10 Roles Written For Actors That Didn't Play Them

Blake Edward's 1961 adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's will forever be remembered as the film that cemented Audrey Hebburn as a female idol, an uncomfortable racist Mickey Rooney stereotype and the other thing that the guy from The A-Team was in.

Though the original author hated Hepburn, her naive socialite with a cigarette holder was a for a time a pop culture trend to which many aspired. It still holds sway over character design, inspiring the look of Anne Hathaway's Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises.

But it could have been a very different story. What many gloss over when talking about Marilyn Monroe's celebrity - in part due to her untimely death and in part due to her overwhelming beauty - is the fact that she had excellent comic timing. Her roles in Some Like it Hot and The Seven Year Itch are as funny as they are enticing. That's most likely the reason she was Capote's first choice for Holly Golightly.

Alas, Monroe's acting coach Lee Strasberg was concerned with her public image, and advised her that taking a role as a...ahem..."lady of the evening" might not resonate well with her fans.

The controversy, if there would have been one, wouldn't have mattered, as the actress died the following year.