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Hollywood Screen Tests, Take 1 |
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It's the equivalent of documentary fast food, but there's something irresistible about these long-shelved scraps of Hollywood history. Sometimes formal, sometimes loose, these screen tests show a batch of actors as you've never seen them--i.e., nervous, hesitant, but often flashing the X factor that separates them from the other would-be stars. Check out the 1958-model Sean Connery, or Mia Farrow auditioning for the role of Liesl in The Sound of Music (her warbling on "I Am Sixteen" suggests one reason she didn't get the role). Newcomer Ann-Margret needs no vocal help; knocking out a couple of songs, she looks about as inexperienced as Helen Hayes. Cultists will zip to Patty Duke's test for her role in Valley of the Dolls, and there's a long section devoted to the '60s Batman TV series. Lyle Waggoner as the Caped Crusader? Ah, how different screen history might have been. --Robert Horton
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