> This brings up another subject which interests me.  What about films where
> characters were played by two (or more???) actors?  ED WOOD got me started
> here, with Bela Lugosi's death.  Jean Harlow in SARATOGA.  Natalie Wood in
> that science fiction film (at least one aspect of the plot was changed
> following her death).  There's a story--true or apocryphal--that Guru Dutt
> played the lead in PYAASA, in my opinion his greatest film, because the actor
> who was supposed to do it quit at the last minute.
> Any more?
> Carol
>
The N.Wood film--can't remember the name, it was "forgettable"-- was
filmed here in the Triangle area, at Burroughs-Wellcome building.  A
famous case of changing actors is Bu~nuel's Phantom of Liberty, in
which he cast a second woman in the lead role after the first quit.
The second looked nothing like the first, and he made no attempt to
explain the change of actor.  The result was, uh, maybe confusing?
But in that kind of movie, it hardly matters.
--gib
 
Gilbert Smith
North Carolina State University
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