1930’s Cinema and the Changing Star

The 1930’s presented a new challenge to Hollywood, sound. This change meant that actors were going to be heard and studios needed new actors. At first they began by calling over actors from the stage and trying to have that actor adapt to a new medium. Unlike cinema stage acting is on a much smaller …

Understanding the Star System Process and Marilyn Monroe

To engage with idea of the Hollywood star system and understand it we must understand it from the beginning up until now. This understanding from the start will help to realize the evolution the system. The star system began with Florence Lawrence, fake death was publicized and staged to be the work of another competing …

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