Shelly Hack was director Nicholas Meyer's first choice. They were dating at the time. She claimed she didn't want to take the lead in a film directed by her boyfriend.
Actor who got the part: Mary Steenburgen
Buddy Hackett was invited to appear in the film, but declined due to failing health. He died before the film premiered.
Buddy Hackett wanted to play the role of the agent and it was he who brought the screenplay (an early version of it) to the attention of executive producer Charles Evans.
Actor who got the part: Sydney Pollack
Hackman was considered for an early role in the film.
Gene Hackman was approached by Spielberg to play the role of Roy Neary.
Actor who got the part: Richard Dreyfuss
Gene Hackman turned down the role several times before finally accepting...
Actor who got the part: Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman was turned down for the role of Sam Gerard.
Actor who got the part: Tommy Lee Jones
Gene Hackman was considered for the role.
Actor who got the part: Jack Nicholson
One of Tarantino's first choices to play Max Cherry.
Actor who got the part: Robert Forster
Hackman was considered to star in Jaws.
Was considered for Jim Garrison.
Actor who got the part: Kevin Costner
Gene Hackman turned down the lead role.
Actor who got the part: James Caan
Gene Hackman reportedly turned down the part of Howard Beale.
Actor who got the part: Peter Finch
Hackman was considered for the role of McMurphy.
Actor who got the part: Jack Nicholson
Gene Hackman was actually given the role of Dr. Berger but later dropped out.
Actor who got the part: Judd Hirsch
Hackman was considered for the role of FDR that eventually went to Jon Voight.
Actor who got the part: Jon Voight
Gene Hackman was considered to replace Marlon Brando in the role of William Randolph Hearst. The film was eventually scaled down to a TV movie.
Actor who got the part: James Cromwell
Hackman was considered for the role of Rocky Balboa.
Actor who got the part: Sylvester Stallone
The first choice to play Hannibal Lecter.
Actor who got the part: Anthony Hopkins
Diana Ross and Gene Hackman were to have starred in TOUGH CUSTOMERS in the '70's but the project never got off the ground. Ross went on to make THE WIZ.
Actor who got the part: Project Never Got Made
Gene Hackman was considered for the role of Deacon.
Actor who got the part: Dennis Hopper
Sid Haig was originally asked to play Marsellus Wallace, but declined.
Actor who got the part: Ving Rhames
According to an interview to promote his reality show, Corey Haim said he had to choose between an ensemble piece (Stand By Me) and a starring role (Lucas). He chose Lucas and River Phoenix got the part.
Actor who got the part: River Phoenix
Anthony Michael Hall turned down a part for fear of being typecast.
Originally cast as Private Joker, but was replaced by Matthew Modine.
Auditioned for the role of Ponyboy.
Actor who got the part: C. Thomas Howell
Turned down a role for fear of being typecast.
Halliwell (better known as Ginger Spice) was said to be considered to play the third angel.
Actor who got the part: Lucy Liu
Hamill was considered for the lead role after playing Mozart on Broadway.
Actor who got the part: Tom Hulce
Mark Hamill was considered to play the Riddler.
For the movie version of Harold Robbins' novel, Hamilton turned down the role of international playboy "Dax Xenos."
Actor who got the part: Bekim Fehmiu
George Hamilton was to play the lead in an early version of the screenplay when producer Bob Kaufman was attached.
Actor who got the part: Dustin Hoffman
Linda Hamilton auditioned for the role of Joanne Galloway.
Actor who got the part: Demi Moore
Linda Hamilton was rumoured to play the part of Molly Brown, as James Cameron was dating her at the time.
Actor who got the part: Kathy Bates
The pretty blonde actress was offered to Hitchcock as a possibility to play the troubled thief who assumes various disguises.
Actor who got the part: 'Tippi' Hedren
Hanks auditioned for the lead role of Drew.
Actor who got the part: Orlando Bloom
Auditioned for the role of Anakin Skywalker.
Actor who got the part: Hayden Christensen
Considered to play Batman.
Hanks was considered for the role of Inman.
Actor who got the part: Jude Law
Hanks was offered the role of Ray Kinsella but turned it down.
Was Considered For The Role Of Sam Wheat.
Actor who got the part: Patrick Swayze
Tom Hanks was considered for the lead role.
Actor who got the part: Bill Murray
Tom Hanks was considered for the role of Peter Pan.
Actor who got the part: Robin Williams
Tom Hanks was the reportedly the original choice for the role of Jack.
Actor who got the part: Robin Williams
Hanks was approached to play the lead role in Jerry Maguire.
Actor who got the part: Tom Cruise
Hanks was among the stars considered to play the leading role of the pioneering researcher in human sexuality.
Actor who got the part: Liam Neeson
Hanks was reportedly considered to play Richard Nixon.
Actor who got the part: Anthony Hopkins
Tom Hanks was apporached orginally about playing CIA agent Jack Ryan in patriot games.
Actor who got the part: Harrison Ford
Hanks was considered for the role of publisher Flynt.
Actor who got the part: Woody Harrelson
According to Entertainment Weekly, Hanks was one of the actors who were considered for the lead role, which ultimately went to Steve Guttenberg.
Actor who got the part: Steve Guttenberg
Hanks was considered for the role of Jack Stanton.
Actor who got the part: John Travolta
Tom Hanks auditioned for the role of Joel.
Actor who got the part: Tom Cruise
Tom Hanks turned down the role of Andy Dufresne due to scheduling conflicts with "Forrest Gump."
Actor who got the part: Tim Robbins
Steve Martin admits that he considered Tom Hanks for the role of Ray Porter.
Actor who got the part: Steve Martin
Tom Hanks was reportedly offered the lead role, but declined.
Many reports say Tom Hanks was to play the role of Zefram Chochrane, but was unable because he had prior commitments with "That Thing You Do."
Actor who got the part: James Cromwell
One of the stars considered after Brad Pitt dropped out of the film.
Actor who got the part: Russell Crowe
Hanks reportedly declined the role because he had chosen to do Saving Private Ryan.
Actor who got the part: Nick Nolte
Tom Hanks was originally offered the role of Harry but turned it down because it was too "lightweight."
Actor who got the part: Billy Crystal
Hannah was offered the lead role of Vivian.
Actor who got the part: Julia Roberts
According to wikipedia, Daryl Hannah was considered to play Mia.
Hannah was originally denied the role of Annelle, but she convinced the director to give her the part.
Actor who got the part: Daryl Hannah
Alyson Hannigan was originally offered the part of Heather but declined. She aksed to play Michelle instead.
Melora Hardin (from TV's The Office) was cast as Jennifer Parker, but was replaced when Eric Stoltz was fired and replaced with Michael J. Fox. She was considered to be too tall to be Marty McFly's girlfriend.
Actor who got the part: Claudia Wells
Ann Harding was tested to play the role of Orry Baxter for the initial 1941 production. It was made finally in 1946 with Jane Wyman.
Actor who got the part: Jane Wyman
The French actress and former Miss France auditioned for the role of Sophie Neveu.
Actor who got the part: Audrey Tatou
Stan Laurel's comedy partner was considered for the role of Mr. Micawber.
Actor who got the part: W.C. Fields
Mariska was origianlly chosen to play the part of Dulcea but later left the project during production.
Actor who got the part: Gabrielle Fitzpatrick
David Skal explanis in a documentary how the part of Venus was givien to Jean Harlow but then she pulled out from the film because the studios didn't think one of there a big star should be in a horror movie.
Actor who got the part: Leila Hyams
Jean Harlow was considered to play Scarlett O'Hara.
Actor who got the part: Vivien Leigh
Jean Harlow refused the lead part of Anne Darrow.
Actor who got the part: Fay Wray
Harlow died with the film about 90% completed, and her remaining scenes were shot with body double Mary Dees and voice double Paula Winslowe. MGM considered scrapping Harlow's footage and re-casting with Jean Arthur or Virginia Bruce, but the reaction at a preview and fan mail changed their minds.
Actor who got the part: Mary Dees
Producer Hal Roach wanted Harlow to play "Marion Kirby," the sophisticated, sexy socialite who becomes a ghost. Harlow was unavailable at the time of production.
Actor who got the part: Constance Bennett
Woody Harrelson was considered for the role of Miguel Bain.
Actor who got the part: Antonio Banderas
Seriously considered for the lead role of Jake Brigance (Matt McConaughey).
Barbara Harris reportedly had the role, but Teri Garr's agent got her the part based on her performance in Young Frankenstein.
Actor who got the part: Teri Garr
Was considered seriously for the role of the self-destructive, hugely talented "Neely O'Hara" character, based on Judy Garland.
Actor who got the part: Patty Duke
Danielle Harris lost her role to J.C. Brandy after reportedly asking for too much money.
Actor who got the part: J.C. Brandy
The original draft of the screenplay had an attached page of cast ideas, which suggested that Ed Harris play newsroom boss Ed Harken.
Actor who got the part: Fred Willard
Ed Harris was considered for the role of Carl Hanratty when Gore Verbinski was attached to direct.
Actor who got the part: Tom Hanks
Ed Harris was originally going to play Harry (Jack's buddy).
Actor who got the part: Jeff Daniels
Ed Harris was considered to play Dr. Otto Octavius.
Actor who got the part: Alfred Molina
Harris was originally intended for the role of Tom Hardy.
Actor who got the part: Bruce Willis
Harris was considered for the role of Eddie Valiant.
Actor who got the part: Bob Hoskins
Neil Patrick Harris was reportedly attached to play Mark at one point.
Actor who got the part: Anthony Rapp
Neil Patrick Harris reportedly tried out for Nightcrawler.
Actor who got the part: Alan Cumming
Offered the great "Harry Palmer" spy role, he instead opted to do an uninspired Doris Day movie -- a decision he regretted.
Actor who got the part: Michael Caine
Originally cast as Dr. Marc Chabot, but left the movie over creative differences.
Actor who got the part: Yves Montand
Turned down the role in the musicalized version of Dickens' classic holiday story.
Actor who got the part: Albert Finney
For his final film, the legendary Sir Charles Chaplin offered the role of the millionaire diplomat first to Harrison, who declined.
Actor who got the part: Marlon Brando
Had accepted the role in the musical version of Dickens' classic story but had to withdraw because he was involved with a difficult stage production.
Actor who got the part: Albert Finney
A top choice for the role of the conceited, womanizing pianist.
Actor who got the part: Peter Sellers
Deborah Harry was considered to play Pris.
Actor who got the part: Daryl Hannah
Melissa reportedly auditiond for a role in Eyes Wide Shut.
Melissa Joan Hart tried out for the part of Lolita.
Actor who got the part: Dominique Swain
Auditioned for the role of Sydney Prescott in "Scream."
Actor who got the part: Neve Campbell
Mellissa Joan Hart auditioned for the role of Jamie.
Actor who got the part: Daniell Harris
Josh Hartnett was considered to play Batman (as well as Superman in the potential Batman vs. Superman film).
According to Variety, Hartnett was considered for a role.
Josh Hartnett was considered to play Inman.
Actor who got the part: Jude Law
Josh Hartnett was reportedly considred for the role of Lestat.
Actor who got the part: Stuart Townsend
Hartnett was considered for the role of Superman.
Actor who got the part: Brandon Routh
Turned down the title role in the classic version of the film about a handsome, womanizing louse.
Actor who got the part: Michael Caine
Considered for the role of Marc Antony.
Actor who got the part: Richard Burton
The pregnancy of Audrey Hepburn contributed to the cancellation of this Alfred Hitchcock project.
Actor who got the part: Film Was Never Made
Considered as a candidate to play Fagin in the Carol Reed-directed musical,.
Actor who got the part: Ron Moody
One of master director Michael Powell's top early choices to play the title role in his shocking thriller about voyeurism and murder.
Actor who got the part: Carl Boehm
When Lillian Harvey walked out on the film, a movie milestone took place. She was replaced by Ginger Rogers, who danced for the first time with Fred Astaire!
Actor who got the part: Ginger Rogers
Teri Hatcher was considered for the role of Jennifer Jolie.
Actor who got the part: Parker Posey
WIthdrew from the key role of an unlucky one-night-stand in director Jud Apatow's first movie comedy since "40 Year Old Virgin."
Actor who got the part: Katharine Heigl
Anne Hathaway was reportedly a condidate to play Christine.
Actor who got the part: Emmy Rossum
According to the DVD commentary by directore Eli Roth he strongly considered casting Rutger Hauer as the Dutch Businessman.
Actor who got the part: Jan Vlasak
Anne Rice wanted Hauer to play Lestat but was overuled by the producers. She threatened to take her name off the project right up until she saw the final cut because she believed Cruise couldn't do the role justice.
Actor who got the part: Tom Cruise
Rutger Hauer was considered for the role of Robocop.
Actor who got the part: Peter Weller
Real life porn star Annette Haven was originally cast as Holly in Brian De Palma's mystery thriller.
Actor who got the part: Melanie Griffith
Although this musical had been earmarked for her, June Haver refused to be any part of it claiming the storyline was immoral.
Actor who got the part: Mitzi Gaynor
Warner had June Haver in mind for this film, but as Day was becoming a box office star she was used instead.
Actor who got the part: Doris Day
Olivia De Havilland wanted too much money to star in the thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Actor who got the part: Grace Kelly
Alfred Hitchcock wanted De Havilland to play the married woman still in love with a man from her past, who has become a priest. The role became minimized, so a star of De Havilland's stature was not required.
Actor who got the part: Anne Baxter
Was pursued for the role of the dangerous -- or is she? -- "Brigid O'Shaughnessey."
Actor who got the part: Mary Astor
Director Alfred Hitchcock had the lovely star in mind to play the young smalltown girl who begins to suspect that her dashing uncle is a murderer.
Actor who got the part: Teresa Wright
Turned down the role of Blanche duBois.
Actor who got the part: Vivien Leigh
Olivia de Havilland turned down the role of Lisollette Mueller.
Actor who got the part: Jennifer Jones
Ethan Hawke was considered for the role of Will Graham.
Actor who got the part: Edward Norton
The British star was considered for the leading role.
Actor who got the part: Andrew Keir
One of the handful of directors considered by the studio and producer Sam Spiegel.
Actor who got the part: David Lean
Hawks quit as director of this production after a disagreement with the producer Sam Goldwyn. William Wyler was brought in to complete the film.
Actor who got the part: William Wyler
The great Hawks was discharged from the adventure classic when his film "Bringing Up Baby," now considered a masterpiece, bombed at the box-office.
Actor who got the part: George Stevens
After the success of "The First Wives Club," Midler, Keaton and Hawn were going to make another film together. The premise was about women who sell beauty products in the jungle. The film never got made.
Actor who got the part: Project Nver Got Made
The Rose Ratliff/Rose Shelton part was written for Goldie Hawn.
Actor who got the part: Lily Tomlin
When the film version was originally conceived in the '70s, Goldie was set to play Roxie.
Goldie Hawn turned down the role of Faye Greener.
Actor who got the part: Karen Black
Goldie Hawn was originally cast as Kate.
Actor who got the part: Farrah Fawcett
Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock considered Hawn to play the kooky fake spiritualist in what was to be his final motion picture.
Actor who got the part: Barbara Harris
According to an article run by Time magazine in 1975, the novel by Erica Jong was optioned by producer Julia Phillips as a project for either Brenda Vaccaro, Goldie Hawn or Barbra Streisand, but was never made.
Actor who got the part: Never Made
Goldie Hawn was turned down for the role of Frances Farmer.
Actor who got the part: Jessica Lange
Had been set to play the Baker's Wife in a Rob Reiner-directed film version of the Stephen Sondheim hit musical.
Actor who got the part: Project Abandoned
Hawn was supposed to play the boxing trainer/manager opposite Ryan O'Neal.
Actor who got the part: Barbra Streisand
Goldie Hawn turned down the part of Claire.
Actor who got the part: Kate Jackson
The director's first choice to play Eve Tessmacher.
Goldie & Meryl Streep considered doing the movie together, but decided to do "Death Becomes Her" instead.
Otto Preminger would not release her from her contract to make this film.
Actor who got the part: Sue Lyon
Nigel Hawthorne was originally cast as Sir William Gull but backed out to battle his cancer.
Actor who got the part: Ian Holm
Robert Altman's never-made screen version of the Kurt Vonnegut novel was to have featured the great Hayden as "Kilgore Trout."
Actor who got the part: Film Was Never Made
The great Hayden was considered for the key role of "The Captain."
Actor who got the part: Cyril Cusack
Hayden was the first choice to play Quint.
Actor who got the part: Robert Shaw
Originally supposed to play the knife expert Britt, but dropped out of the project.
Actor who got the part: James Coburn
The great Hayden turned down the role of "Pike Bishop."
Actor who got the part: William Holden
Julie Haydon tested for the role of Melanie Hamilton.
Actor who got the part: Olivia De Havilland
Considered for the role of "I" was the Broadway and film actress, who provided the screams in "King Kong" (1933) and who later originated the role of "Laura" in "The Glass Managerie" on Broadway.
Actor who got the part: Joan Fontaine
Hayek was considered for the role of Alicia Larde who is from El Salvador.
Actor who got the part: Jennifer Connelly
Salma Hayek was novel writer Clive Cussler's first choice to play Eva Rojas.
Actor who got the part: Penelope Cruz
Salma Hayek was considerd for the lead role but didn't get it. She opted for the film Frida instead.
Actor who got the part: Jennifer Lopez
Hayes turned down the Apple Annie role for several reasons, one being that she didn't like the script.
Actor who got the part: Bette Davis
Alfred Hitchcock had the debonair star in mind to play the devious "Captain Lesgate," hired by the ex-tennis pro to kill his unfaithful wife. Budget problems dictated the role be cast with another good, but less expensive actor.
Actor who got the part: Anthony Dawson
Louis Hayward tested for the role of the hero's hot-headed brother "George Conway" in Frank Capra's fantasy epic of Shangri-La.
Actor who got the part: John Howard
Columbia pictures wanted Susan to play the title role but at the last minute replaced her.
Actor who got the part: Paulette Goddard
In the early planning stages, Hayward was considered for the lead role of Simone.
Actor who got the part: Shirley MacLaine
Was the first choice to play Cleopatra.
Actor who got the part: Elizabeth Taylor
Hayward was considered for the female lead.
Actor who got the part: Merle Oberon
Hayward was one of several actresses 20th Century Fox considered for the title role.
Actor who got the part: Jean Simmons
As a Paramount contract player at the time, Susan Hayward was considered for the part of Lola Dietrichson.
Actor who got the part: Jean Heather
Hayward was tested for the part of Maria.
Actor who got the part: Ingrid Bergman
The fiery redhead tested for the role of "Scarlett O'Hara."
Actor who got the part: Vivien Leigh
Susan Hayward was considered to play Helen Morgan in this biopic.
Actor who got the part: Ann Blyth
Under contract to Paramount, they pencilled in Hayward for the part of Claire opposite Fred MacMurray but by the time they got around to filming, Hayward had left the studio.
Actor who got the part: Helen Walker
Hayward was supposed to have played Sophie in The Razor's Edge but she wanted to take some time off after the birth of her twins.
Actor who got the part: Anne Baxter
Hayward was held up on another film and unable to make this hit thriller.
Actor who got the part: Linda Darnell
Hayward was one of several names bandied about for the part of Nellie Forbush.
Actor who got the part: Mitzi Gaynor
20th Century Fox put Hayward on suspension when she refused to do this film.
Actor who got the part: Ann Sheridan
The part of Maria Vargas was supposedly written for (and inspired by the life of) Hayworth. She was offered the role and declined.
Actor who got the part: Ava Gardner
Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn considered her a more suitable candidate to play "Billie Dawn" than Judy Holliday, who originated the role on Broadway.
Actor who got the part: Judy Holliday
First choice to play Ilsa.
Actor who got the part: Ingrid Bergman
The part of Coral was intended for Rita Hayworth, but she chose to make the Lady From Shanghai with estranged husband Orson Welles instead.
Actor who got the part: Lizabeth Scott
George Cukor had considered and tested her for the part of Katharine Hepburn's kid sister.
Actor who got the part: Doris Nolan
Hayworth failed to appear for work on the set and Columbia replaced her.
Actor who got the part: Gloria Grahame
Hayworth was considered for the role of Brigid O'Shaughnessy.
Actor who got the part: Mary Astor
Planned for Miss Hayworth but postponed when she got married to Orson Welles.
Actor who got the part: Joan Caulfield
Rita Hayworth made a color screen test with Don Ameche and Gilbert Roland for the title role.
Actor who got the part: Loretta Young
She was considered for the role of Delilah, but Columbia would not loan her out.
Actor who got the part: Hedy Lamarr
Legendary director Stanley Kubrick was frustrated by the father of Heatherton who refused to allow his daughter to star in the film.
Actor who got the part: Sue Lyon
Heche reportedly auditioned for the role of Catherine Sloper but lost to Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Actor who got the part: Jennifer Jason Leigh
Francois Truffaut wanted Hedren to star in the film version of Ray Bradbury's novel. Alfred Hitchcock, who had Hedren under personal contract, refused to loan her and Julie Christie instead played both female roles.
Actor who got the part: Julie Christie
The professional falling out between Hedren and mentor Alfred Hitchcock contributed to the cancellation of the director's dream project about a young bride who vanishes during her honeymoon only to return un-aged decades later.
Actor who got the part: Film Never Made
The role of the glamorous mystery woman involved with amnesiac Gregory Peck is one of the many roles reportedly offered to Hedren that her mentor Alfred Hitchcock refused to let her do.
Actor who got the part: Diane Baker
Alfred Hitchcock considered casting chic Hedren and Sean Connery in a big, globe-hopping thriller about an adventurous retired spy and his wife trapping and unmasking a dangerous international kidnapper.
Actor who got the part: Film Was Never Made
Heigl was offered the role of Kate Libby and wanted to do it but her manager had already committed her to do 'Under Siege 2'.
Actor who got the part: Angelina Jolie
The American Oscar winner was the first choice to play Professor Quatermass.
Actor who got the part: Andrew Keir
Joan Crawford apparently had cast approval and insisted that Anne Helm be replaced after filming began.
Actor who got the part: Diane Baker
Robert Helpmann was proposed to play Sebastian Venable.
Actor who got the part: Actor's Face Not Seen
Hemingway auditioned for the lead role.
Actor who got the part: Sharon Stone
Henriksen was reportedly director James Cameron's original choice for the Terminator, even including early sketches drawn by the director himself.
Actor who got the part: Arnold Schwarzenegger
After Robin and Marian she was offered the leading role in this project. She declined it saying she was too old for it.
Actor who got the part: Liv Ulmann
Alfred Hitchcock and screenwriter Evan Hunter considered Audrey Hepburn a perfect actress to play spoiled, beautiful playgirl "Melanie Daniels."
Actor who got the part: 'Tippi' Hedren
Otto Preminger wanted Audrey for the main role in this movie based on Sagan's best seller. She lost to Jean Seberg, who finally got the part.
Actor who got the part: Jean Seberg
In her British chapter, in the early 50's, she was supposed to play a role in this production, later cancelled.
Actor who got the part: Project Was Dismissed.
Hepburn was originally cast as Kate Ter Horst but wanted too much $$.
Actor who got the part: Liv Ulmann
Audrey Hepburn was MGM's top choice for the lead, but Paramount wouldn't release her. the former studio regretted her non casting and moved on with a production that did not work enough.
Actor who got the part: Maria Schell
Otto Preminger wanted Audrey Hepburn for the female leading role, opposite Tom Tryon. She had to decline due to pregnancy.
Actor who got the part: Carol Lynley
Hepburn rejected the role of Dominique Vallon in this film.
Actor who got the part: Christine Carere
Audrey Hepburn was considered when Taylor was dying of pneumonia.
Actor who got the part: Elizabeth Taylor
William Wyler, who directed her in Roman Holiday, had a first thought to cast Audrey for the lead in this production.
Actor who got the part: Samantha Eggar
Famous italian director Visconti wanted Hepburn for the role of the Marquise, opposite Burt Lancaster. She declined, due to a character much post-modern, inconvenient to her cinema image.
Actor who got the part: Silvana Mangano
Blake Edwards, who directed Audrey in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" in 1961, thought that even if he had cast her for this production (something he wanted dearly), things would have failed, as they did. Time for commedies like this had come to an end by 1970 and beyond.
Actor who got the part: Julie Andrews
She said the role reminded her about her own life and consequently would be too hard to perform it.
Actor who got the part: Millie Perkins
In 1965, David Lean eagerly pursued Audrey for the role of Zhivago's wife, but she didn't want to work with someone so exact as him.
Actor who got the part: Geraldine Chaplin
William Friedkin wanted her for the role of the Mother. She would accept if the film was shot in Rome, where she was living at the time. It was shot in the U.S.
Actor who got the part: Ellen Burstyn
Cary Grant, her co-star in Charade, wanted Audrey for the teacher leading role in Father Goose. Audrey had other commitments.
Actor who got the part: Leslie Caron
Audrey Hepburn would play Queen Isabella in Mel Ferrer's production (he wanted to act Columbus' part), that was finally cancelled due to financial shortages.
Actor who got the part: Movie Was Cancelled
Director George Stevens thought of Audrey, before casting Taylor. the idea was dismissed since she was considered "too sophisticated"
Actor who got the part: Elizabeth Taylor
She declined the movie version after exhausting from a long season acting the same piece on Broadway.
Actor who got the part: Leslie Caron
She was initially considered for the role, particularly because of chemistry working with O'Toole (How to steal a million), and success in a musical such as My Fair Lady. Herbert Ross, director, and herself, turned the idea down.
Actor who got the part: Petula Clark
She did not comme to financial terms with the studio, so she declined Fred Zinnemann's offer. Later on, the movie was shot under George Roy Hill's direction.
Actor who got the part: Julie Andrews
Hal Wallis bought the rights for this Paramount production to author M. Luisa Bombal, thinking Audrey Hepburn for the lead. Bombal later declined the idea.
Actor who got the part: Movie Was Cancelled
Audrey Hepburn declined the part of a young dying woman in this film.
Actor who got the part: Jane Fonda
Audrey turned down the role to rest up before starting "the Nun's Story"
Actor who got the part: Ingrid Bergman
Audrey was originally considered for a bigger role in this film, but she had other commitments.
French director Jacques Demy wanted Hepburn and Bardot for this production. Finally Deneuve and real sister Dorleac, were hired to perform as sisters!.
Actor who got the part: Catherine Deneuve
Charles Chaplin considered Audrey Hepburn as the protegee ballerina in this tragic film. Claire Bloom was cast reportedly without knowing a single ballet motion.
Actor who got the part: Claire Bloom
The part of Sarah was written by Moreau for Hepburn. When Hepburn declined, Moreau played the part herself.
Actor who got the part: Jeanne Moreau
In 1969, Mel Ferrer wanted his wife to work along with him in this production. the project was cancelled, basically because the couple filed divorce charges. Finally, Omar Sharif, Ava Gardner and Deneuve herself were casted.
Actor who got the part: Catherine Deneuve
Studio wanted her for the demanding role of Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher and mentor. Arthur Penn, director, said no.
Actor who got the part: Anne Bancroft
Despite the fact Audrey Hepburn passed away in 1993, current director John Woo considered her profile for the leading role in this movie.This shows how influential she still is!
Actor who got the part: Thandie Newton
Producers of this TV film thought Audrey Hepburn should be cast for this religious role, particularly because she did masterly in "the nun's story". Negotiations failed.
Actor who got the part: Geraldine Chaplin
Stanley Kubrick wanted especially Audrey Hepburn to play leading feminine role in this production. She declined. There is a letter supporting this, that appeared in several media in 2004.
Actor who got the part: Movie Was Cancelled.
Offered and declined because she wanted to be more at home, raising her children.
Actor who got the part: Janet Suzman
Hitchcock hired her for the leading role, but she got pregnant and stepped down.
Actor who got the part: Movie Was Cancelled
Hepburn starred in the Broadway production but Mel Ferrer, Audrey's husband at the time, and director of the play, wanted control of the film and the project fell apart.
Actor who got the part: Movie Was Cancelled
After completion of "Two for the road" in France, Audrey moved alone to Hollywood, to start "One step more" with Rossano Brazzi. Once there, the project was cancelled.
Actor who got the part: Project Was Cancelled.
Audrey Hepburn turned down the lead role before it went to Meryl Streep.
Walt disney, who first shot a cartoon version of this story, put all his influence at work for a real acting version not to be produced.
Actor who got the part: The Movie Was Cancelled.
Blake Edwards, who had just directed her in "Breakfast at Tiffany's", wanted her participation in the role of the Princess. Project fell apart.
Actor who got the part: Claudia Cardinale
20th Century Fox wanted Audrey for the lead role, but in the end it went to Maggie Smith.
Actor who got the part: Maggie Smith
Alec Guinnes recommended her for the part, but director Mervyn Le Roy said she wasn't known enough. Plop!.
Actor who got the part: Deborah Kerr
At the peak of her career, in 1968, stepping down after completion of "Wait until dark", Audrey was offered the lead in this production. A lesbian role, much in the line of "the children's hour": human and intense. Her withdrawal was irreversible, however.
Actor who got the part: Liv Ullman
Audrey Hepburn was offered the title role in this film by director Otto Preminger.
Actor who got the part: Jean Seberg
Joshua Logan wanted Audrey to play leading role of japanese girl,opposite Brando, but she declined.
Actor who got the part: Miko Taka
Before the final version, Paramount bought the rights and thought of Hepburn for the leading role. She declined.
Actor who got the part: Julie Andrews
Joshua Logan considered top actress of the time Audrey Hepburn for leading role.
Actor who got the part: Mitzi Gaynor
Stanley Kubrick's number one actress Audrey Hepburn, was originally thought to play Varinia in this epic. Agreement didn't show up, and Stanley tried to cast her later, in "Napoleon",project that didn't work out either.
Actor who got the part: Jean Simmons
Producer Hal Wallis and playwright Tennessee Williams visiteed Audrey at her home in Switzerland in 1955 to discuss casting her as Alma in the film version of Williams' play. Negotiations soon broke down and Geraldine Page finally starred in the film six years later, repeating her stage role.
Actor who got the part: Geraldine Page
Hepburn was offered the role of Lady Brett but felt it was too risque of a role for her.
Actor who got the part: Ava Gardner
Hollywood producers told british director Tony Richardson to cast Hepburn for the leading role, otherwise they wouldn't finance it. He chose an unknown actress anyway. Pity!.
Actor who got the part: Rita Tushingham
Cecil B. de Mille wanted Audrey Hepburn for the role of Queen Nefretiri, but she lacked the figure to fill silk gowns the role strongly required.
Actor who got the part: Anne Baxter
Directors Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise wanted Hepburn for the role of Maria, but she declined, due to other commitments.
Actor who got the part: Natalie Wood
Hepburn turned down the role of the Countess Ellen Olenska in this first film adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel.
Actor who got the part: Irene Dunne
The star decided against playing the only daughter of a wealthy industrialist in this MGM film.
Actor who got the part: Barbara Stanwyck
This movie was supposed to be made in the 1960's with Shirley MacLaine as Evalina and Hepburn as her Aunt Dolly Bloomer, who designed the famous Bloomer pants. The movie of the Broadway musical was not made.
Actor who got the part: None
According to IMDB, Katharine Hepburn dropped out of this movie before filming began.
Hepburn and Doris Day were reportedly offered parts in this remake. Both declined, giving way to Audrey and Shirley.
According to Rudy Behlmer's Memo from David O. Selznik, RKO was going to buy the rights for the play to make a movie with Hepburn in 1935. The play was later sold to Warner Brothers and Davis was cast as Judith Traherne instead.
Actor who got the part: Bette Davis
Spencer Tracy thought Katharine Hepburn should play both Beatrix and Ivy.
Actor who got the part: Lana Turner, Ingrid Bergman
Neither Hepburn nor Spencer Tracy liked the script MGM offered them about the marital problems of a bickering couple.
Actor who got the part: Lucille Ball
Katharine Hepburn was considered to play Scarlett but producers felt that she didn't fit the role at that time.
Actor who got the part: Vivien Leigh
Before MGM obtained the rights, RKO planned to make this film with Katharine Hepburn as the innkeeper's daughter Margaret O'Neal.
Actor who got the part: Joan Crawford
Bette Davis wanted Katharine Hepburn to play opposite her, as the imperious concert pianist Sandra Kovak, in this Warner Bros melodrama.
Actor who got the part: Mary Astor
Had been considered the frontrunner to star in the MGM drama.
Actor who got the part: Lana Turner
Great director William Wyler had planned to make this film with Hepburn in the role of "Angharad." Wyler instead went off to do "The Little Foxes."
Actor who got the part: Maureen O'Hara
Katharine was offered the role of Miriam Deering but she turned it down.
Actor who got the part: Olivia De Havilland
According to A Scott Berg's biography of Hepburn, she was offered the role of Aunt March in the 3rd film version (Hepburn had played Jo in the first one). She declined, saying she could not be better than Edna Mae Oliver in the '33 version.
Actor who got the part: Mary Wickes
Katharine Hepburn was director Billy Wilder's first choice for the role of Helen, the girlfriend of alcoholic Don Birnam, but Hepburn had signed on to do Without Love and declined the part.
Actor who got the part: Jane Wyman
MGM considered Hepburn to star as the title character, the scientist who discovered radioactivity.
Actor who got the part: Greer Garson
This film was originally planned to re-team Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.
Actor who got the part: Shirley Booth
Vincente Minnelli first wanted Hepburn to co-star as the Countess Sanziani in what would turn out to be the director's final movie ... and biggest flop.
Actor who got the part: Ingrid Bergman
Hepburn was a fan of George Bernard Shaw and wanted to film his play. A script was specially prepared for her but financing was never obtained.
Actor who got the part: Sophia Loren
Katharine Hepburn actually bought out her contract with RKO so she would not be forced to appear in this film.
Hepburn wanted to be cast as Lavinia Mannon but MGM did not want to make the movie.
Actor who got the part: Rosalind Russell
Katharine Hepburn turned down the role of artist Hanna Jelkes.
Actor who got the part: Deborah Kerr
Katharine Hepburn declined the role of the cockney waitress Mildred Rogers.
Actor who got the part: Bette Davis
Hepburn, along with several other actresses, rejected this role in Frank Capra's last movie.
Actor who got the part: Bette Davis
Katharine Hepburn was offered the role of Southern belle Loxi Claiborne and declined it.
Actor who got the part: Paulette Goddard
Universal bought the rights to Ruth Gordon's play "A Very Rich Woman" for Hepburn. Gordon had co-written "Adam's Rib" and "Pat and Mike," but Hepburn--despite a long friendship with Gordon--wasn't interested in this material.
Actor who got the part: Rosalind Russell
Katharine Hepburn was said to be considered for the role of Marian Starrett.
Actor who got the part: Jean Arthur
Katharine Hepburn turned down the part of the lonely aging divorcee Mary Treadwell in this Stanley Kramer drama.
Actor who got the part: Vivien Leigh
In an AFI interview, Katharine Hepburn says that she was interested in playing Alma in this film, but producer Hal Wallis reportedly would not pay what she asked.
Actor who got the part: Geraldine Page
Considered for the part of Carrie Berniers.
Actor who got the part: Geraldine Page
Was to star for her longtime director collaborator George Cukor as the elderly eccentric world traveler. She walked off the project when Cukor refused to cast actress Joy Bang as the hippie "Tooley."
Actor who got the part: Maggie Smith
Katharine Hepburn was considered to repeat her stage performance of Margaret Mary Elderdice in the made for TV movie based on a play by Ernest Thompson.
Actor who got the part: Shirley MacLaine
Whitewater was a proposed co-starring film for Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn that was announced in 1977, but never made.
Actor who got the part: Film Not Made
The role of Eden Pedecaris was originally intended for Hepburn.
Actor who got the part: Candice Bergen
Katharine Hepburn was considered for this film when it was to be made by Frank Capra.
Actor who got the part: Rosalind Russell
Barbara Hershey was reportedly considered for the lead role.
Actor who got the part: Meryl Streep
Barbara Hershey turned down the lead role of Alex.
Director John Wayne offered the part of Jim Bowie to Charlton Heston, who did not want to be directed by Wayne, and declined.
Actor who got the part: Richard Widmark
Heston liked the script of director Blake Edward's epic comedy chase but had to turn down playing 'The Great Leslie' because of a production schedule conflict with "The Agony and The Ecstasy."
Actor who got the part: Tony Curtis
Although he turned down the part of Rafer Hoxworth in Hawaii, Heston did accept the lead in the sequel, The Hawaiians.
Actor who got the part: Richard Harris
Heston was considered to play Chief Brody.
Actor who got the part: Roy Scheider
Rejected director George Cukor's offer to star opposite Marilyn Monroe in this musical comedy.
Actor who got the part: Yves Montand
Heston wanted the role of Thomas More, but the producers never considered him as a candidate.
Actor who got the part: Paul Scofield
Declined the role of the American ambassador.
Actor who got the part: Gregory Peck
Charlton Heston reportedly turned down the Father McFeely role.
Actor who got the part: James Woods
Charlton Heston was director Billy Wilder's original choice for the role of Sefton.
Actor who got the part: William Holden
Turned down the great role of "Pike Bishop" in Sam Peckinpah's influential and classic Western.
Actor who got the part: William Holden
Could not take the role of Darlene due to scheduling conflict.
Actor who got the part: Kate Beckinsale
Before being cast as Julie, Jennifer was considered to play Helen.
Hewitt was reportedly offered the role of Alex McDonough but passed due to scheduling conflicts.
Actor who got the part: Jessica Biel
Considered to play Lolita.
Actor who got the part: Dominique Swain
Jennifer very nearly got the role of Tricia Jones.
Actor who got the part: Renee Humphrey
Hewitt auditioned for the role of Juliet.
Actor who got the part: Claire Danes
During the original casting process, Jennifer Love Hewitt was cast as Paige Prescott.
Actor who got the part: Denise Richards
The romantic comedy was originally planned for Hewitt.
Actor who got the part: Jennifer Lopez
Hickey's part as the blackmailer was cut from Elaine May's comedy when the film was re-edited by Paramount studios and a sub-plot lost.
Actor who got the part: Character Cut
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