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Rejected Roles of 1970

Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of 1970. Where does this sort of trivia come from? Movie fans from around the world submit this trivia to us from TV interviews, books, magazine articles, DVD commentary, and other Hollywood and entertainment sources around the Internet.

Featured 1970 Trivia:

Akira Kurosawa in Tora! Tora! Tora!?
American studio bosses lured the Japanese master director to the epic about Pearl Harbor by telling him that British master director David Lean would direct the American section of the film. Kurosawa, learning this was a lie, did all he could to get himself fired. And succeeded.

See who turned down these 1970 films:

- The Adventurers (7)
- Airport (4)
- The AristoCats (1)
- Beneath the Planet of the Apes (2)
- Blood on Satan's Claw (1)
- Born Yesterday (1970s) (2)
- Catch-22 (4)
- Crescendo (1)
- Darling Lili (2)
- Diary of a Mad Housewife (2)
- The Dunwich Horror (1)
- Five Easy Pieces (5)
- Getting Straight (1)
- How Do I Love Thee? (2)
- Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1)
- Love Story (13)
- MASH (2)
- Myra Breckinridge (8)
- On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (4)
- The Only Game in Town (1)
- The Owl and the Pussycat (3)
- Panic in Needle Park (1)
- Patton (6)
- Performance (4)
- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (4)
- Ryan's Daughter (4)
- Scrooge (2)
- A Severed Head (1)
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (1)
- The Twelve Chairs (1)
- Two Mules for Sister Sara (1)
- The Vampire Lovers (1)

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