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CONTENTS Acknowledgments IX Introduction 3 Chapter One The Extra in the Early Silent Years 18 Chapter Two The 1920s 34 Chapter Three The Hollywood Studio Club 52 Chapter Four Central Casting 62 Chapter Five The Port of Missing Girls 82 Chapter Six The Coming of Sound 98 Chapter Seven The Stand-In 117 Chapter Eight Celebrity Extras 141 Chapter Nine The Silent Star as Extra 156 Chapter Ten Ethnic Extras 187 Chapter Eleven The 1940s, Unionization, and Beyond 205 Chapter Twelve “Extras, Extras, Read All about ’Em” 224 Notes 231 Bibliography 244 Index 255 This page intentionally left blank ...

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