The Star Machine

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

Film historian Jeanine Basinger explains how Hollywood studios manufactured movie stars during their golden age, from the 1930s to the 1950s. The studios found raw talent and shaped it into a product. Basinger shows how the system worked, from screen tests, name changes and publicity to carefully chosen roles. She tells the stories of stars such as Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn and Lana Turner, and of those the machine failed to make, revealing what stardom cost the people behind it.

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