Lois Smith, 86 has had six decades of acting history and she has a new movie at Sundance called Marjorie Prime. But we were delighted to hear that she also has a 60 year old video on YouTube of her and James Dean doing a screen test for East of Eden. It’s a silent video and James and Lois are evidently being told by someone off-screen to turn around, get closer etc, but it’s still fascinating. In her new movie at Sundance, Lois plays a widow with a failing memory and her family arranges to have a hologram of her beloved late husband (as he was 40 years ago) played by Jon Hamm, keep her company.
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Wow. She looks a little like Liv Tyler in that vid. And what a career: she is one of our favorite parts of “Minority Report.”
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this is her excuse for living in a Mobil Home?
I was hoping that was her studio on location dressing trailer. Maybe I’m wrong.
Did Janet go to school with her?