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Roles turned down by Audrey Hepburn:
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
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
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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
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