- Anjelica Huston, Prizzi’s Honor, 1984. “So let’s do it. Right here. On the Oriental. With all the lights on.” Maerose Prizzi knew what she wanted, where and when from her Family’s hit man, Jack Nicholson – the unlikeliest Mafioso since the Corleones’ James Caan. Before realising his daughter was Oscar-winning perfection, director John Huston looked at some 17 potential Maeroses. From the sublime Rosanna Arquette, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Liza Minnelli, Demi Moore, Michelle Pfeiffer (been there, done that and got the Married To The Mob and Scarface t-shirts), Debra Winger… to the ridiculous: LeBrock, Geena Davis, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah, Emma Thompson, Sela Ward, Debra Winger… and the damn stupid: Linda Blair, Carrie Fisher, Heather Locklear, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ally Sheedy.
- Glenn Close, Fatal Attraction, 1986.
- Jodie Foster, The Accused, 1987. Auditioned for the gang rape victim. Jodie was better(although considered “not sexy enough”)and won her first Oscar. Paramount suits perversely saw Ellen Barkin, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Beals, Jennifer Connelly, Bridget Fonda, Melanie Griffith, Linda Hamilton, Daryl Hannah, Mariel Hemingway, Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Andie MacDowell, Kelly McGillis, Brigitte Nielsen, Meg Ryan, Sharon Stone, Uma Thurman,etc,among their rape bait fantasies.
- Geena Davis, Thelma & Louise, 1990.
- Traci Lords, Zack and Miri Make A Porno, 2007. Kelly and Kelli (Maroney) were all seen for the bad taste comedy – to be Bubbles, named for the inevetable reason. A real (ex)-porno star beat ’em all. And, said Chicago critic Roger Ebert, Traci was for once the only grown-up in a movie.
Birth year: Death year: Other name: Casting Calls: 5