Audrey Hepburn’s First Screen Test, 1950’s - Film 1296

Audrey Hepburn’s first screen test followed by the same scene in the film ’Secret People’. She is young, thin, beautiful, innocent and beguiling, and very energetic. A man (in shadow) holds up a clipboard, showing the following information: Ealing Studios Ltd, Screentest for Audrey Hepburn, Director Thorold Dickinson, , Scene 31, Take 3; he clicks shut the top of the board, which he then removes from shot to reveal a young man and woman, standing in a sitting room, embracing one another as they talk; they look lovingly into each other’s faces. In the same room, the couple stand with their backs to the camera and slightly apart from one another; the camera looks between them into the room; a very young and thin Audrey Hepburn is standing by the door of the room, beaming; she runs over to the couple (and towards the camera); she has a fringe and long hair tied back in a pony tail; she wears a flowery skirt and a low scoop neck black t-shirt; she excitedly, and somewhat nervou