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 - 7,884 actors - to click on... More than 40 years in the making!! And 2,370,575 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 Gloria Paul, the Briitsh gift to Italian movies was among the final few testing as Thunderball’s Domino in 1964. She previously auditioned for Tatiana in From Russia With Love - won in 1963 by a genuine Italian, Daniela Bianchi. Gloria retired in 1996 after a freak accident left her semi-paralysed.

WHERE TO FIND ..?

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.

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

QUOTES

"Bitch, please. You've been to space." Nick Fury.

"I don’t care what it is, how much I’m getting paid, I’m not leaving my trailer in a cape.” Mark Wahlberg on superheroes.

"I need to know what it's for. If you can't really tell why you've got your tits out, you're probably in the wrong scene." Phoebe Waller-Bridge on screen nudity.

"Fox at the time thought [HR] Giger was a bit obscene and a bit rude and a bit sexual. And I said: ‘Sounds good to me.’ Which nearly saw me off the case."Ridley Scott on the Alien designer.

"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.

"Acting is acting. It’s pretending. It’s not going down a coal mine, it’s not saving lives." Charles Dance.

"You can make a bad film out of a good script, but you can’t make a good film out of a bad script. It’s that simple." George Clooney.

Early titles were All You Need and Jack Got Hit By A Bus, before it became Yesterday. “It works well in conversation… ‘I saw Yesterday yesterday’ or ‘I‘m going to see Yesterday tomorrow’.” Scenarist Richard Curtis.

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

"I did not get into acting to just play people like me. You have to draw the line somewhere, and I don't want to live in a world where straight people play straight people and gay people play gay people." Taron Egerton.

"I didn’t care about the movies really. I was tall. I could talk. It was easy to do." Joseph Cotton "His voice was so melodious, he could talk a gal out of her pants in five minutes." Katharine Hepburn on Joseph Cotton.

Why didn’t you direct a western? "Maybe fear that I couldn’t do it very well." Director John Carpenter.

Steven Spielberg asked Javier Bardem to be Witwer in Minority Report, 2001. No way. "I didn’t want to just run around chasing Tom Cruise.".

"I didn’t leave the movie industry, it left me." Francis Ford Coppola.

"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.

"The difference between filming in Hollywood and France? They don‘t have wine in the canteen!" Jean Diujardin.

"Oh my god, it sounds like a room deodoriser. I hated the title." Director Phil Alden on his classic Field of Dreams.

"My first picture was with (Elia) Kazan, who was nobody to sneeze at." Warren Beatty.

"You should be naked when you are young. You want to have that on film." Regina Hall on screen nudity.

"I’m making a film called Hope with Hans Petter’s wife, who’s also directing. So basically I’m playing Hans Petter… But I’m not playing him. He’s so slow it would be too boring." Stellan Sjkarsgard.

"Not today." Arya Stark, GoT.

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