Christopher Lee
...was offered the role of Sir Stephen.
According to him...
" For once I was monosyllabic.'O',I said? 'No!'"
"I have an appointment with eternity and I don't want to be late"
I thought that was an odd choice , he's most known for the hammer horror films so HIm as sir stephan would/might make 'the story of O' into a horror movie in the minds of most movie audiances. But he did a real good sexy Dominant guy in the movie "the man with the golden gun" and its my opinion thats the movie ...whoever offered him the movie saw and went 'hey this guy might work' and in my opinion christopher lee would have been much better than that weenie they got to play sir stephan in the 76 movie. I still say that was the only bad part in the movie I still remember seeing it in the theater and when sir stephan first was on screen I started busting up laughing.
and pee wee hermon didnt come out till later but in the 76 movie sir stephan is dressed exactly like pee wee hermon ... grey suit and red bowtie ... hahah just thinking of it makes me laugh