Beacon Hill
The Test
S1 • E10 Oct 28, 1975 60m
Movie buffs will get a special charge out of the best scene of the hour, when sappy dilettante Fawn get a choice opportunity to make a film test for a bit part in a D. W. Griffith movie. While arrogantly belittling cameraman Billy Bitzer's directions, she is magically interrupted by the great man himself who gives her a showstopping pointer or two. Roberts Blossom is particularly effective as Griffith, in an hour that also wakes brother Rob out of his alcoholic torpor on meeting a bright, sophisticated woman.
