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Following her rejection for Scudda Hoo!

Scudda Hay !, Peters was selected to replace Linda Darnell as the female lead in Captain from Castile ( 1947 ) opposite Tyrone Power, when Darnell was reassigned to save the production of Forever Amber.

Peters, although she had not made her screen debut by this time, was highly publicized and received a star treatment while filming took place.

Captain from Castile was a hit, and Leonard Maltin wrote that afterwards Peters spent the new decade playing " sexy spitfires, often in period dramas and Westerns.

" She was offered a similar role in the western Yellow Sky ( 1948 ), but she refused the part, explaining it was " too sexy ".

As a result, the studio, frustrated by her stubbornness, put her on her first suspension.