Getting Into the Movies – Movie Etiquette
the business.
2. Don’t criticize.
3. Try your best to please everyone, particularly the director, whose shoulders are carrying the responsibility for the whole production and whose manner may be a bit gruff as it usually is when a man is laboring under a heavy load.
Don’t be ashamed of being in the movies. If you think movies are a low-brow form of making a living your associates will surely become aware of your state of mind and you will be quietly frozen out.
In the old days of the movies social status in the studio was determined by a curious system, based upon the pay envelope. Actors for the movie world is composed for the greater part of actors are classed as stars, the “leads,” the “parts,” the “bits,” the
“extras” and “mobs.”
The star is, of course, the highly paid actor or
