hadn't acted a day in her life when agents visited her school looking for a young unknown to play Newt in Aliens .

Charmian Carr was modeling while attending college, despite having no experience acting or singing.

Peter Ostrom walked away from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory after winning over audiences.

Renee Jean Falconetti was a stage actress when Carl Theodore Dreyer approached her about playing the lead in 1928 's The Passion of Joan of Arc .

Her performance is still viewed as one of the most emotionally raw and agonizing in cinematic history.

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38

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semi-formal

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English

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