Casting Might-Have-Beens: A Film by Film Directory of Actors Considered for Roles Given to OthersMcFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 20 sty 2005 - 350 Some acting careers are made by one great role and some fall into obscurity when one is declined. Would Al Pacino be the star he is today if Robert Redford had accepted the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather? Imagine Tom Hanks rejecting Uma Thurman, saying that she acted like someone in a high school play when she auditioned to play opposite him in The Bonfire of the Vanities. Picture Danny Thomas as The Godfather, or Marilyn Monroe as Cleopatra. This reference work lists hundreds of such stories: actors who didn't get cast or who turned down certain parts. Each entry, organized alphabetically by film title, gives the character and actor cast, a list of other actors considered for that role, and the details of the casting decision. Information is drawn from extensive research and interviews. From About Last Night (which John Belushi turned down at his brother's urging) to Zulu (in which Michael Caine was not cast because he didn't look "Cockney" enough), this book lets you imagine how different your favorite films could have been. |
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... MGM offered him $ 1 million . The only problem was that he was under contract at Universal Studios and they re- fused to loan him out . Hudson was very upset , and when he renegotiated his contract with Uni- versal he included a clause ...
... MGM pro- ducer Sam Katz . He thought that Powell would be good for a role in MGM's upcoming film , Broadway Melody of 1936. He brought her to MGM . The other executives were not impressed . They told Katz that she was not feminine ...
... MGM was asking too much money for Kelly , and Cohn was trying to work it out . Cohn even offered to trade Rita Hay- worth to MGM in exchange for Kelly , but Louis B. Mayer wasn't interested in the actress . Mayer eventually told Cohn to ...
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