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Gerard Malanga:

"Sometime in December, 1963, a couple of months before our move to the 47th Street Factory, I asked Andy to shoot a roll of movie film framed as a 'headshot' composition that I could then replicate as a publicity headshot... After studying the 8 x 10 inch photoprint, which I had chosen from the original footage, Andy and I thought this would be a quick way to continue as a series. The title just came to us, Screen Tests, a homage to a bygone Hollywood era... Many of these portraits were also compiled into other emerging series by Andy, most notably 13 Most Beautiful Boys, 12 Most Beautiful Women and 50 Fantastics." (GMW65)

Although Malanga refers to this film as 12 Most Beautiful Women, it is listed as The Thirteen Most Beautiful Women in most reference books.

In the Stephen Koch Andy Warhol filmography the cast is credited as: Baby Jane Holzer, Anne Buchanan, Sally Kirkland, Barbara Rose, Beverly Grant, Nancy Worthington Fish, Ivy Nicholson, Ethel Scull, Isabel Eberstadt, Jane Wilson, Imu, Marisol, Lucinda Childs and Olga Kluver.

16mm/40mins/BW/silent/16fps. (SG145)

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