Hollywood unknowns
Subtitle: a history of extras, bit players, and stand-ins
By: Anthony Slide
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781617034749; 9781617034756
Subjects: Motion pictures; Extras (Actors); History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The extra in the early silent years; title: The 1920s; title: The Hollywood studio club; title: Central casting; title: The port of missing girls; title: The coming of sound; title: The stand-in; title: Celebrity extras; title: The silent star as extra; title: Ethnic extras; title: The 1940s, unionization, and beyond; title: "Extras, extras, read all about 'em".