10 Small Movie Roles You Didn't Know Held Signifigance

It's encouraging, and somewhat disarming, to know that the utmost care was taken by both Quentin Tarantino and Margot Robbie in bringing Sharon Tate to life onscreen in Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood. Robbie spent a long time with Tate's surviving relatives, hoping to bring to her a justice that otherwise was so brutally snuffed out.

Tate was among the victims the night Charles Manson decided to order his minions into the Hollywood hills in 1969, but had she not been, there's a chance she would have been just a delightful comic actress. That's the impression you walk out of Tarantino's alternate history with, and it's certainly what she tried to bring to her last film role in The Wrecking Crew.

The fact that The Wrecking Crew was the first artifact of pop culture directly affected by Manson only highlights just how harmless it was.

Martin had previously played superspy Matt Helm in three previous outings, and The Wrecking Crew was meant to have a fifth. Matt Helm promised to return in The Ravagers, but Martin's costar's slaying was too much for the actor to take.

There's a reason it's easy to find footage of Martin completely sloshed on the set of his show, or on many a Tonight Show appearance, and it's less fun when you realize he lost a son to 'Nam and a co-star to a murderous cult. Matt Helm five would never be filmed.