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1960s Movie Trivia: Rejected Roles
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Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of the 1960s. Where does this sort of trivia come from? Movie fans from around the world submit fun trivia to us from TV interviews, books, magazine articles, DVD commentary, and other Hollywood and entertainment sources around the Internet.

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Paul McCartney in Romeo and Juliet?
Director Franco Zefferelli wanted Paul McCartney to play Romeo. McCartney turned him down because he didn't think he was a good enough actor and the Beatles were recording "Sgt. Pepper" at the time.

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Popular Actors in the 1960s
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- Audrey Hepburn
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Julie Christie
- Jane Fonda
- Shirley MacLaine
- Katharine Hepburn
- Warren Beatty
- Bette Davis
- Frank Sinatra
- Ann-Margret
- Natalie Wood
- Cary Grant
- Laurence Olivier
- Joan Crawford
- Kim Novak
- Charlton Heston
- Julie Andrews
- Sean Connery
- Marilyn Monroe
- George Peppard

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