Splash 1984 ( The Mermaid Movie) was always one of my favorite movies.
I watched it the other day. I was on imdb Internet Movie Data Base looking it up. In the trivia section this is what it said:
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Lisa Whelchel , due to her huge popularity as Blair from the Facts of Life (1979) was also considered for Madison .

The role went to Daryl Hannah. Could you imagine Lisa playing Madison?
I never knew this. I wonder if she would have done it.

I can picture her having been pretty good in that role. In any event, the thing that I most associate that movie with is the fact that, when it first came out, my Hebrew school teacher was interested in seeing it.

Woah!!! That would have been so amazing!!! Lisa as the Mermaid in Splash!!

I could see that happening! I wonder what else she had been considered for.

I can't imagine Lisa taking that role. Darryl Hannah's role was very sexy, there's a lot of swearing, and Lisa boycotted even the episode of FOL where Natalie had pre-marital sex. It would never have worked.