Madonna // "FAME" 1982 AUDITION Early Footage

She was considered an underground hit in the clubs at the time, not well known countrywide yet.

[quote]How does the lady interviewing her, not know who she is?

She wasn't seen - only heard in clubs at that time OP. People didn't know who she was and Sire deliberately didn't put her face on her single covers because a lot of people thought she was Black. "Everybody" was her first music video in 1982.

Her audition was terrible.

Poor Madonna really can't act.

Good lord, the woman couldn't act then and she never learned how, did she?

That was embarrassing to watch, at R3.

She also wasn’t 21 in 1982

She looked great with short hair. She should try it again.

I miss the chic short hairstyles of the 80s.

I believe Melissa Etheridge also auditioned for Fame.

Her fucking teeth? OMG what the hell did I just see?

As Patti LuPone says Madge “is a movie killer.” She really has zero charisma on camera.

[quote] She really has zero charisma on camera.

Or in real life.

Now you know why she's single.

She's mean and nasty, AND she has no charisma.

She looked great with short hair, the best was when she dyed it platinum.

She is, was, and has always been a horrible actor.

I would've been on that like white on rice, damn. A saving grace she can't act her way out of a paper bag because it allowed her to concentrate on her music and dancing career.

You can tell she's lying when she says she's 21. Still, at 24 she could have passed for a high school student. I wonder if Stockard said she was 21 at her "Grease" audition....

This was in the summer of 1982. Madonna's first single, "Everybody," was released in October 1982.

But god damn those teeth. They are disgusting? Like chicklets with a grey matting.

They needed someone with star power.

She has dead eyes. That's a problem for a film actor.

She has a unique look. She would have been good in Fame.

She definitely did not appear to have “it” here.

Is this pre nosejob?

I thought she was ok in that rehearsal scene. Better actor then than she is now.

What was with the Brooke Shields comment and weird face?

R24 Was that a face Brooke made in the “nothing comes between me & my Calvins” ad? I really don’t want to check.

What the hell was going on with her teeth?

She looked dykey.

1982 must've been a big year for dykey looks because Whitney looked the same.

R27 Well, Whitney WAS a dyke.

It's just the light R26. Madonna had pretty good teeth.

R29 Definitely not the light. Take a look at that video.

Looks like she was in the middle of getting new caps. In the days before implants and veneers people had capped teeth.

Do you think her teeth all fell out and then she put them back in afterwards and that no-one in the history of scrutinizing Madonna has ever noticed that she had no teeth when she was in her twenties - just you R30?

I don’t think she was “bad”, it was a little stiff and unlived in as filmed auditions are but there was genuine personality and character in what she was giving. She just needed to dial it down for the camera which is something you learn with experience. She still comes of as pretty relaxed a d down to earth and not a conceited control freak I wonder when that kicked in.

I like the teeth. Everything but Miley Cyrus style horse chomper veneers. Back then, only Hollywood ever bleached teeth and it looked very odd to everyone else.

R32 Huh?

She kept stepping on the guy's lines. Not listening.

Of course Madonna can't act, she's only been decent in acting roles when she was playing herself - Desperately Seeking Susan and A League Of Their Own.