- Kandice Stroh, Foxes, 1979. Sex and the American teenage girl… The UK director Adrian Lyne seems to be the only unit member (well, it was his film- making debut) who remembered that Moore auditoned, at 17, for a demi rôle among the foxy chicks of San Fernando Valley. As Deirdre: into herself, her sexuality, boys and disco. Dropping out of LA’s Fairfax High at 16, Moore’s “concrete decision” to act was influenced by a beautiful teenage actress neighbour. “She knew where she was going. She liked who she was, made statements about what she liked and didn’t. I wanted to learn what it was she had.” That was Nastassja Kinski – “she probably doesn’t even remember.” Moore tried drama class, quit, modelled and was into low-budget horrors when Lyne saw her for the fox turned hooker to support a drug habit.
- Tanya Roberts, The Beastmaster, 1981. And 18-year-old Demi struck out in several auditions for Kiri in the sword ‘n’ scocery number headed by Marc Singer in what her called “a leather hula skirt”! Two years on, Tanya was the similar Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Both movies featured her swimming nude… and led to her being a Bond Girl opposite Roger Moore in A View To A Kill. 1984.
- Jennifer Beals, Flashdance, 1982. The only time Demi lacked, to be brutal, fuckability… Adrian Lyne saw her again and passed again – a year before casting agent Wally Nicita chose her for Blame It On Rio because she had star quality. “The camera loves her. She’s a wonderful actress and has a distinctive voice that made her different from the other starlets.” The “nation-wide search“ (of LA…!!) came down to 20 possibilities for flashprancerAlex Owens. Jamie Lee Curtis, Bo Derek, Janice Dickinson, Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Grey (yet she won Dirty Dancing), Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah, Mariel Hemingway, Helen Hunt (hated the script), Jennifer Jason Leigh, Heather Locklear, Andie MacDowell, Kathy Najimy, Tatum O’Neal, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kyra Sedgwick, Sharon Stone and Debra Winger. Pix of the final three – Beals, Demi Moore and Leslie Wing – were shown to the studio’s construction guys by Paramount suits asking: “Which of these women do you most wanna fuck?” Dissolve.
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Annette O’Toole, Superman III, 1983.
- -Elisabeth Shue, The Karate Kid, 1983. Dmi Moore and Helen Hunt lost The Kid’s girl, Ali-with-an-i, to Elisabeth Shue because they hadn’t make the Burger King commercial that caught director John Avildsen’s (and America’s) eye in the 80s. She was also a Shue-in for the first sequel, by which time, however, she had re]turned to Havard University. Her kid brother Andrew (Melrose Place) Shue had a bit role at the karate tournament.
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Maureen Teefy, Supergirl, 1984. Demi said she was in. Then said she was out. (Another Moore, Dudley, also quiit). And Teefy took over as Lois Lane’s sister, Lucy, in the, alas, flop film. Alas because the Salkind producers immediately sold their Super-rights to Cannon… hence the excremental Superman IV in 1986.
- 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 19 potential Maeroses. From the sublime Moore, Rosanna Arquette, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Liza Minnelli, Michelle Pfeiffer (been there, done that and got the Married To The Mob and Scarface t-shirts), Debra Winger… to the ridiculous: Geena Davis, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah, Emma Thompson, Sela Ward, Debra Winger… and the damn stupid: Linda Blair, Carrie Fisher, Kelly Lebrock, Heather Locklear, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ally Sheedy.
- Heather Langenkamp, A Nightmare On Elm Street, 1985. Moore, Courteney Cox, Tracey Gold and Jennifer Grey were in the mix for Nancy, the teenager who utters the immortal cry of horror after a near drowning: “Oh God, I look 20!”
- Roxanne Hart, HIghlander, 1985. Some 16 guys were up for Christophe(r) Lambert’s immortal clansman, Connor McLeod. But as many as 24 women for Brenda Wyatt, the modern-day forensics cop bedded by him. Brooke Adams… who must have felt she had as great chance, having already successfully partnered Connery in The Great Train Robbery, 1978, and Cuba, 1979. Her rivals were Karen Allen, Rosanna Arquette, Jennifer Beals, Lorraine Bracco, Elisabeth Brooks, Kate Capshaw, Glenn Close, Lisa Eilbacher, Linda Fiorentino, Kim Greist (Terry Gilliam’s huge Brazil error), Linda Hamilton, Diane Lane, Carolyn McCormick, Demi Moore, Annette O’Toole, Elizabeth Perkins, Tanya Roberts (booked for 007’s View to a Kill), Annabella Sciorra, Catherine Mary Stewart, Diane Venora, Sela Ward, Sigourney Weaver and (phew!) Sean Young. Broadway’s rank outsider won!
- Kelly LeBrock, Weird Science, 1985. Also convinced of her future (“everyone knew it was going to happen”), producer Joel Silver saw her as the perfect woman computerised by two tweenage nerds. Writer-director John Hughes did not.
- Colleen Camp, Clue, 1985. Anyone for Cluedo? Because that’s what we were watching… “We’re trying to find out who killed him, and where, and with what!” UK auteur Jonathan Lynn told Buzz Feed he ruminated over More, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Madonna and Demi Moore for ze typical French maid cliché. Until Camp turned up – and on, in her own French maid outfit. He loved her comedy skills. Even more so, her figure. “There was no avoiding it.” Chicago critic Roger Ebert called her “bouncy.”
- Kim Basinger, 9 1/2 Weeks, 1986. Clean of drug and booze for St. Elmo’s Fire (Joel Schumacher had sent her home one day for being high “and in 24 hours this young woman turned her life around”), she turned up for a third Adrian Lyne encounter. “I’m very ambitious and very driven.” Lyne thought Demi was too young. Six years on, he felt she was perfect for his Indecent Proposal). Lyne saw ’em all! Demi, Jacqueline Bisset, Teri Garr, Tatum O’Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Dominique Sanda, Kathleen Turner, Sigourney Weaver. And Andie MacDowell. who thought the script was borderline sleaze. Oh, it was way over the border!
- Meg Ryan, Innerspace, 1986. The very title comes from dialogue in the film that inspired this spoof: Fantastic Voyage, 1965. Hero Dennis Quaid is miniaturised into a capsule and injected into Martin Short’s butt. (Never that funny). For the secondary rôle of Quaid‘s girl, 22 actresses were seen, auditioned and/or tested: Karen Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Beverly d’Angelo, Jodie Foster, Linda Hamilton, Anjelica Huston, Amy Irving (being wed to exec producer Steven Spielberg didn’t help!), Amy Madigan, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Demi Moore, Michelle Pfeiffer, Molly Ringwald Julia Roberts, Rene Russo, Ally Sheedy, Elisabeth Shue, Madeleine Stowe, Sigourney Weaver, Claudia Wells, Sean Young. And, of course, Meg – and Quaid married her during 1991-2001.
- Glenn Close, Fatal Attraction, 1986.
- Jodie Foster, The Accused, 1988.
Awful thing to say. Except it is true. Jodie Foster would never have won her (first) Oscar for this trenchant drama – if actress Kelly McGillis had not been raped in 1982… At first, the role of the rape victim Sarah Tobias was written for Andie MacDowell. She passed. The Paramount suits then saw 34 other young actresses for the (real life) victim. Or, for their own rape bait fantasies – including 16-year-old Alyssa Milano! Foster was refused a test because she was “not sexy enough”! And, anyway, the studio had decided upon McGillis, a high flyer in Paramount’s Witness and Top Gun. And, naturally, she refused point-blank! She knew what it was to be brutally raped and Kelly had no wish to revisit the horror and agony of her own assault six years earlier. The suits were annoyed. They needed her. She was hot at the box-office, their box-office. They had made her a star!! Eventually, McGillis agreed to play Sarah’s defence attorney – on condition that unsexy Jodie played Sarah! The suits caved, tested Foster and the rest is Oscar history… So is the huge list of talent also seen for Sarah. Starting with the Fatal Attraction also-rans: Moore, Rosanna Arquette, Ellen Barkin, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Beals, Jennifer Grey, Melanie Griffith, Linda Hamilton, Darryl Hannah, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Diane Keaton, Kelly Preston, Meg Ryan, Jane Seymour, Sharon Stone, Meryl Streep, Debra Winger. And moving on to the younger Melissa Sue Anderson (trying to break her Little House on the Prairie image), Justine Bateman, Valerie Bertinelli, Phoebe Cates, Jennifer Connelly, Joan Cusack, Judy Davis, Kristin Davis, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish, Mariel Hemingway, Kelly LeBrock, Virginia Madsen, Brigitte Nielsen, Tatum O’Neal, Molly Ringwald, Mia Sara, Ally Sheedy, Brooke Shields, Uma Thurman. Oh, and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, said the suits, was “too nice.” Rape victims shouldn’t be nice? Oh, Hollywood! - Melanie Griffith, Working Girl, 1988. “If you ever want to make money, do Cinderella,” said Mike Nichols. Even better if he’s directing – despite a coke-head star. (He made Her Highness Melanie Griffith pay $80,000 from her salary for having to close down shooting one night due to her wasted condition). Fox never wanted her, anyway, but Njchols was Nichols; he ruled. “She incarnated Tess and there was no great version of the movie without her,” declared producer Douglas Wick. The earliest notion was Madonna. Mike rang producer Douglas Wick: ”Turn on your TV. Madonna’s on The Tonight Show. See what you think of her…” They also saw Lorraine Bracco (devastated after, she thought nailing her test), Goldie Hawn (bit old at 43), Diane Lane, Shelley Long, Demi Moore, Sarah Jessica Parker. Plus Michelle Pfeiffer and Meryl Streep for Tess or her wicked witch boss, Katharine; won by Sigourney Weaver. (Some 26 years later, Griffith’s daughter, Dakota Johnson, headed the darker and, supposedly, more erotic version of the office power-play tale in Fifty Shades of Grey).
- Laura San Giacomo, Pretty Woman, 1989.
- Marcia Gay Harden, Miller’s Crossing, 1990. The Coen brothers tackle 30s/40s, gangster noir… Their 1988 draft had Kathy Borowitz, Linda Fiorentino, Laura Sametz and Diane Venora in mind for the gang boss’ moll, Verna. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Demi Moore, Julia Roberts, were later tested. But MGH was the best actress of them all. Only she and John Turturro actually played the roles suggested for them two years previously. Only she and John Turturro actually played the roles suggested for them two years previously.
- Elizabeth Pena, Jacob’s Ladder, 1990. And (after Fatal Attraction), a fifth Adrian Lyne face meet… Was there no one else in town making movies with young women? He also saw Jennifer Lopez, Andie MacDowell and Julia Roberts (shortlisted two years later for his Indecent Proposal). But Pena had him from the first audition. Chicago critic Roger Ebert praised her as highly for “creating a believable and even sympathetic woman while at the same time suggesting dimensions that the hero can only guess at.”” Lyne did not even consider Mooree Indecent Proposal. Yet she got it. And argued constantly on whether her young wife preyed upon by millionaire Robert Redford should be strong or vulnerable. “Half the time… I could’ve murdered her.”
- Andie MacDowell, Hudson Hawk, 1991. Demi was Mrs Bruce Willis by now and Bruce tried to get his her as his leading lady – adding weight to media rumours that she was responsible for the sacking of Dutch star Marushcka Detmers who began the film that MacDowell finished. Fortunately for Mrs Willis, schedules did not interface with her Butcher’s Wife location or she would have gone from 1990’s top box-office winner, Ghost, to 1991’s top flop.
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rush, 1991. Universal wanted Demi’s suddenly bankable name. First time director Lili Fini Zanuck (Richard’s wife) stuck out for Leigh – only keen on “to make movies that I would go to see.”
- Geena Davis, A League of Their Own, 1991.
Long-time ball fan, director Penny Marshall had never heard of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (1943-1954) until seeing a 1987 PBS documentary. She swiftly contacted the makers to join her Hollywood writers to use their title for a fictional comedy-drama version. Penny staged baseball tests for about 2,000 actresses – if you can’t play ball, you can’t play the Rockford Peaches! Geena Davis, Rosie O’Donnell, Lori Petty were best; those turned down included Farrah Fawcett, Lori Singer, Marisa Tomei and Maria Maples (before becoming the second Mrs Donald Trump). Jim Belushi and Laura Dern were set to star in 1990 when Fox suddenly pulled the plug; Tom Hanks and Geena took over at Columbia. Also on the plate for the star player Dottie Hinson were Sally Field, Nicole Kidman, Kelly McGillis, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Brooke Shields, Debra Winger and Sean Young. Demi, Mrs Bruce Willis, had to quit due to pregnancy. Said Marshall: “Bruce literally screwed her out of the part.“ - Juliette Lewis, Cape Fear, 1991. Among the many – the very many – considered by Steven Spielberg and, later, Martin Scorsese for the teen daughter of Nick Nolte and Jessica Lange: Danielle Bowden. (Nicole in the 1962 original). Christina Applegate, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Shannen Doherty, Nicole Eggeret, Bridget Fonda, Jodie Foster, Helen Hunt, Nicole Kidman, Diane Lane, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alyssa Milano, Sarah Jessica Parker, Molly Ringwald, Meg Ryan, Winona Ryder, Brooke Shields, Tiffani Thiessen, Reese Witherspoon -Some found it too sexy and, indeed, few could have equalled the on-heat musk of Juliette’s totally improvised – and one take – seduction scene with Robert De Niro.
- Sharon Stone, Basic Instinct, 1991.
- Meg Tilly, Leaving Normal, 1992. All set with Cher until pregnant with their second daughter, Scout LaRue Willis… as proved to the world on the August 1991 Vanity Fair cover.
- Kelly Lynch, Three of Hearts, 1992. The first threesome had been Madonna, Demi, Robert Downey Jr. “I don’t think I’m a big time movie star.” No, she just acted like it, becoming known as Gimme Moore for her demands, such as, on The Butcher’s Wife, 1991: an assistant, dialogue coach, masseuse, psychic consultant, nanny, bodyguard, hairdresser, make-up person, stand-in, limo and private plane for location-hopping.
- Meg Ryan, Sleepless in Seattle, 1992. Or… When Harry Met Sally Meets When Sam Met Suzy. Same writer, Nora Ephron. Same Sally – Meg Ryan in the second of three ephemeral outings with Tom Hanks. Also forgetting that romcoms are rarely plausible: Kim Basinger, Joide Foster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Julia Roberts. And a surprise Brit – Natasha Richardson.
- Geena Davis, Angie, 1993. The official reason was Madonna was already booked for Abel Ferrara’s Dangerous Game, 1992. Then, one of her emails was leaked – furious with the head Fox, Joe Roth, for dumping her for a non-Italian in the titular role. In truth, she fled after hearing Roth didn’t want her because she couldn’t carry a movie. (Not that this one did any better without her). Her director, Jonathan Kaplan, also quit and Martha Coolidge took over with her 1991 Rambling Rose star – after some thoughts about a dozen others, from Halle Berry to Meryl Streep. Oh, very Italian!
- Marisa Tomei, Untamed Heart, 1993. Demi is good and has her Bruce. Tomeii is good and has her Oscar.
- Sharon Stone, Sliver, 1993. Moore, among others, was a reserve as producer Bob Evans set out to melt the intractable Stone… Sharon gave in and, he alleged, made his life hell. (Gimme Moore would not have..?)
- Kathleen Turner, Undercover Blues, 1993. Considered long before Herbert Ross inherited the project from William Dear and changed the title from… Cloak and Diaper. Owch!
- Bridget Fonda, Point Of No Return, 1993. Hollywood dangled all the usual damsels but could never persuade realisateur Luc Besson to re-tread his French Nikita, 1900. Joel Schumacher also refused to direct and it finished as a B (for John Badham) movie, (and a Z-style TV series). Besson simply took the money and made The Fifth Element, 1997… with Demi’s Bruce.
- Tia Carrere, Wayne’s World 2, 1993. Once Kim Basinger offered to be Garth’s girl in the big budget sequel, Mike Myers was so jealous of partner Dana Carvey that he wanted Wayne’s gal to be Demi – or Madonna.
- Sandra Bullock, Speed, 1993. Although sharing the heroics and the driving of the bus-bomb with Keanu Reeves, most girls saw it as The Guy’s film. An amazing 36 refused to be Annie: Demi, Rosanna Arquette, Kim Basinger, Halle Berry, Glenn Close (!), Geena Davis, Cameron Diaz, Carrie Fisher, Bridget Fonda, Jodie Foster, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah, Mariska Hargitay, Barbara Hershey, Anjelica Huston, Diane Lane, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kay Lenz, Alyssa Milano, Tatum O’Neal, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, Winona Ryder, Jane Seymour, Ally Sheedy, Brooke Shields, Meryl Streep (!), Emma Thompson (!), Meg Tilly, Marisa Tomei, Kathleen Turner, Sigourney Weaver and Debra Winger.
- Julia Ormond, Sabrina, 1995. Among the many seen for the unnecessary (obviously!) Audrey Hepburn re-tread were Moore, Juliette Binoche, dancer Darcy Bissell, Sandra Bullock, Julie Delpy, Cameron Diaz, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robin Wright, Catherine Zeta-Jones. All far better suited than Ormond. So it blows.
- Robin Wright Penn, Forrest Gump, 1995. She balked when director Robert Zemeckis insisted that potential Jennies had to test – with Tom Hanks as Gump. Also fleeing: Jodie Foster and Demi Moore. Robin was first testee, when nearly eight months pregnant with Hopper Jack Penn. And she made all the suits cry! One of the reasons the film won six Oscars.
- Sandra Bullock, While You Were Sleeping, 1995. A light confection. just what the hard-nosed Gimme Moore required after such dross as The Scarlet Letter – as big a flop as Sandra’s Speed was a winner.
- Kristin Scott Thomas, The English Patient, 1996. She certainly tried hard to win Katharine. “I know that Demi’s name was always mentioned in the context of alternative casting,” director Anthony Minghella told journalist Peter Biskind. However, the Fox boss of the time, Bill Mechanic, told the same writer: “I promise on my life – I am not a liar – Demi Moore’s name was never uttered, Demi Moore was never in a movie while I was at Fox, Demi Moore was never offered a movie, much less The English Patient. We’re not stupid.” No? What, then, would Mechanic call pulling out of a film that won Best Picture and eight other Oscars at little Miramax?
- Uma Thurman, Batman & Robin, 1996.
- Kim Basinger, The Simpsons #208: When You Dish Upon A Star,TV, 1998. Since its 1989 birth, the yellowtoon family Simpson smashed records for episodes, audiences, and the most guest stars (as themselves or others). From Buzz Aldrin, Glenn Close (Homer’s Mm), Dennis Franz (Evil Homer!), George Harrison, Stephen Hawking, Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hope, Eric Idle to Paul and Linda McCartney, Conan O’Brien (a Simpsons writer made good), Michelle Pfeiffer, Mickey Rooney, Ringo Starr, Meryl Streep plus Barry (and Betty) White! Not all celebs played ball. Willis refused a second invite – and his then-wife, Demi Moore, with him. Other candidates for the celeb couple were Tom Cruise-Nicole Kidman, Kurt Russell-Goldie Hawn… and Alec Baldwin-Kim Basinger, who said: Sure! Eventually leading Baldwin’s unknown funny-bone into 30 Rock, 2006-2013.
- Julia Roberts, Runaway Bride, 1999. Sandra Bullock, Geena Davis, Ellen DeGeneres also jilted the comedy – and, at the time, Harrison Ford. Julia made it with her pretty man, Richard Gere.
- Angelina Jolie, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, 2001. For the girls, Lara Croft is their James Bond. Well, more of a sexy Indiana Jones. And 21 hopefuls wanted to bringther sassy, video-game adventurer to life. Demi More was, perhaps, the most keen, but who was simply disregarded. Christina Applegate, Drew Barrymore, Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz, Nicole Eggert, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kate Hudson, Elizabeth Hurley, Ashley Judd, Jennifer Lopez, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anna Nicole Smith (a joke, surely), Catherine Zeta-Jones were considered. Fairuza Balk, Natalie Cassidy, Kirsten Dunst and Milla Jovovich auditioned while Denise Richards, Charlize Theron, Uma Thurman and Liv Tyler simply refused. And Lara’s guy (who fled the sequel) was Daniel Craig – complete with a Walther PPK pistol that he would use again as 007 in Casino Royale, 2005.
- Sharon Stone, Basic Instinct 2, 2005. There was a moment in her high priced revenge for being trapped (said she) into flashing her pubic hair in the first film (which just happened to make her a global star!) when Stoner when refused to be Catherine Trammell again. MGM ran to Demi – or Ashley Judd. And my goodness, who was that rushing back into the fold? And for what, an obvious flop before one scene was shot in anger… Because… What could she do for an encore?
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, Palindromes, 2004. For the oldest version of a baby-hungry 13-year-old – played by eight actors of varying ages, sizes, colours and even sexes in Todd Solondz’s sorta sequel to his 1995 landmark, Welcome To The Dollhouse. Critic Roger Ebert got it right. “You may hate it, but you have seen it, and in a strange way it has seen you.”
- Nicole Kidman, Nine, 2009.
- Charlize Theron, Æon Flux, 2005. Moore refused as the titular assassin in the utopian city of Bregna, circa 2415.
- Michelle Monaghan, Trucker, 2009. A 30-something single mom, a cold, hard-drinking, promiscuous, loner trucker paying off her own rig – who else were they gonna call but GI Jane, right? Yet it was Monaghan who took all the necessary lessons to drive the big rig…
- Sarah Jessica Parker, Lovelace, 2011. Moore was supposed to cameo as Gloria Steinem but dropped out due “the stresses in her life right now, Demi has chosen to seek professional assistance to treat her exhaustion and improve her overall health.” Mary-Louise Parker took her place. For seconds. SJP finally played Steinem – snipped in the final cut of the biopic about the hardcore superstar Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat, the surprise 1972 porno-chic phenomenon attracting millions to screenings… including Hollywood gentry Warren Beatty, Johnny Carson, Sammy Davis Jr, Jack Nicholson, etc. Throat cost peanuts ande made a global $600m-plus, probably the most profitable movie ever produced.
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight, 2014. In a snit when his script wes leaked, this is the Tarantino film that nearly wasn’t. And isn’t. A movie, that is. It’s a single-set stage play with enough speechifyin’ for a UN climate congress. Never mind, Quentin loved his second Western (third if you count Reservoir Dogs). Or was it just the search for his Daisy Domergue among Moore, Geena Davis, Jennifer Lawrence, Katiee Sackhoff, double Oscar-winner Hilary Swank, Amber Tamblyn (excellent, if too young, during the public April script reading at LA’s United Artists theatre), Michelle Williams, Evan Rachel Wood, Robin Wright No, he was “crazy, gaga, eyes popping out of my head happy with this film.” Good for him. Not for us. He was punching below his weight.
- Debra Messing, The Mysteries of Laura, TV, 2014-2016. Demi and Felicity Huffman were also up for the smartest NYPD cop (and single Mom with two sons) in the NBC take on the 2009 Spanish show, Los misterios de Laura – cleverly used as opening act for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for two years.
- Ariana Grande, Wicked, 2022. Demi was the first actress to show any interest in Gregory Maguire’s book on the life and times of the wicked witch of the West in the land of Oz. Next, Amanda Seyfried campaigned for Glinda The Good over five years. Producer Marc Platt said Whoopi Goldberg and Laurie Metcalf were just as keen. Ariana Grande won the two-part movie – as previously suggested by Broadway’s Glinda, Kristin Chenoweth.
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