Contract Players: Life Inside the Star System

The studios manufactured and owned their stars — seven-year contracts, image factories, name changes, moral clauses, and the careers and lives the machine broke along the way.

Playlist by @inside.declineofthestudiolots.10fe

11 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Rules Old Hollywood Stars Had To Follow — Grunge
2. Child Stars: The Dark History of Hollywood's Golden Age — Serena G
3. Top 10 Dark Truths About Old Hollywood — MsMojo
4. How the Studio System Ruined Buster Keaton — Hats Off Entertainment
5. What Hollywood Was REALLY Like During Its Golden Age | Boring History for Sleep — The Snoozetorian
6. 10 Victims of the Studio System in Old Hollywood — Hollywood Secrets
7. 17 Old Hollywood Stars TRAPPED by Studio Contracts — Golden Age Exclusive
8. The Day Judy Garland Collapsed on Set — and MGM Covered It Up — Golden Age Exclusive
9. 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Old Hollywood Studio System — Lives Rewound
10. How Hollywood’s Studio System Built and Destroyed Careers — Hollywood Golden Hour
11. 24 Most Shocking Family Secrets Hidden by Hollywood's Greatest Stars — GoldenAgeFiles