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231 ш NOTES EPIGRAPH First published in Photoplay, March 1925, p. 125. INTRODUCTION 1. Beulah Bondi conversation with Anthony Slide, October 23, 1976. 2. Milton Sills in Joseph P. Kennedy, ed., The Story of the Film, p. 177. 3. John Scott,“Hindu Caste System Has Parallel among Actors,” p. B13. 4. Michelle Morgan contract dated July 29, 1942; Passage to Marseilles picture file in Warner Bros.Archives at University of Southern California. 5. Amy S. Jennings,“An Extra in Hollywood,” p. 653. 6. Rob Wagner, Film Folks, p. 211. 7. Fred W. Beetson,“The Operation of a Central Casting Bureau,” pp. 82–83. 8. John Hanlon,“The Town of Types,” p. 73. 9. Jack Lait,“The Hollywood As Iz,” p. 3. 10. Vachel Lindsay, The Art of the Moving Picture, p. 47. 11. Quoted in Rudy Behlmer, America’s Favorite Movies: Behind the Scenes, p. 80. 12. This story has been told many times with slightly different dialogue.As far as I can ascertain, the earliest report appears in the September 15, 1940, issue of the Chicago Sunday Tribune. The extra may have called DeMille something other, and worse, than a baboon, and DeMille’s response may have been simply a one-word command:“Lunch.” 13. “Cleopatra’s Director,” p. X2. 14. Myrtle Gebhart,“Why One Hundred Thousand Failed,” p. 61. 15. Margaret Reid,“Looking On with an Extra Girl,” Picture-Play,April 1925, p. 98. 16. Pauline Wagner interview with Anthony Slide, February 16, 2010. 17. Kevin Thomas to Anthony Slide, May 12, 2011. 18. Nathan S. Dyches,“Hollywood’s‘Four Hundred,’” p. 38. 19. “Another Work Army—It’s in Hollywood,” p. 1. 20. In fact, based on a report that the stuntmen working on Gunga Din on location at Lone Pine earned a total of $85,353.97, the figure is probably correct. The price paid was deserved in that “RKO Radio Pictures gained a group of persons who knew how to do their work well,” Bulletin of the Screen Actors Guild, November 1938, p. 5. 21. Quoted in Heidi Kanaga,“Making the ‘Studio Girl’: The Hollywood Studio Club and Industry Regulation of Female Labour,” p. 134. However, in contradiction, Motion 232 / N O T E S Picture Magazine in 1917 claimed that “Sex relationships may be regarded with less prurient curiosity and intolerance than distinguish those employed in less aesthetic occupations, but in no other vocation is clean living more necessary to secure, much less to keep work.” H. Sheridan Bickers,“Extra Ladies and Gentlemen,” p. 80. 22. Corinne Lowe,“The Hope That Springs,” p. 39. 23. Otis Ferguson,“Hollywood Footnote,” p. 670. 24. H. Sheridan-Bickers,“Extra Ladies and Gentlemen,” p. 85. 25. Joseph Henabery, Before, In and After Hollywood, p. 123. 26. “Former Extras Graduate,” p. 61. 27. “Real Mertons of Movies a Problem at Hollywood,” p. XX9. 28. Bennie Zeidman,“The Extra Girl,” p. 45. 29. Georges Sadoul,“Louis Lumière: The Last Interview,” Sight and Sound, Summer 1948, pp. 68–70. 30. Helen G. Smith,“The Extra Girl Is Handed a Few Snickers,” p. 108. CHAPTER 1 1. The“supers” were also at times designated “thinking parts,” in which actors were not required to speak, but presumably needed to think what they were doing. 2. H. Sheridan-Bickers,“Extra Ladies and Gentlemen,” Motion Picture Magazine, September 1917, p. 80. 3. Corinne Low,“The Hope That Springs,” p. 112. 4. Information from Harry Carr,“Wild Extras I Have Known.” 5. “Movie ‘Extras’Whose Lives Rival Screen Romance,” p. 69. 6. Information from Helen Carlisle,“Odd Folks of Hollywood.” 7. H. Sheridan-Bickers,“Extra Ladies and Gentlemen,” Motion Picture Magazine, September 1917, p. 81. 8. Helen Carlisle,“Odd Folks of Hollywood,” p. 30. 9. H. Sheridan-Bickers,“Extra Ladies and Gentlemen,” Motion Picture Magazine,August 1917, p.95. 10. Thomas H. Ince,“The Type Actor,” p. 234. 11. Rob Wagner, Film Folks, p. 214. 12. Ibid. 13. Ibid, p. 235. 14. Ibid, p. 236. 15. For more information, see Ted Breton,“Mobilizing an Army for Moving Pictures.” 16. Katharine Anne Porter telephone conversation with Anthony Slide, September 29, 1975. 17. Horace A. Fuld,“The Fakes and Frauds in Motion Pictures,” p. 112. 18. Rob Wagner,“Supes and Supermen,” p. 33. 19. Joseph E. Henabery, Before, In and After Hollywood, p. 124. 20. “Men Who Refuse to Work Before the Camera in Nude for One Dollar per Day in Hot Sun, Meet, Organize and Pass Resolution,” The Citizen, March 24, 1916, p. II1. 21. Alfred...
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