Post 5-Studios & Stars

The old Hollywood Studio system was set up to where the whole movie-making process was in one place. This made it very convenient for everyone involved from the directors, to producers, and to the cast and crews. One important factor of the Studio System was the star system. This was the system that had certain actors always reperesenting the same studio. The actors/actresses who did this were usually "discovered" by the studio they represented and tended to asssociate with a specific genre. An example would be Humphrey Bogart. He was always depicted as the handsome,detective/war hero who always saved the day and lived up to this role most of his career. Eventually people began to watch movies just because he was in them which is what the star system inteded for, which is to have a certain famous actor/actress give them publicity and make their studio look well represented.