On iconic film roles that might have gone wackazoid….
Lucille Ball was actually screen-tested for the role of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind. Not as weird as you might think, because at that point in her career she was regarded as a glamour girl / bombshell. Photos from those years are fascinating.
Stranger still was Margaret Mitchell’s casting suggestion. Because she had written the novel Gone with the Wind, the film producers kept asking her for casting suggestions. She kept saying she was a novelist, not a film maker and that she had no ideas. Finally she said, that, well, she did have one suggestion: Rhett Butler should be played by Groucho Marx. Now I personally think she just said that to get the producers to leave her alone. If so, it worked. They quit asking her.
But if there are parallel universes… I’d love to visit the one where Lucy and Groucho starred in that film.
On iconic film roles that might have gone wackazoid….
Lucille Ball was actually screen-tested for the role of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind. Not as weird as you might think, because at that point in her career she was regarded as a glamour girl / bombshell. Photos from those years are fascinating.
Stranger still was Margaret Mitchell’s casting suggestion. Because she had written the novel Gone with the Wind, the film producers kept asking her for casting suggestions. She kept saying she was a novelist, not a film maker and that she had no ideas. Finally she said, that, well, she did have one suggestion: Rhett Butler should be played by Groucho Marx. Now I personally think she just said that to get the producers to leave her alone. If so, it worked. They quit asking her.
But if there are parallel universes… I’d love to visit the one where Lucy and Groucho starred in that film.