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1960s Movie Trivia: Rejected Roles

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.

Featured Trivia:

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.

See who turned down these 1960s films:

1960...

- Psycho (8)
- Let's Make Love (5)
- Spartacus (5)
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1961...

- West Side Story (14)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (6)
- Parrish (5)
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1962...

- Lawrence of Arabia (11)
- Dr. No (8)
- Lolita (1962) (7)
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1963...

- Cleopatra (1963) (16)
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (11)
- The Birds (8)
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1964...

- Marnie (15)
- My Fair Lady (10)
- The World of Henry Orient (9)
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1965...

- The Sound of Music (22)
- The Collector (9)
- Doctor Zhivago (7)
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1966...

- Fahrenheit 451 (13)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (12)
- A Man for All Seasons (5)
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1967...

- Valley of the Dolls (15)
- The Graduate (14)
- Bonnie and Clyde (12)
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1968...

- Rosemary's Baby (7)
- Oliver! (4)
- Skidoo (3)
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1969...

- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (10)
- Midnight Cowboy (8)
- The Wild Bunch (8)
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Popular Actors in the 1960s Click to see which films they turned down:
- Audrey Hepburn - Katharine Hepburn - Julie Christie - Frank Sinatra - Warren Beatty - Jane Fonda - Bette Davis - Cary Grant - Marilyn Monroe - Charlton Heston	- Kim Novak - Julie Andrews - Elvis Presley - Judy Garland - Sean Connery - Laurence Olivier - Elizabeth Taylor - Joan Crawford - Steve McQueen - Hayley Mills