The distinct historical and successful period of Classical Hollywood was 1920s through 1940. Studio system was the one of the key factors to Hollywood’s succeeding. In my opinion, the star system is the one particularly important because stars are the tangible products of immaterial production (film). Many studios discovered young actors and signed contract with them. Studios tried to created personas for each of the actors so that they could be the representation of what genre of the films was and what studio did.
Star system definitely affected the kinds of films the studio made. As I mentioned earlier, an individual star had his or her own characteristic that developed by the studio. Each studio had their own star system and made films based on their stars’ unique personas. In other words, star system in some way determines a film’s genre. One of the examples is Judy Garland, who signed to MGM as a teenager. In many films she played, such as The Wizard of Oz, Garland had a consistent set of character traits which is associated with specific genres.
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