Can you tell us about those films in which Monroe was offered to act, but they never came out? What roles were offered to her?
Source; https://www.notstarring.com/actors/monroe-marilyn
Roles turned down by Marilyn Monroe:
Baby Doll (1956)
Playwright Tennessee Williams’ first choice to play the childish bride in Elia Kazan’s bold film version.
Actor who got the part: Carroll Baker
The Big Heat (1953)
Columbia wanted to borrow Monroe from Fox, but Fox’s asking price was too high.
Actor who got the part: Gloria Grahame
The Blue Angel (1959)
Marilyn rejected 20th Century-Fox’s silly offer to remake the Marlene Deitrich film in the role of Lola-Lola. She chose to make Billy Wilder’s “Some Like it Hot” instead.
Actor who got the part: May Britt
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Author Truman Capote wanted Marilyn to play Holly Golightly, however Audrey Hepburn was cast in the lead role.
Actor who got the part: Audrey Hepburn
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Marilyn’s Actor Studio aspirations to be a “serious actress” by playing Grushenka were not respected by Hollywood.
Actor who got the part: Maria Schell
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Marilyn Monroe sought the lead role of Maggie the Cat.
Actor who got the part: Elizabeth Taylor
Cleopatra (1963)
Marilyn Monroe was considered for the lead role.
Actor who got the part: Elizabeth Taylor
The Egyptian (1954)
Wanted badly to co-star with Marlon Brando in the small but key role as “Nefer.” The studio boss instead cast his a newcomer who happened to be his then-mistress.
Actor who got the part: Bella Darvi
Goodbye Charlie (1964)
Turned down the leading role in the Vincente Minnelli-directed comedy in which a gangster dies and gets reincarnated as a woman.
Actor who got the part: Debbie Reynolds
Guys and Dolls (1955)
Monroe wanted to play the showstopper role of “Miss Adelaide” in the movie version of the Broadway smash hit, but the director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who had worked with her in “All About Eve”, didn’t want to work again with her.
Actor who got the part: Vivian Blaine
Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
Marilyn refused to star in Heller in Pink Tights as she believed the role was rubbish.
Actor who got the part: Sophia Loren
How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)
Monroe went on suspension at Fox for refusing to appear in this comedy.
Actor who got the part: Sheree North
Irma La Douce (1963)
In spite of the wretched time Billy Wilder had directing Marilyn in Some Like It Hot, he recognised her box office appeal, and considered her in 1960 for this film.
Actor who got the part: Shirley MacLaine
Rain (1961)
Marilyn hoped to make a TV version of Somerset Maugham’s Rain, playing the prostitute Sadie Thompson, to be directed by her Actors Studio teacher Lee Strasberg.
Actor who got the part: Not Made
The Stripper (1963)
One of the many projects 20th Century Fox had in mind for Monroe, this film was written by William Inge, who had also written “Bus Stop.”
Actor who got the part: Joanne Woodward
What a Way to Go! (1964)
This musical was planned for Monroe by her home studio, 20th Century Fox.
Actor who got the part: Shirley MacLaine
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