Riduculous Re-casting...

[SoCalDem]

I posted this before but a "bug" must have eaten it :eyes:

Sometimes when I am watching an old movie, I wonder how the movie woould have turned out with different actors in the pivotal roles..like



Rhett Butler...........Red Skelton
Scarlett O'Hara........Marlena Dietrich

[BurtWorm]

1. Ronald Reagan as Rick in Casablanca

Almost true story!

:puke:

PS: Who made your cat sig? Quentin Tanrantino?

[SoCalDem]

2. Was the female lead supposed to be different too???

Reagan as Rick...yeeeeeccch:(

[BurtWorm]

3. I can't remember

who was supposed to play the female lead. Jane Withers? (I made that up.)

[mitchum]

4. Hattie McDaniels

I think...

[jmm]

5. According to Snopes that's just an urban legend.

http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/reagan.htm

The legend of Ronald Reagan as Rick Blaine springs from a press release that the Warner Bros. publicity office planted with The Hollywood Reporter on 5 January 1942 (and released to dozens of newspapers across the country two days later):


Ann Sheridan and Ronald Reagan co-star for the third time in Warners' Casablanca, with Dennis Morgan also coming in for top billing. Yarn of war refugees in French Morocco is based on an unproduced play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.


That's it. The sum total of Ronald Reagan's involvement with Casablanca was this planted press release -- an item that was nothing but pure hokum, for a variety of reasons:

[SoCalDem]

6. Can't see Ann Sheridan OR Ronnie in that film..

:)

[wyldwolf]

7. Elvis the lead in "A Star is Born?" Burt Reynolds as "Superman?"

Both were casting choices. I would have loved to see Elvis in the role instead of Kristofferson. Reynolds as Supes? Bleeeh!

[soleft]

8. Take the cast of Kramer v. Kramer and put them in the Shining

Imagine Dustin Hoffman chasing Meryl Streep with an ax. Now, that would be scary

[SoCalDem]

9. How bout the cast of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World"

for "The Longest Day "...

Or


Martin & Lewis in "Guadalcanal Diary"...



or



Ben Afleck & J-Lo in "Streetcar Named Desire"...co-starring Jennifer Anniston as Blanche DuBois..