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 - 8,063 actors - to click on... More than 40 years in the making!! And 2,749,022 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.

THE BOND WOMAN

Happy birthday to ya! Hap-py birth-day! Not only to the ultimate screen spy, James Bond - 60 this year! -  but also, of course, the matrix for all Bond women, the sublime Ursula Andress… sauntering from the waves, warbling Underneath The Mango Tree. Un-for-gettable!

“He was explosive - he can convince you to buy a pair of shoes that are two sizes too big.” -  Regina King on British director Jeymes Samuel.

“I’m wilful… extremely impulsive.  I’m like a steamroller -  I just go forward.  Someone falls down in front of me, then I fall in love with him.” - Britt Ekland at 77.

“Playing it safe doesn’t necessarily get you anywhere. You have to take chances. especially if you’re a black woman. You have no choice.” -  Halle Berry.

“She knows when she’s got it or not, and you trust her because she’s Jane Campion.  When you work with someone epic like that, you just want to make them proud.” Kirsten Dunst on making Campion’s victory lap, The Power of the Dog.

“Acting roles take up less time, you know. Resurrection I shot in five weeks over the summer. “Directing a film takes a year or two years, or possibly even more.”



“You do all that as a writer, and then you do all that, again, as a director when you’re working out how to capture and film that. But [directing] also combines music and composition and image, and I’ve always painted and I’ve always played music and, you know, all of these things combined - word, music, image - are all the things that I’ve ever cared about. I’m more me when I’m directing than anything else.” - Rebecca Hall, a director’s director-daughter (and spiffing actress).

"If you think I made poor pictures after A Woman's Face, you should see the ones I went on suspension not  to make!"
- Joan Crawford.

“He’s the most humble guy. He’s got that perfect career where he gets to do what he loves, and he gets to do it with impeccable form. And then, he can disappear… go off and live his life. He’s not bothered, he lives out in Ireland, and he has the perfect balance. He’s not on social media… So, I think when he goes back into the world, like when he comes into London or New York and there’s a frenzy around him, I don’t think it quite marries the headspace that he’s in. He kind of does it and then walks away from it.“ - Annabelle Wallis on Peaky Blinder co-star Cillian Murphy.

“I don’t want to be a French actress. I want to be an actress.”  - Léa Seydoux

"He has an edge and a magnetism and a pure, sweet smile that surprises you.” - critic  Pauline Kael on Mickey Rourke… a long, very long, time ago. 

 “You guys might be like ‘Why is Rebel Wilson hosting the BAFTAs?’ I come from the bush, but if you think about it don’t we all,”? - Rebel Wilson during her London gig.

“Michael moves at a very quiet 100 miles per hour. He’s excited, and it’s not manic. He’s got this wry smile, things are good. And it’s infectious. You start waking up around him.” – Amy Ryan on Michael Keaton.

“‘I always wanted to be an actress. My mother told me to get a job as an elevator operator – because Dorothy Lamour was discovered that way.” – the great Sally “Hot Lips” Kellerman: RIP, 1937-2020.

"Julia throws herself into her work with an abandon. She doesn't even remember what she's done after they yell Cut!  You can see her face morph in ways that you cannot do if you're self-conscious. She sticks her finger right into the socket." – Laura Linney on her Ozark co-star, Julia Garner.

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