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Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film

Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film

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#1Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/7/08 at 9:03pm


Apparently Lesley Ann Warren's Lois was on speed...


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#2re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/7/08 at 9:12pm

What's up with Margots 'Betty Boop' wig?


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Elphaba
#2re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/7/08 at 9:20pm

I liked Anne Archer


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sally1112
#3re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/7/08 at 9:32pm

What about Stockard Channing? I love her, but I don't know. Would this have worked?

RetroBoy
#4re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/7/08 at 9:56pm

Awww...I love Lesley Ann Warren. But yeah, she was hyper in that screen test. She needed to take it down a notch.

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South Fl Marc
#5re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/7/08 at 10:10pm

Margot Kidder was perfect in the movie.

erikaamato
#6re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/7/08 at 10:19pm

That was really cool to see! Thanks so much for posting it, Mr. Midwest!

And I agree with South FL Marc that Margot was ideal in the movie, but I think Anne Archer had a really nice take on the character, too. And WOW, was she gorgeous. (Maybe too gorgeous for Lois?)

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MrMidwest
#7re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/7/08 at 10:32pm

I thought Anne Archer was appealing as well. I think Karen Allen is another person who would've been a good fit in the part.


Stockard gives it a shot


"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter

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spiderdj82
#8re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/7/08 at 10:53pm

This is from the Superman documentary. It's very interesting to look at a "what if" scenario. I agree with South Fl Marc . . . Margo was the perfect fit for the movie.


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Mamie
#9re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/7/08 at 11:08pm

It's interesting that the scene played in the second tape is one that appeared in the second Superman movie. Do you think they held screen tests for Lois after Margot had already played the role in the first movie? That she had to test a second time?

OR - was this scene (and Superman's denouement) originally supposed to be part of the first movie?


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JohnPopa
#10re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/8/08 at 12:13am

I loathe Margot Kidder's piercing bray of a Lois Lane.

Anne Archer would have been much less irritating.

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SueleenGay
#11re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/8/08 at 12:22am

Mamie, originally the two films were to be shot simitaniously, but did not finish part II. The end of part I was actually supposed to be the end of part II. It is a very complicated story, but fascinating in a twisted "Hollywood Biz" sort of way.


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Parks
#12re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/8/08 at 12:52am

That last line just cracked me up. "Well, Peter Pan flew with children, Lois... in a fairy tale."


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#13re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/8/08 at 2:37am

I would have really liked Lesley Ann Warren. I don't know why. I really like the gun shot scene. Was that cut or did it just not make it to the final script?
Updated On: 1/8/08 at 02:37 AM

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best12bars
#14re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/8/08 at 9:06am

I haven't seen these in a while. I'm reminded of how talented Margot Kidder really was.

She and Deborah Raffin are the only two here who actually convince me that they're REPORTERS doing an interview. The others seem to be "playing" at it, at best. Doodling in their notepads and giggling like junior high school girls, with no clue about any of it. They all play "stunned" and "confused" but not "reporters." They forgot who Lois Lane is, and just played her emotions.

At least Margot and Deborah are struggling with doing her job while they interview this "super man."

And Margot is the only one who has many layers to her performance. You can see her thought process shifting from practicality to irrational romance and back again.

Yes, you can "read her mind."


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nygrl23
#15re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/8/08 at 9:12am

I liked Anne Archer, too. Margot and Christopher did have a nice chemistry, though. The question is, whose stomach was growling near the end of Margot's screen test? :)

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Elphaba
#16re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/8/08 at 5:15pm

"Gotcha"........margot was the best...


It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

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geaj
#17re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/8/08 at 9:23pm

Anne Archer never looked better than she did in Fatal Attraction. Drop dead gorgeous!

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spiderdj82
#18re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/8/08 at 11:23pm

The "gun shot" scene was actually the original way that the "reveal" scene was scripted. But, when Donner left, the new director added a new "reveal" scene which I think kind of ruined it. If you watch the SUPERMAN II: DONNER CUT dvd, that screen test is placed back into the movie as it was originally intended.


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cturtle
#19re: Screen Tests for Lois in the '78 Superman film
Posted: 1/9/08 at 10:33pm

these are on the SUPERMAN dvd and fun :) i LOVE the commentary on the dvd... so interesting to hear them talking about, and marveling at, what they could do optically, before computer special effects.


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