One of the greatest American actresses ever. Painfully underrated.

@slydoll7877

6 жыл бұрын

Born too soon....had she been acting now, it would have been different.

@paulaharrisbaca4851

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting mannerisms. I liked her in "Up the Down Staircase" and I think she played the teacher in "Carrie", or maybe she was the teacher in Bob Balaban's weird film "Parents" about a typical Baby Boom era suburban family, "Leave it to Beaver" style, and their one son who suspects his parents are cannibals. They were definitely odd. Sexual and obsessed with eating meat, a mysterious meat.... one that was...anyway, she's 20 years older but still an interesting performance.

@bestdisco1979

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely,,she had such presence. Love her.

@ivancervi1825

2 жыл бұрын

Non so..e' l'attrice piu' indecifrabile della storia del cinema♥️

@rindanefikirleriolan1flano664

Жыл бұрын

@@ivancervi1825 She was so talented

Her ability to act changing emotion after emotion is of stellar quality and seamless. Truly one of the greatest actresses of all time!

In six days, it will have been 18 years since Sandy passed away. She was one of the most talented -- and certainly THE most original -- actress that I know of.

@destineydevereux4722

Жыл бұрын

Now it's 31 years and I still love her movies,, we studied her in my acting class,, she definitely was one of a kind❤

One of the best screen tests I’ve ever seen. She deserves an Oscar just for this test. No one will ever duplicate Honey as this good again

@superhetoric

2 жыл бұрын

wholeheartedly agree

Sandy, was terrific in this role. A well deserved Oscar performance. Gone too soon.

I think Sandy was a wonderful actress. She was brilliant in the screen test.

@paulaharrisbaca4851

2 жыл бұрын

Attractive too. The lighting and the set looks like it was from a Doris Day-Rock Hudson type film. I wonder how Roddy McDowall would've been in the Segal part. Not as smarmy but probably just as smug. Wexler was an excellent set designer, I am assuming he's the Wexler referred to in the shot labels.

Sandy Dennis and Geraldine Page, the quirkiest two actresses ever -- but both were GREAT; you could never look away when either was on screen. Alas Sandy died too soon. 1/2018

She was brilliant in this film. Head-to-head with Elizabeth Taylor? Insane

God I loved her acting. Sandy Dennis is just as fascinating doing this "dance like the wind" scene here as she was in the movie. Different interpretations but both in the same character.

Sandy Dennis was an outstanding actress! She did an incredible job with this character. I have always enjoyed her movies. This is an all time favorite of mine too!

@bratton79

5 жыл бұрын

She's was cute as a button, too. I loved her performance in this film.

She was wonderful and to this day is missed by me.

@sundevilification

8 жыл бұрын

+Denise Spurlock Amen, sir.

@cameronreilly5510

7 жыл бұрын

I love Sandy Dennis. She is my most treasured actress. I miss her originality and presence. WAVW and everything that Sandy is in are my favorites. I wish she was still here with us. I would love to meet her.

haven't you read the original play? Her character, Honey was supposed to be a frail, meek, silly, dumb and kind of an airhead type of character. Sandy Dennis did more than just play the role okay. She made Honey really come into life with all of those stutters and tics and eccentric behavior on screen. Man, do some actual reading and research before downplaying on someone's ability. p.s she also won the best supporting actress oscar for the role

@NewsHistorian

3 жыл бұрын

Sandy Dennis brought all those all of those stutters and tics and eccentric behaviors to every character she played because that was her.

@jacobskinner3522

3 жыл бұрын

@@NewsHistorian to paraphrase Mike Nichols, Honey required a comedic actress who could annoy the audience without alienating them, so they feel protective of her when she is attacked. Mission accomplished, I’d say. Regardless of whether or not Sandy did similar things in other performances, she was perfect for this role and nailed it.

@mikkel2946

2 жыл бұрын

Well, if you read Callahan he talks about her “demented vocal hesitations”. On full display here, I’d say.

I liked her in the movie Up the down staircase.... about a high school teacher in the inner city!

@CathyC454

6 жыл бұрын

Gattopardo Di Lampeduza I read that book many times and loved it, so I had expectations for the movie...and Sandy Dennis was perfect for the part!

@jsteed44

4 жыл бұрын

Just finished watching this movie was blown away by everyone's performance Dennis is was amazing loved her in out of towners and wolf pretty too

Shes was really great. See her in Woody Allen's "Another Woman". She has a small but powerful role, and really gives a great performance.

@Mansfield0433

6 жыл бұрын

thenaturalboxer I will . I never knew she appeared in a Woody Allen movie.

@peterd.6579

6 жыл бұрын

You should have been the actress.

@rk100364

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, HEY... look at me once in a while. Im your wife, not her.

Unique and original actress . They unfortunately don't make them like Sandy anymore.. Hollywood sucks

I’m embarrassed to say I’m not too familiar with her works. I searched her name to see what else she’s done out of curiosity because The Out of Towners was one of my favorite movies growing up. I’d just watched it online after searching everywhere for it. By these scenes alone, it’s obvious she was a brilliant actress. Looks like I have some movies I need to catch up on. What a great surprise!

uh, this is a BIG deal that we can all see this. thank you so, so much.

I love this. "I dance like the wind." She was really awesome. Really. Gosh. It's magic true.** * *

Thank you for posting this! This is brilliant.Sandy was a wonderful actress. I have the same manager as she did, who was also her friend. He gave me her beautiful orange calcite ball that she owned and loved because I thought she was great. It means a lot to me.

The sense of vulnerability is even more marked seeing her act her scenes in a void.

Riveting performance. She was amazing in WAVW but she is amazing in the screen test too.

@teeniebeenie8774

7 жыл бұрын

STOLE EVERY SCENE SHE IN AMAZING LADY

I'm glad Sandy delievered her lines with more mousiness, volume and enthusiasm in the movie. I never knew someone could throw up like that. Lo!

Brilliant actress

No wonder she got the part.

One of those gifted talents that can transmit any range of emotions without saying a word. Mesmerizing.

Always liked Sandy Dennis. I've worked as an actor, and feel I'm a good actor, but always was hit and miss in auditions. In this screen test, Dennis nailed it. She didn't miss a moment

I absolutely adored the beautiful movie she and Anthony Newley were in SWEET NOVEMBER🎷

I love Sandy Dennis,,a truly brilliant actress.

I love Sandy Dennis. She was definitely the best thing about this movie for me.

Love her in this and The Out of Towners

absolutely amazing in Virginia Woolf

Absolutely fantastic actress.

Very interesting. Being one of my favorite movies and practically knowing the play line for line, I'd love to see George Segal's screen test for this. I think Roddy was testing for the part too, rather than just helping out with the lines. Liz and Burton of course had the part before the ink was dry on Mike Nichols' contract.

When she played one of Natalie Wood's high school girlfriends in the movie Splendor in the Grass, her unique fragile quality and screen presence jumped out at me even then.

Wonderful actress. One of the best.

Such a unique and hugely gifted actress. Fascinating to see this footage.

One of greatest actress

She's AMAZING!

She was brilliant,.💜

Wow, two acting giants: Sandy Dennis and Roddy McDowell

I just think it’s interesting this was shot widescreen with anamorphic lenses while the actual movie was done with spherical lenses. I wonder if this is also Haskell Wexler’s work? It beautiful, def taking some screen grabs of this for a project I wanna do lol

wow, she's really good. This was really interesting.

So they were screen-testing Roddy McDowall for the part of Nick? I didn't know that. It's hard to visualize anyone except the original cast doing this. I think Virginia Woolfe is one of those icons that will never be remade because some movies just cannot be redone successfully. Most people who love this play don't just watch the film they osmosize it; I know I do. I know every line and nuance of it so it's a rare treat to see the screen tests. Wish we had George Segal's. Of course Burton and Taylor were never tested. The parts were theirs from the get-go.

@DTD110865

5 жыл бұрын

Melinda Dillon was also one of the actresses who was screen-tested for Honey.

@funboy7979

4 жыл бұрын

@@DTD110865 melinda dillon originated the role on broadway. edward albee was not a fan of the film. there have been four broadway revivals since the original production, all successful, and a fifth on the way . . . great plays attract great actors and great directors forever . . .

@jacobskinner3522

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know if Segal ever screen-tested. Dennis was the only one of the cast Nichols didn’t know personally, whereas he’d worked with Segal on stage a time or two. Also, I don’t think McDowell was actually testing. He’s clearly just there to support Dennis, and I imagine did it as a favor to Elizabeth Taylor; they were good friends.

I would have loved loved to have lived Roddy McDowall's life.

. . ., even w/o seeing him in the first few seconds you know it's Roddy with his "I don't...," he imprints his image in his voice. I can see how they paired his repression with her need for expression. An all to common fatal attraction.

Connie Stevens, who was under contract to Warner Bros. at the time, enthusiastically lobbied for this part. A perverse part of me wants to see her try it : o

She's brilliant. I didn't notice before because I was focussed on Burton and Taylor, but she is brilliant.

thanks, i miss her

I have such a crush on her it’s ridiculous,I collect all her movies up the down staircase and That Cold Day in the Park are two of my faves. Edit ,she left us too soon .

I recall sandy in splendor in the grass.

"TheFox" and "Up the Down Staircase" ! !

@reubensane5539

Жыл бұрын

Yes!!! And That Cold Day in the Park.

BEST ACTRESS OF EM ALL

violence!! violence!!

I saw this movie as a young student in the mid 60s. Sandy made me feel so irritated and uncomfortable. I later realized why. I learned to love and respect he. Then she was gone. I was so disappointed to learn of her death. I wish I could have known her when we both were in our early years and later.

but, she won two tonys and an oscar, and worked steadily from age 19 through to the end of her life -- and with top artists in her profession -- how can that be interpreted as "underrated" -- let alone "painfully underrated"?

@jacobskinner3522

3 жыл бұрын

Being awarded doesn’t necessarily preclude an actor from being underrated. Dianne Wiest has two Oscars and two Emmys but still struggles to find roles and is hardly a household name.

@QuadMochaMatti

2 жыл бұрын

She was certainly greatly underappreciated by many in America. The mainstream truly is the lame stream.

@karllieck9064

Жыл бұрын

The word, "underrated" is real popular in today's culture. It will pass. Pay no mind to the people who overuse the word.

I never knew Roddy McDowell was considered for the role of Nick. I knew Robert Redford was.

@plasticweapon

2 жыл бұрын

they might have just brought him in to do the screen test.

Beethoven's 7th, 2nd. mvt. ... A favorite of mine. Sandy rules of course.

I find her more effective here in the screen test than she was in the film. I find that in the film she comes off as mannered and finally inconsequential. here she has a kind of centered seriousness, -a gravitas, if you will, that was badly needed in her characterization in the film.

@felixcat4346

5 жыл бұрын

She may have been kept out of the loop, after all it was a Taylor-Burton vehicle.

@karllieck9064

Жыл бұрын

Wrong. She was better in the film. Remember she was up against Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. If she had played her role as she did in the screen tests, she would have been swallowed up alive in the movie and forgotten. Anyway, she did have some very subtle moments, particularly at the beginning of the movie. She definitely had a wide range of acting chops.

@briananderson8428

11 ай бұрын

@@karllieck9064 Exactly. She would have drowned in the Burton-Taylor intensity had she played the somewhat demure character in these screen tests. The finished film is spectacular.

Captivating.

Interesting that Roddy McDowall worked with her on the screen test. He was one of Elizabeth Taylor's best friends.

the man in the test with Ms. Dennis is, indeed, Roddy McDowell. George Segal played the role in the released film.

The screen test looks BETTER than the movie...that's why one of the MOST important people on the set is the Cinematographer... quality lenser!!

It must have been very stressful to screen test this, knowing full well that getting the part depended upon this test. I loved the movie.

@ Victor Talking Machine, Oh yes. I could swear these whole scenes were completely re-written.

Her interpretive changes are very interesting. Some things can be done in many different ways. How one reads a line can make all the difference in the world.

One of a kind.

Where did you get the footage from? That is the Director prompting her in the back or the opposing actor. That wheel counter at the start is a trip at 2 seconds

Yeah shes got some chops

talent that is all

@YourJellyFishAteMyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Hello 9 years..

I think that's Roddy McDowell isnt it?

i think had she lived a bit longer, she'd have been rediscovered and celebrated... like what occurred with Ellen Burstyn.

Fanastic

bells...bells!!

Why is this screen test so different from what ended up in the movie? Does anyone know? Thanks.

Anybody know the piece of music she dances too is it Tchaikovsky ? I love that music

@postmodernrecycler

3 жыл бұрын

It's Beethoven, symphony no. 7, second movement, the allegretto. But I also had a flash of Russian from it--though Tchaikovsky superceded all the other Russian composers.

Connie Stevens a big star at Warner brithers wanted to test for this part but the producer and director refused to allow Connie to test. Connie had a petition of many supporting her request. I think connie should have been given the chance to test. Years later mike Nichols directed postcards from the edge guess whose mansion Columbia rented? Yep Connie Stevens!

She was sexy to in her own way. Excellent in The out of Towners with Jack Lemon. That's Roddy McDowall in the scene with her

Does anybody know which other actresses were considered for this role?

@garyonbroadway1919

3 жыл бұрын

Pamela Tifflin was the only other actress who read for the part. Connie Stevens BEGGED Warner, but to no avail. Melinda Dillon (Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, A Christmas Story), who created Honey in the Broadway stage version, wasn't asked to read. After this screen test and Elizabeth Taylor's approval, she was cast. Robert Redford turned down Nick (WHY?!) Jack Lemmon accepted the role of George and recanted the next day. Burton thought he wasn't suitable for the part and only saw it as Liz's second Oscar. She talked him into it (and $750,000.) Lehmann and Albee both wanted Bette Davis and James Mason but knew they needed box-office power. Only Ms. Taylor had extensive film work on her resume, and all three said they learned a career's worth of screen acting just watching her. Taylor asked Dennis if she was intimidated by her, and Sandy replied, "No, not at all. I'm HONORED, but should I be wary of you?" Richard Burton said, "Only if you annoy her." They all burst out laughing, and Mike Nichols (in his film directing DEBUT!) said it was a once-in-a-lifetime dream come true. Technically, he was paranoid that everything, the lighting, stage, make-up, wardrobe, was wrong. But the cast was "beyond perfection." Burton said Nichols was a passive-aggressive genius, discouraging what he DID want to provoke them into doing just that. Taylor said no director conveyed what he wanted in so few words. The only thing he demanded was EXACT adherence to the script, no improvisation. Segal made Burton jealous, prompting Taylor to say, "We'll that settles THAT!" Their dancing scene allegedly made everyone uncomfortable because (as the film clearly shows) they ground right into one another physically, oblivious to the crew and cast watching. Burton's "It's a familiar dance; they both know it well" is particularly pointed. He later said that his cruel game of "Get The Guests" was much nastier than he intended for that reason. And when he chokes Martha, he admitted he went overboard. Taylor was stunned that he was actually strangling her. "Murderer" was in the script, but there was no cut; she stayed in character, stunned. Nichols later said that when Martha declared "TOTAL war," he feared she'd gun Burton him down with the car. I believe it!

I wonder why Roddy McDowell is in these tests but not in the final movie ?

Was Roddy McDowell being considered for the role of Nick in the film? I just don't think that would have worked well. Although McDowell had done some dramatic parts in films he was known primarily as a character actor and for his work in satirical comedies such as The Loved One and Lord Love a Duck.

Is that Roddy MacDowell?

Honey is crazier than Martha . George would def have left this one !Amazing what she does.She makes it out there way out there but believable .Childish but totally A woman. This is how we feel sorry for her she is not forceful like Taylor's Martha and thats why we care more for Martha !

Although Roddy McDowall gives a very good screen test and delivers his lines convincingly, he would have been woefully miscast. He simply did not have the strong sexuality the part demanded; it is essential to the play that Honey and her husband contrast one another. Honey is plain looking while her husband is a bit of an Adonis.

@gattopardodilampeduza3211

6 жыл бұрын

Zoltan Korda well you know Roddy was a closeted Homosexual!

@citizen1163

3 жыл бұрын

George Segal was perfect.

was that roddy mcdowell as nick ?!?

This woman was such an amazing actress. I never got tired of watching her, she made her characters so intriguing. She never looked like she was acting, her concentration and her focus always appeared so real. It's fascinating how the finished film is so completely different than these tests, especially the tone... the pacing is so much slower.

Roddy McDowell?

is that Roddy?

roddy mcdowall is NOT nick, its George Segal just some correct info

Roddy as Nick playing Beethoven's 7th. Sandy is a bit too over the top here.

Nobody does drunk like she

This is simply astonishing... (and it's McDowall.. not McDowell).

More subtle here than in the movie. Nichols tilted her toward caricature.

@henryjackson2357

5 жыл бұрын

Gary Morris No, it's just that her characterization is fleshed out in the context of the movie which couldn't be that subtle.

Sandy , Must Be About 22 or 23 years old , in this movie .

@ChrisHansonCanada

3 жыл бұрын

She would have been 29 in 1966.

how the fuck did you find this? Thank you xxx

The movie was exhausting to watch

Elizabeth Ashley would have been good!

This is probably the best film adaptation of an American play (or, 1962's "Long Day's Journey Into Night"). Taylor, Burton and Segal's performances are excellent. Dennis's performance stands out, but not in a good way. She's entertaining but her acting is riddled with tics and stutters and in much contrast to her co-stars' naturalism and deeper understanding of their characters

the out of towners......I can vouch for that....

@CathyC454

6 жыл бұрын

Pauly69s omg, the first time I saw The Out of Towers it was on TV; I was a teenager, watching with mymparents. We laughed until we were crying. Jack Lemon was my Dad's favorite actor. Great movie, and great acting by both of them.