When 20th Century Fox purchased the film rights to the Jacqueline Susann's novel Valley of the Dolls, it had just one person in mind for the part of Jennifer North- Raquel Welch.
Raquel, however, balked at playing an untalented starlet whose body was the only thing keeping her employed in pictures. The role eventually went to Sharon Tate.
Touchstone Pictures' 1988 film Big Business was originally written for Barbra Streisand and Goldie Hawn. When both actresses turned the roles down they went to Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin.
