The Hollywood Screen Test is a time-honored tradition in Hollywood. We all have hear stories about young Hollywood stars and starlets getting their big break with a screen test for MGM or Warner Brothers.
As an example, here is a very rare early screen test of Marlin Brando for the movie Rebel Without A Cause. I believe the actress is Tallulah Bankhead. Notice that the first slate shows that Brando had three years experience as a stage actor at the time of this screen test. Brando didn’t get the part, but he did go on to an amazing Hollywood movie career and became one of the greatest actors of the 20th century.
Original Screen Test Footage
Well one of our contributors is a retired cameraman from Hollywood or maybe it is Beverly Hills. It turns out that he has a bunch of screen test footage sitting in his closet. So we convinced him to get some of it uploaded to youtube.
So we are introducing this new section called: Hollywood Screen Test where we will be showing original screen tests video clips.
We’ll also be presenting screen tests of famous actors like the Marlin Brando clip.
