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 - 8,063 actors - to click on... More than 40 years in the making!! And 2,502,855 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 LADY Elisabeth Counsell tested (among the many) for Bond's masseuse Patricia Fearing in Thunderball, 1964. She had previously been in From Russia With Love. "In a punt going by with an actor called Michael Culver." She won 68 other roles since 1962 (producing two of them) in a variety of series from Doctor At Sea and Fame Is The Spur to the recent Born To Kill and Cold Call.

WHERE TO FIND ..?

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

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

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

Clint and Sergio's Dollars trilogy has finally entered the hallowed pages of Special Movies. So has The Sopranos! With - and it's about time, right? - Friends coming, as they say, shortly.

"I love Woody. I believe him, and I would work with him any time." - Scarlett Johansson. Way to go, girl!

"If I’m ever playing a a squeaky-clean person, then I’m looking for the darker side." - Maggie GyllenhaaL

"I‘m just going to do documentaries from now on. They’re far easier. No hair and make-up." - Helena Bonham Carter

"What is the point of Jennifer Aniston these days?" - Sunday Times TV critic Camilla Long

"I mean, I'm just borrowing this flesh suit. I’m going to give this back to the Lord anyway. Might as well share it, if I can feed my family and whatnot." Tiffany Haddish on movie nudity

"If they’re looking for Jane Bond, then I’d love it. Why the hell not? It turns out I’m pretty good at kicking ass." The War of the Worlds' Eleanor Tomlinson

"If anything came up at Fox studios I’d do it. I sang a song about prunes once. I would dub in the sound of footsteps in movies." Gwen Verdon

"I was a great casting director - forever suggesting other people instead of me." - Alexandra Stewart. For example, she turned down Honey in Dr No

"Blondes definitely do not have more fun. Trust me." - Mila Kunis

"I find acting really hard and really painful." - Phoebe Waller-Bridge, collecting her Emmy

"I always chose movies that I thought would fail so that I wouldn’t have to deal with the fame thing." Barbara Harris. (Yeah, movies like ... Robert Altman’s Nashville and Hitchcock’s finale, Family Plot)

"It’s like talking to a crumpled bag of sweets." - Tilda Swinton on Bill Murray

"If I had stayed in Hollywood, I would have killed myself. Or someone would have done it for me."
 - Piper Laurie

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