Before They Were Stars

Marlon Brando's screen test (1947)

 

Robert De Niro car commercial (1970)

An interesting example of pre-Godfather, pre-Mean Streets "mook" culture, at a time when it was seldom seen in the media

 

For both people who somehow have never seen it:

 

Jack Lemmon in an army training film about soldiers on leave (1950)

 

Bruce Lee screen test (1965)

 

Andy Kaufman recites Edgar Lee Masters' poem "Spoon River Anthology" (1969)

 

Michelle Pfeiffer in Delta House (1979)

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James Dean Pepsi commercial (1950):

 

Harrison Ford in The Virginian (1966)

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Tom Selleck woos Farrah Fawcett in a 1972 Dubonnet commercial

 

17 year old Charlton Heston in Peer Gynt (1941)

 

I forgot all about Delta House. I watched it when it was on.

 

Chevy Chase

 

Regarding Bruce Lee, fast.. so very fast. At the end of the video, he does some moves, it's just awesome to see his real speed. There is another part of this video on the net somewhere with more moves. My understanding is that Lee purposely had to slow his fighting down for the camera to catch it on film.

 

Back in the 80s, I read an article about this in a martial arts magazine. Apparently, they would speed up the film rate (which makes the the action look slower onscreen). Dude was too fast for the cameras!

 

Steve McQueen in a Western Electric short film about telephone use in a typical American home (1952)

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Note how blindingly blond his hair his. Like James Arness, he would later darken his hair after being cast in a TV western.

 

This would be interesting but every picture is showing up for me as a cartoon piece of paper with a frowny-face and a folded corner.. is that just me?

 

Are you accessing this from work? I know my work's IT bans certain sites, so reading this forum is always hit-or-miss when it comes to embedded attachments (like anything from discogs).

 

Dick Van Dyke hosting CBS Cartoon Theater (1956)

 

Lea Thompson in MysteryDisc: Murder Anyone? (a mystery game released on laserdisc). According to Wikipedia this was her debut.

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Ali MacGraw in a Polaroid commercial (1965):



According to one of the comments, that's Barry Manilow singing the jingle

 

A pre-Monkees Davy Jones on "Farmer's Daughter":

 

Micky Dolenz, under his stage name Braddock, in a cereal commercial pre-Circus Boy and ten years prior to The Monkees.

 

damn, brando killed it.