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1960s Movie Trivia: Rejected Roles

Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of the 1960s. Where does this sort of trivia come from? Movie fans from around the world submit fun trivia to us from TV interviews, books, magazine articles, DVD commentary, and other Hollywood and entertainment sources around the Internet.

Featured Trivia:

Paul McCartney in Romeo and Juliet?
Director Franco Zefferelli wanted Paul McCartney to play Romeo. McCartney turned him down because he didn't think he was a good enough actor and the Beatles were recording "Sgt. Pepper" at the time.

See who turned down these 1960s films:

1960...

- Psycho (8)
- Let's Make Love (5)
- Spartacus (5)
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1961...

- West Side Story (26)
- Return to Peyton Place (8)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (7)
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1962...

- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (12)
- Lawrence of Arabia (11)
- Dr. No (9)
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1963...

- Cleopatra (1963) (22)
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (11)
- The Birds (11)
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1964...

- Marnie (18)
- My Fair Lady (12)
- The World of Henry Orient (9)
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1965...

- The Sound of Music (24)
- The Collector (9)
- Doctor Zhivago (8)
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1966...

- Fahrenheit 451 (14)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (12)
- Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (5)
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1967...

- The Graduate (68)
- Valley of the Dolls (21)
- Bonnie and Clyde (16)
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1968...

- Rosemary's Baby (9)
- Funny Girl (8)
- Oliver! (4)
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1969...

- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (10)
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (9)
- The Wild Bunch (8)
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Popular Actors in the 1960s Click to see which films they turned down:
- Audrey Hepburn - Elizabeth Taylor - Julie Christie - Jane Fonda - Shirley MacLaine - Katharine Hepburn - Warren Beatty - Bette Davis - Frank Sinatra - Ann-Margret	- Natalie Wood - Cary Grant - Laurence Olivier - Joan Crawford - Kim Novak - Charlton Heston - Julie Andrews - Sean Connery - Marilyn Monroe - George Peppard