Screen Tests of Famous Actors

Note Burt Ward reading off the script, and the killer retro logo at the opening. view entry > | edit entry >

The lovely Audrey Tautou's screen test for Amelie. view entry > | edit entry >

Very cool to see Bruce Lee all dressed up in his slender cut suit. His charisma, acuity of mind, and awareness of his performance comes through even in this simple question and answer sequence. Stick… view entry > | edit entry >

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Emmy Rossum's Phantom of the Opera screen test, singing "Think of Me." view entry > | edit entry >

Gilda Radner's original screen test for SNL. You can hear Dan Ackroyd talking to her off screen. Her contagious fun spirit and weird sense of play are obvious, even in the mundane moments of this.… view entry > | edit entry >

This was shot in 1949. view entry > | edit entry >

Guy Williams doing a screen test for the part of John Robinson in Lost in Space. view entry > | edit entry >

Mostly a closeup of James Dean. view entry > | edit entry >

This is a scene with James Dean, Sal Mineo, and Natalie Wood. Good stuff, Sal Mineo rocks. Shot in 1955. view entry > | edit entry >

A very young Lindsay Lohan. view entry > | edit entry >

This is a screen test from a movie that was never made. Shot in 1952. view entry > | edit entry >

No dialogue, just some lovely spinning and posing. This video's embed function is disabled on YouTube, so you'll need to click here to view the clip. view entry > | edit entry >

From 1929, screen test for Blue Angel. view entry > | edit entry >

Marlon Brando, at 23 years old, in a screen test for Rebel Without a Cause, the role of Jim Stark. view entry > | edit entry >

Sam Rockwell dancing and getting pretty wacky in his screen test for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. He has a great gangly dance style, and can kind of do a split, too. view entry > | edit entry >

Sharon Stone's screen test from Basic Instinct. Click here to view the clip on YouTube (embedding is disabled). view entry > | edit entry >