AUDREY HEPBURN - HEPBURN 'TOO BEAUTIFUL' FOR HONEY ROLE

HEPBURN 'TOO BEAUTIFUL' FOR HONEY ROLE

Late screen beauty AUDREY HEPBURN was rejected for the lead role in 1961 movie A TASTE OF HONEY - because she was "too stunning". The Breakfast At Tiffany's star was wanted for the role of Josephine in the film, playing a plain working-class teenager who becomes pregnant by an African-American sailor. But the role eventually went to fledgling actress Rita Tushingham - a little-known thespian from Liverpool, England. Tushingham says, "The studio didn't want an unknown - they wanted, actually, Audrey Hepburn. She was a stunningly beautiful woman but I don't think she would have been right for Jo." Hepburn died in 1993, aged 63.