1. - Shelley Winters,  The Balcony, 1963. Joseph Strick's first choice finally  made  her first film  as  the voluptuous Molly Bloom in his Ulysses four years later.

2. - Hildegarde Neil, Antony and Cleopatra, 1972. Charlton Heston even asked  Orson Welles to direct. "Do  you  have  a  great Cleopatra," said Welles.  "We don't have any yet - we'll pick an actress and you make her great"  "Not with that part,  dear boy."