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n. a filmed audition to test the screen-acting ability of a potential actor
WordNet
n. a filmed audition of an actor or actress
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Screen Test is a United Kingdom children's quiz show about films, broadcast from 18 November 1970 to 20 December 1984 on BBC1. It was first hosted by Michael Rodd, who was succeeded by Brian Trueman and Mark Curry.
Screen test may refer to:
- Screen test, the practice or evaluation of actors, make-up, and lighting in film
- Screen Test (film), a 1937 short Australian documentary directed by Charles Chauvel
- Rough ride (police brutality), also called a screen test, in which an unrestrained prisoner is thrown about an erratically-driven police vehicle
- Screen Tests, a series of "living portrait" films created by Andy Warhol
- Screen Test, a BBC television series
- Don Adams' Screen Test, an American game show that aired during 1975-76
Screen Test is a 1937 short Australian documentary directed by Charles Chauvel about how screen tests are conducted.
Brisbane girl Betty Pike features in the movie and was signed to Charles Chauvel. When the film was released, Chauvel held a screen test competition to promote it.
Usage examples of "screen test".
The woman, yet another of the pimp's highpriced hookers with a photo in her police file, had been a dish, worthy of a Hollywood screen test, and certainly pretty enough for a Playboy centerfold.
The woman, yet another of the pimp's high-priced hookers with a photo in her police file, had been a dish, worthy of a Hollywood screen test, and certainly pretty enough for a Playboy centerfold.
Afterward we'll give you a screen test and see how convincing your repentance is.
Belbo sat down and looked at the scene with an impenetrable face, like a producer watching a screen test.
Contino, tell me, do you think she'd consent to a nude screen test?
He told the girl he'd give her a screen test in the morning, when he got back from a poker session at his club.