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Post by dans on Jul 10, 2023 1:26:36 GMT
Anyone a history of moviemaking buff? I remember that at one time, big movie stars signed exclusive contracts with their studios, but I don't know a lot of the details...
My question is this... Linda Turner (the Black Cat) was a big star. If I wanted to write a multiverse story where in the making of a new movie she costars with another big star who is also a costumed crime fighter, how would I get them in the same movie? They are barely acquainted through Hollywood social life, and each knows a little bit about the other, but they work for different studios and never expected to work together. I guess the two studios might be working together? Did a joint movie like this ever get produced? Maybe one studio has a temporary cash flow problem so they are renting out the service of one of their more expensive stars? Any other thoughts?
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Post by reichsmark on Jul 10, 2023 2:49:47 GMT
Sometimes stars were "lent" to other studios. This was usually done for a fee paid to the lender. Basically renting the star.
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Post by dans on Jul 10, 2023 9:45:16 GMT
Sometimes stars were "lent" to other studios. This was usually done for a fee paid to the lender. Basically renting the star. I thought that might have been the case. Thank you! |
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Post by lawrenceliberty on Jul 10, 2023 18:40:33 GMT
Often, studios would "trade" stars in the sense that MGM would allow "their star" Clark Gable to appear in a Warner Bros movie in return for Warners allowing "their star" Bette Davis to appear in an MGM film.
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Post by dans on Jul 10, 2023 22:56:47 GMT
that would work, too. Thank you!
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Post by redsycorax on Jul 11, 2023 1:33:22 GMT
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Post by dans on Apr 11, 2024 14:11:27 GMT
Who were the first big male movie stars to wear very revealing costumes on screen in the US? Something that movie goes would have seen before around 1945...
I thought I remembered seeing Flash Gordon wearing a swimsuit, boots, and crossed bandoliers and nothing else in one of the serials, but I can't find the image anywhere. The first Tarzan movie was around 1918, so there was an early example, but I want more of a costumed hero-style example than the jungle hero style. Thanks!
Were there ever any serials about John Carter before 1945?
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Post by redsycorax on Apr 11, 2024 22:30:14 GMT
The Motion Picture Production/Hays Code was introduced to self-police movie content after 1930, after the Catholic Legion of Decency formed to pressure the fledgling industry over what it considered 'salacious' content, which included 'suggestive' outfits. The Production Code Administration was formed in 1934 to provide focus for the MPPC to enforce its supervision over cinematic content. "Forbidden' content included profanity, homosexuality, discussion about sex, cross-cultural/interracial sex and making fun of the clergy, while care 'needed to be taken' when it came to depictions of criminals, arson, medical procedures and passionate kissing. No slinky or suggestive outfits were allowed in terms of dancing and adultery and extramarital sex had to be shown to have negative consequences. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_CodeWarner Brothers Bob Clampett wanted to do an animated version of John Carter's adventures in the 1930s. Perhaps on this Earth, he might have done so. That's the only reference I can find to plans for a pre- twenty first century John Carter film project. United Features Syndicate produced a John Carter of Mars series for only sixteen months (1941-3), before it was shuttered due to lack of popularity: jimhillmedia.com/lost-cartoons-the-animated-john-carter-of-mars |
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Post by dans on Apr 11, 2024 22:46:14 GMT
Yeah, I had Sophie be a big fan of John Carter in the magazines. I was thinking of using the Charles Atlas ads instead, though.
Thanks!
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Post by dave on Apr 12, 2024 2:25:17 GMT
Who were the first big male movie stars to wear very revealing costumes on screen in the US? Silent film star Douglas Fairbanks as well as other stars of the 1920's. Almost any adult (20+) in the 1940's would know him and other stars like him. He was a favorite of my father who was only 20 years old in 1939.
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Post by dave on Apr 12, 2024 2:31:10 GMT
And Douglas Fairbanks Jr was a highly decorated US Naval officer who worked FDR as well as commanding PT Boats and other mall craft in the Mediterranean and Pacific Theaters of Operation
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