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Mia Farrow, The Great Gatsby, 1973. “Schmuck that I was, I thought she dug me,” recounted producer Robert Evans about how The Texas Moxie entered his life to nab the role he’d promised to his wife Ali McGraw before she ran off with Steve McQueen. “If Ali’s not playing Daisy, why I’d just love to test for it.” Unknown to Evans, Lois had already met with director Jack Clayton. He thought her more suited to the second lead. That made her, said Evans, go from seductress to witch in a blink. “Jordan? You’re telling me I’m Jordan? I want Daisy, do you hear me. I want Daisy!” Evans kicked her out – in his usual B-movie macho lingo. “I’m a memory. Got it? If we’re in the same room, you don’t see me. Got it? Now get the fuck out of my life. Got it?” And she played “the fast” Jordan Baker.Time magazine critic Jay Cocks decreed: “The film is faithful to the letter of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel but entirely misses its point.”
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Barbara Bach, The Spy Who Loved Me, 1976.
Birth year: Death year: Other name: Casting Calls: 2