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Rejected Roles of 1978

Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of 1978. Where does this sort of trivia come from? Movie fans from around the world submit this trivia to us from TV interviews, books, magazine articles, DVD commentary, and other Hollywood and entertainment sources around the Internet.

Featured 1978 Trivia:

Muhammad Ali in Heaven Can Wait?
Joe Pendleton was originality a boxer and Warren Beatty offered the role to Muhammad Ali. When Ali refused Beatty changed it to a quarterback and played the role himself.

See who turned down these 1978 films:

- Animal House (7)
- The Buddy Holly Story (1)
- Coma (2)
- Coming Home (4)
- Days of Heaven (3)
- Death on the Nile (2)
- The Deer Hunter (1)
- Edward and Mrs. Simpson (1)
- Eyes of Laura Mars (1)
- Fedora (1)
- Foul Play (1)
- Goin' South (1)
- Grease (6)
- Halloween (3)
- Heaven Can't Wait (4)
- Heaven Can Wait (3)
- I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1)
- Interiors (1)
- International Velvet (1)
- Jaws 2 (1)
- A Little Night Music (4)
- Midnight Express (3)
- Pretty Baby (16)
- Straight Time (1)
- Superman (39)
- An Unmarried Woman (5)
- A Wedding (1)
- The Wild Geese (1)
- The Wiz (4)

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