* In 1957 Sam Spiegel signed him to play the sheriff in The Chase - film not made for almost a decade later, when Marlon Brando played the part
* In 1957 it was announced MGM were talking to him about reprising his stage role in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof which Elizabeth Taylor was attached to... how genuine was this? In Gazzara's memoirs he says George Cukor was meant to direct and Cukor and Ben Thau wanted him, but Cukor left when the gay subplot had to be cut. Eddie Mannix pushed for Paul Newman and got his way.
* In 1964 he and Jack Garfein announced they had bought the screen rights to Calder Willingham's novel Natural Child - never made
* In 1957 it was announced he turned down Wind in the Evergaldes
* In 1957 it was announced he had the rights to the novel The Bandit by Garvin Maxwell about the outlaw Guiliano (I think Gazzara played him on TV)
* In his memoirs he says he turned down the Henry Fonda role in the 1956 War and Peace.
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