It is a scorching August day in 1946 on the 20th Century Fox studio complex in Hollywood.

A nervous 20 year old model is led by an assistant through the blur of trucks, props and purposeful

technicians.

She follows her guide into a building and soon she arrives at the soundstage with its

high ceilings and insulated walls.

Distinguished looking man in his 40s, the Crete Sir, it's Ben Lyon, the studio's head

of talent.

Lyon has high hopes for today's screen test.

You can never be sure until the camera rolls, but his record for spotting star quality is

well known in LA.

He even signed the young Jean Hollow.

But already things are going wrong.

The cameraman Leon Shamroy demands his model remove the thick make-up that'll look dreadful

on film.

But when she washes her face clean, she breaks out in red blotches.

She sweats from the heat and maybe nerves.

As the wardrobe mistress holds up costumes from a rail of clothes, working out what will

flatter her voluptuous figure.

It all feels a bit chaotic and Lyon worries he has made a mistake.

Only last year this girl was spray painting aircraft parts on a wartime production line.

She was spotted by a photographer and now scrapes a living in LA posing for pin-up photos.

As he prepares his camera, Shamroy puffs on his cigar and raises an eyebrow at Lyon.

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