Hollywood star system

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The Hollywood star system was a studio-driven method of creating, promoting, and tightly controlling movie actors’ public images to turn them into marketable celebrities during the classical era of American cinema.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf celebrity manufacturing system
film industry practice
marketing strategy
publicity system
aim to build audience loyalty to stars
to create marketable film celebrities
to differentiate studios through exclusive stars
to increase box office revenues
basedOn studio control over production distribution and exhibition
countryOfOrigin United States
declinedDueTo legal challenges to studio control
rise of independent production
weakening of long-term studio contracts
declinePeriod 1950s
late 1940s
developedBy Hollywood film studios
linked to: Hollywood studios

major film studios
studio moguls
hasKeyFeature carefully managed publicity campaigns
control over actors private lives
image makeovers for actors
long-term studio contracts for actors
manufacturing of star personas
name changes for actors
orchestration of studio-arranged romances and marriages
suppression of scandals
tight control over actors public images
typecasting of actors into specific screen personas
use of fan magazines for promotion
industry Hollywood film industry
linked to: Hollywood
influenced contemporary film marketing
modern celebrity culture
public relations practices in entertainment
involves gossip columnists
press agents
publicists
studio photographers
talent scouts
mainPeriodOfUse 1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
practicedBy 20th Century Fox
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Paramount Pictures
RKO Radio Pictures
Warner Bros.
relatedConcept celebrity culture
star studies in film theory
studio system
usedIn classical Hollywood cinema

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Heinrich Blanke notableCollaboration Hollywood studio system
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Paramount Pictures costume department associatedWithStudioSystem Hollywood studio system
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Julia Jean Turner memberOf Hollywood studio system
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Stanley Shriner Hoff setting Hollywood studio system
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Harold Greene partOf classic Hollywood studio system
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Robert Boyle areaOfInfluence Hollywood studio system
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Roth/Kirschenbaum Films operatesInSector Hollywood studio system
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Georgia Lorrison associatedWithTheme Hollywood studio system
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Hollywoo targetAudienceOfSatire Hollywood system
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