notstarring.com notstarring.com
Find your favorite actors or movies:
The Main Event (1979)  «   » 
 Who was considered for The Main Event?

Goldie Hawn
Hawn was supposed to play the boxing trainer/manager opposite Ryan O'Neal.
Actor who got the part: Barbra Streisand

Diana Ross
The moviemakers suggested to Ryan O'Neal that Ross should play the boxing manager/trainer. He told them he thought it was "ridiculous."
Actor who got the part: Barbra Streisand



See more 1970s trivia




Take Today's Quiz
before they were famous






 Other Popular Movies:
- The Majestic (1)
- Major Dundee (2)
- Major Payne (1)
- Making Love (4)
- Malcolm X (1)
- Malice in Wonderland (1)
- Mallrats (8)
- The Maltese Falcon (5)
- Mame (9)
- Mamma Mia (1)
- Mamma Mia! (1)
- A Man Called Peter (2)
- A Man for All Seasons (5)
- The Man From Elysian Fields (4)
- Man of Steel (1)
- Man of The Year (1)
- Man on Fire (4)
- Man on the Moon (5)
- Man's Fate (3)
- Man's Favorite Sport (1)
- Man Trouble (2)
- The Man Who Came to Dinner (3)
- The Man Who Fell to Earth (1)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) (1)
- The Man Who Would Be King (5)
- The Man with the Golden Arm (4)
- The Man with the Golden Gun (1)
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (1)
- The Manchurian Candidate (2004) (2)
- Mandalay (1)