Truman Capote actually wanted Marilyn IIRC.
I think Audrey Hepburn was the perfect Holly Golightly for that particular film, but Monroe and MacLaine would have been perfect for an adaptation that was closer to the novella.
When I listen to Audrey's line readings as Holly, which are exquisite and funny and poignant, I can definitely imagine Marilyn's readings as well (shades of Lorelei Lee to a degree).
This is why I need to stop making posts right before going to bed. That's definitely what I was thinking when I typed my post out last night, and definitely not what I said. Thank you, this is more accurate to my thoughts about actresses playing Holly Golightly.
I always thought that too. I think they could have put any two of the big "Young Hollywood" actors of that timeframe into those roles and the movie still woulda been a big hit as long as the actors had some chemistry together. I like both actors, but I think any of the young stars of that time would have been equally good in those roles.
When I had first heard this years ago I was
because I don't think Back to the Future woulda been as huge a hit as it was (and I don't think there would have ever been a BTTF 2 or 3) with Eric Stoltz in that role. He seemed to have like this underlying dark presence to me (not 'evil' dark, just ... sadness and darkness and depression), that didn't match the lightness that Marty McFly had. It would have been a totally different movie.
Wait what??? I never knew this. Wow. Did they have to get someone else since Michael Keaton was primarily a 'movie' star and they needed someone who was a 'TV' star and could commit to the filming schedule of a television show? Although I do love Michael Keaton, I'm not sure I see him in this role as it fully played out. Matthew Fox was perfect for that role.
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And I have read that Jack Warner wanted James Cagney to play Alfred Doolittle instead of the creator of the Broadway role, Stanley Holloway. It's my understanding that both Grant and Cagney turned down the respective roles and told Warner in no uncertain terms that Harrison and Holloway should be cast.I just learned over the weekend while watching My Fair Lady on TCM that Cary Grant was originally offered the role of Henry Higgins and refused it, saying no one else could do that role except for Rex Harrison. Rightly so--Rex is the best!
Yes, and Audrey unfairly had to pay for that casting. She took a lot of flack for Julie getting snubbed which was of course not her fault. And then Audrey was snubbed at the oscars by not even being nominated.
Not that I know of. Julie hadn't made any films at that point and Audrey Hepburn was a huge box office draw and with a projected huge budget to make MFL he wanted someone well known in movie theaters. The worst that I have read is that Jack Warner didn't think that Julie was "photogenic enough".hmm ... is there some juicy drama around this I never knew about?
Did that happen to be "The Kingfisher" with Claudette Colbert?
No, it was a Shaw play. Diana Rigg was in it too. About 12 people in the cast and I knew every one of them from PBS. I think it was "Heartbreak House". It was also on broadway, but I saw it in London.
Actually, if anything, DiCaprio's youthfulness somewhat enhanced the contrast between him and Rose's fiance and kind of underscored the odds Jack was up against.Agreed. Out of that list, the only one other than Leo that I could have seen in the role was O'Donnell, but I think they made the right choices for the two leads. And Billy Zane was very effective as the bad guy.
Al Pacino was already a major star, but Han Solo was Harrison Ford's breakout role. I wonder what would have happened to Ford if Pacino had said yes. Maybe George Lucas, who had already used Ford, would have given him a different part in a sequel to Star Wars, but then again, maybe Ford would have kept on with carpentry.
I think Jared Leto would have been amazing in it also. But he refused to audition.
I think the only really crappy part of about the dubbing controversy was that Audrey took the role with the idea that she'd be singing all of the songs "with help" for the high notes, and then as she was filming scenes, they led her to believe that was what was going to happen as she already filmed some musical numbers lip synching to her own sung tracks (the fact they had her sing the score also made her believe they intended to use it in the actual film), and she only found out they were going to replace almost all of her singing with Marni Nixon in a roundabout way during filming was what got her. She actually stormed off set when she found out, but then came back the next day and apologized for her behavior and continued shooting without further problems. I think had she just been told from the beginning they were going to dub her nearly completely, she would have been disappointed but understood. The fact they tried to trick her and not tell her was what got her. It really is disrespectful.
And stopped crashing planes?
I see Pacino as so New York that I cannot imagine him as a space cowboy. I guess the movie executives didn't want him to play Michael Corleone in "The Godfather" because of his short stature and were opting for Robert Redford, Ryan O'Neal, Jack Nicholson and even "Sonny" (James Caan) read for Michael. But Coppola wanted him and stuck to his guns.