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or pre-production. One famous daring casting choice was the selection of

Dustin Hoff man for his groundbreaking role in Th e Graduate. Later, Hoff man

came very close to playing teacher Charles Keating in Dead Poets Society

(1989), but for most people who have seen the movie, it would be nearly

impossible to imagine anyone but Robin Williams in that role.

Figure 8-8 Robin Williams in

Dead Poets Society, directed

by Peter Weir. (Courtesy Buena

Vista/Photofest)

Figure 8-7 George Cukor

directing Katharine Hepburn,

Joan Bennett, Frances Dee,

and Jean Parker in Little

Women. (Courtesy MGM/

Photofest)

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