An Actor that was perectly cast

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Anthony Hopkins in the role of Hannibal Lecter when paired with Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling...

 

[HiStitch626]

Agree that she was great in the show! But I've always wondered why they changed her from the book. She was a horrible person in the book, lol! I wanted to punch her for how she treated Carrie. Oh well, I suppose the TV series differed a great deal from the books.

Laura really fictionalized Eliza Jane in her book. In real life they had a good relationship and Laura even sent her daughter Rose to live with Eliza Jane while Rose was in high school.

 

[emily nicole]

Laura really fictionalized Eliza Jane in her book. In real life they had a good relationship and Laura even sent her daughter Rose to live with Eliza Jane while Rose was in high school.

Oh really? She did her sister-in-law DIRTY! Lol. Wonder why she did that? She could've made someone up to be an evil teacher character!

 

[floridafam]

John Cusack, Jeremy Piven, and Dan Akroyd in Grosse Pointe Blank.

 

[floridafam]

Pretty much the entire cast of The Birdcage. Hank Azaria was brilliant.

 

[floridafam]

Shelley Long in Troop Beverly Hills.

 

[HiStitch626]

Oh really? She did her sister-in-law DIRTY! Lol. Wonder why she did that? She could've made someone up to be an evil teacher character!

Everything in the Little House books is fictionalized, and both her publisher and her daughter Rose encouraged her to make some changes so that the books would be more dramatic. If you ever have a chance to read Prairie Girl, that was her non-fiction autobiography.

 

[Simba's Mom]

Pretty much the entire cast of The Birdcage. Hank Azaria was brilliant.

And such "Guatamalen-ness"!!
I've seen that movie so many times!

 

[KayMichigan]

Robert Preston as the musical con man Harold Hill in "The Music Man". He originated the role on Broadway and when they made the film version, the composer Meredith Wilson told the studio he wouldn't give his OK unless Preston got the part in the movie. The studio wanted to cast Frank Sinatra.

 

[floridafam]

And such "Guatamalen-ness"!!
I've seen that movie so many times!

Same.

“What are h*** are Pirin tablets?”
“It’s a aspirin with the a and the s a scraped off.”
“My God, what a brilliant idea.”
“I know.”

 

[chickapin parterre]

Although Preston scored a great success in the original stage version of the show, he was not the first choice for the film version, mostly because he was not a major box office star. Jack L. Warner was notorious for wanting to film stage musicals with bigger stars than the ones who played the roles onstage. Bing Crosby was offered the role of Harold Hill, but turned it down.[5] Warner also offered the part to Cary Grant, but he declined, saying "nobody could do that role as well as Bob Preston". Grant also reportedly told Warner that he would not bother to see the film unless Preston was in it.[6][7][4] Warner wanted Frank Sinatra for the role of Professor Hill, but Meredith Willson insisted upon Preston.[

Robert Preston as the musical con man Harold Hill in "The Music Man". He originated the role on Broadway and when they made the film version, the composer Meredith Wilson told the studio he wouldn't give his OK unless Preston got the part in the movie. The studio wanted to cast Frank Sinatra.

Howard appeared on the 1969 Disneyland Records album The Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion. It featured the story of two teenagers, Mike (Howard) and Karen (Robie Lester), who get trapped inside the Haunted Mansion. Thurl Ravenscroft plays the Narrator, Pete Reneday plays the Ghost Host, and Eleanor Audley plays Madame Leota. Some of the effects and ideas that were planned but never permanently made it to the attraction are mentioned here: the Raven speaks in the Stretching Room, and the Hatbox Ghost is mentioned during the Attic scene. It was reissued in 1998 as a cassette tape titled A Spooky Night in Disney's Haunted Mansion and on CD in 2009.

Howard played Steve Bolander in George Lucas' coming-of-age film American Graffiti in 1973.[1]

 

[pigletliz]

Helen Mirren in The Queen
Walter Matthau in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Jack Lemmon in The Apartment
The entire cast of The Help

 

[NWOhiogal]

The entire cast of "Back to the Future"

Also the entire cast of "Amadeus", except I never cared for Elizabeth Berridge as Constanze. She was just too contemporary for my taste.

One more: The cast of "1776." It was pretty much the entire Broadway cast.

 

[low-key]

oh my gosh no, why not start a new topic on horrible choices made for characters.

actually reccescup did same day I started this thread, I was taking the oppiste of his approach

 

[floridafam]

John Cusack, Jeremy Piven, and Dan Akroyd in Grosse Pointe Blank.

And Joan Cusack. How could I have forgotten her? She pretty much nails everything she’s in. When she’s on the phone trying too locate the missing ammo. Such talent.

 

[Walt's Dream]

Agree with the cast of 1776. I would have loved to see it on Broadway.

 

[takemethere]

Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffanys

 

[chickapin parterre]

Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffanys

The Oscar-nominated screenplay was written by George Axelrod, loosely based on the novella by Truman Capote. Changes were made to fit the medium of cinema and to correspond to the filmmakers' vision. Capote, who sold the film rights of his novella to Paramount Studios, wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Holly Golightly, whom he had described perfectly in the book. Barry Paris cites Capote's own comments on the choice of actress: "Marilyn was always my first choice to play the girl, Holly Golightly." Screenwriter Axelrod was hired to "tailor the screenplay for Monroe". When Lee Strasberg advised Monroe that playing a "lady of the evening" would be bad for her image, she turned it down and performed in The Misfits instead. When Hepburn was cast instead of Monroe, Capote remarked: "Paramount double-crossed me in every way and cast Audrey".[2] Shirley MacLaine was also offered the part of Holly, but she turned it down and performed in Two Loves instead.[3] Steve McQueen was offered the role of Paul Varjak but declined the offer due to being under contract.[4]

 

[floridafam]

Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone.

 

[floridafam]

Jason Robards in Parenthood.