WELCOME to a unique directory of what you never saw on-screen. The films the stars did not make. The movies that never were. The most definitive collation of casting stories ... Check up on all the films - of yesterday, today and tomorrow - that your favourite stars never made... A cast of thousands - 7,766 actors - to click on... More than 40 years in the making!! And 2,313,666 words of spirited text. The ultimate in movie trivia ... Better! Exactly the kind of history that Hollywood deserves. Back to front. Upside-down. Inside out. Full of flashbacks, close-ups, tracking shots (and, alas some badly edited sequences - sorry about that!) forming a fascinating, new and often bizarre flip-side perspective on your treasured movies and stars.

This is the film that bred this site ... after Robert Redford told me he'd planned a little black-white version - with Robert De Niro, and Michael Moriarty as Woodstein.

BOND BABE Paris poppette Yvonne Monlaur was among the final few testing as Patricia, Thunderball's health club masseuse … with the mink glove. Delightful Mollie Peters won and then wed a policeman.

WHERE TO FIND ..?

STREEP KONG Meryl v Italian producer Dino de Laurentiis. Read all about it - in her first item.

TORN APART Why didn't Rip Torn make Easy Rider - see his blue section on his page.

FULL METAL HALL For the fullest story of why Anthony Michael Hall did not make Stanley Kubrick's 'Nam classic, go to Hall's page. (The blue section).

PERFECT GRYSHENKA How Hollywood ruined Marilyn Monroe's dream role in The Brothers Karamazov is on Marilyn's page - item #17

QUOTES

Asked if she'd work with Woody Allen again, Frida Pinto said, "Absolutely not. I wouldn't work with him because I'm in solidarity with women who have come out with their stories, whether they are proven or not." Unbelievable!

"I don't know if I want to work for Disney." Dave Bautista. A real hero.

"This is my first priest… I'm ticking the boxes. Cowboy - check. Politician - check. Lawyer - check. I've basically spent my career working my way through The Village People."Rob Lowe on selecting roles

"Snogging Rachel Weisz is like you've won the lottery." Olivia Colman on The Favourite.

"I actually played Santa once. It was a voice for an animated film. I got fired. I don't think people bought me as Santa." John Malkovich

"What is the most important lesson life has taught me? You are never first choice." Zoe Wanamaker

"I'm nothing but compost most of the time." Bill Murray

"Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike." Lee Remick

"What Audrey Hepburn had, you couldn't teach, you couldn't even learn it. God kissed her on the cheek and there she was." Billy Wilder

"Nearly every woman I know in Hollywood has been 'Weinsteined' at some point. If not by him, then by someone else." Lisa Guerrero

Writing about Where Eagles Dare, 1968, Geoff Dyer said Clint Eastwood, "is not just squinting, he is squinting in German."

& THANKS to Eric Idle for this about Robert Downey Sr directIng Robert Downey Jr (and Eric) in Too Much Sun, 1990.  Senior:  "Robert, when  do you learn your lines?"  Junior:  "Oh usually by the third take."

Alas poor Chewie, we knew him well. His alter-ego, the great Peter Mayhew,  died in May at 74 ... David Prowse refused the role; he hated the suit. The London  hospital porter from Yorkshire won it in ten seconds. All he did was ... stand up. He was 2.2m tall. He had depth as well as height. George Lucas called him “the closest any human being could be to a Wookiee: big heart, gentle nature.” “We were partners in film and friends in life for over 30 years and I loved him,” said Harrison Ford. Rian Johnson (director of the next trilogy) added: “To create a beloved character with warmth and humour is a testament to any actor’s spirit. To do it under a half ton of yak hair takes a true legend.”

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