Hollywood unknowns [electronic resource] : a history of extras, bit players, and stand-ins / Anthony Slide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slide, Anthony.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Extras (Actors)--United States.

Extras (Actors).

Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their stories are told in Hollywood Unknowns, the first history devoted to extras from the silent era through the present. Hollywood Unknowns discusses the relationship of the extra to the star, the lowly position in which extras were held, the poor working conditions and wages, and the sexual exploitation of many of the hardworking women striving for a place in Hollywood society. Though mainly anonymous, many are identified by name

Contents:

The extra in the early silent years

The 1920's

The Hollywood studio club

Central casting

The port of missing girls

The coming of sound

The stand-in

Celebrity extras

The silent star as extra

Ethnic extras

The 1940's, unionization, and beyond

"Extras, extras, read all about 'em".

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-71608-9

1-62103-703-7

OCLC:

777251346