Best Movies of the 1970s

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1970s Movie Trivia: Rejected Roles

Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of the 1970s. 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.

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See who turned down these 1970s films:

1970...

1971...

- Straw Dogs (8)
- The Last Picture Show (6)
- Dirty Harry (6)
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1972...

- The Godfather (32)
- Cabaret (16)
- Lady Sings the Blues (5)
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1973...

- The Exorcist (22)
- Live and Let Die (9)
- 40 Carats (5)
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1974...

- Mame (9)
- Blazing Saddles (7)
- The Godfather: Part II (4)
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1975...

- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (15)
- Jaws (14)
- Nashville (9)
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1976...

- Taxi Driver (24)
- Family Plot (11)
- A Star Is Born (1976) (8)
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1977...

- Star Wars (25)
- Heroes (18)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (11)
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1978...

- Superman (39)
- Pretty Baby (16)
- Animal House (7)
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1979...

- Apocalypse Now (12)
- Kramer vs. Kramer (11)
- All That Jazz (11)
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Popular Actors in the 1970s Click to see which films they turned down:
- Barbra Streisand - Al Pacino - Jack Nicholson - Faye Dunaway - Elizabeth Taylor - Cybill Shepherd - Jane Fonda - Audrey Hepburn - Marlon Brando - Raquel Welch	- Goldie Hawn - Dustin Hoffman - Julie Christie - Melanie Griffith - Paul Newman - Natalie Wood - James Caan - Steve McQueen - Kim Basinger - Warren Beatty