How did the original Louis B Mayer era of Metro Goldwyn Mayer influence the studio system contract models that dominated Hollywood through the nineteen fifties?
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How did the original Louis B Mayer era of Metro Goldwyn Mayer influence the studio system contract models that dominated Hollywood through the nineteen fifties?
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Louis B Mayer MGM contract system long term exclusive contracts star system studio system historyGoogle ↗
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Hollywood studio system contracts option clauses suspension clauses 1930s 1940s actors historyGoogle ↗
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MGM Louis B Mayer studio system contract labor 1950s decline Paramount decree televisionGoogle ↗
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Louis B Mayer MGM contract system long term exclusive contracts star system studio system history Google ↗
Hollywood studio system contracts option clauses suspension clauses 1930s 1940s actors history Google ↗
MGM Louis B Mayer studio system contract labor 1950s decline Paramount decree television Google ↗
- the “option contract” · umsl.edu
- Star System · encyclopedia.com
- Louis B. Mayer | History | Research Starters · ebsco.com
- and elsewhere. In the 1930s and 1940s ‘Hollywood worked actively to make and market its stars. Stars became a vital asset in maintaining the hegemony of the major studios’ (McDonald 2000: 40). Under the Hollywood studio system, actors and stars were thus under contracts that stipulated studio control over most aspects of an actor’s on and off-screen life. As Jane Gaines (1991, 148) has shown, ‘whereas the star wanted some control over self-definition, the studio wanted image insurance’: · open-access.bcu.ac.uk
- Employee in a Cage? Olivia De Havilland, Warner Bros. Pictures, and the ‘Limit Case’ of Star Employment · entsportslawjournal.com
- The Studio System · tcm.com
- Hollywood Works: How Creativity · cambridge.org
- Warner Bros. v. Nelson: A Prelude to the De Havilland Law · digitalcommons.lmu.edu
- How the Hollywood Studio System Fell Apart · history.com
- 483ps$$102 · pages.stern.nyu.edu
- http://doi.org/10.1016/S0733-558X%2805%2923005-7 · mitsloan.mit.edu
- A system gone with the wind · latimes.com
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Louis B Mayer MGM contract system long term exclusive contracts star system studio system history OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
Hollywood studio system contracts option clauses suspension clauses 1930s 1940s actors history OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
MGM Louis B Mayer studio system contract labor 1950s decline Paramount decree television OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Consequence | — | — | 1x of 1 |