Top 10 Rules Old Hollywood Stars Had to Follow
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- These Old Hollywood rules suck out the glamor. For this list, we’ll be looking at written and unwritten rules from a bygone cinematic era, demonstrating how the Golden Age of Hollywood wasn’t always that golden, or even bronze. Our countdown includes new names, staged romances, double agent assistants, and more! If you know any Old Hollywood stories, share them in the comments!
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the whole name change is not that gone from old hollywood
MIICHEAL KEATON= REAL NAME MICHAEL DOUGLAS
CHLOE BENNET = CHLOE WONG
Nichole Bloom= Nichole Sakura
For National Velvet Liz Taylor had to gain weight to looked older she was 12 years old!! Imagine how troubled was for that age. Poor Judy Garland that explains why did she became adicted to other drugs😢
Ava Gardner aborted one pregnancy while married to Frank Sinatra because she didn't want to bring their child into a troubled marriage. He wasn't working much then and was drinking a lot, resulting in them getting into a lot of fights, sometimes shouting at each other. The second one could have been coerced by the studios.
@@mahajanssen wow really sad and brave to her, like with Vélez but she commited suicide to prevent shame!! Thats shows Hollywood always was a a fake image.
85% of a child actor's earnings should go into a trust. Parents should get jobs to support the family instead of stealing their kid's money.
Idk Hollywood is shady AF I don't think Id want to allow my child on sets alone and that would be the reason I'd be a momager I would at least put 60% into a trust though.
I 100% agree! So many parents of child actors, both past and present, have placed enormous pressure on their kids just to gain wealth and success.
Amen
That’s an amazing idea.
I agree, but I think 90-95% of their earnings should go into a trust. I believe that the parents should work as well.
In the early thirties, my mom and aunts moved to Hollywood while trying to flee the Depression in Texas. As kids, they followed movie crews while they filmed around LA. Often they were used as extras and the stars would "pay" them in ice cream! They loved it. My great aunts worked as Universal actors and eventually married producers, writing scripts and music for the many movies....I have great old photos of them posing on the beaches in Santa Monica in the 1920s...
That's so cool!
I would love to see those 😍
Their names?
@@teijaflink2226
They played around with their names a bit, but I think they went by Marsha Hunt and Portia Paris. They were sisters, but I didn't even meet them until after Marsha passed (so I obviously never met her) and only got to visit with Portia once, which was incredible, I wish I had been able to talk to her for weeks about her experiences! She had to be in her eighties when I met her. Oddly, we looked a lot alike, and she gave my mom a ton of beautiful vintage clothes she had and told her she wanted me to have them. She dies very soon after that. She had also owned fantastically valuable land by Yosemite that my aunt inherited, and immediately sold, because she was always broke. It would have been like owning a diamond mine today, I wish so much they had been able to keep it in the family. My parents also spent wildly, tearing through their retirement savings as fast as possible. They went on the QE2 to Europe, built a huge mansion on a hill above Sonora in the Sierras, and had a wild time for years. Then everyone died. At least they really, really had a great time!! I'd like to collect as much info as I can and write a bio of them...I don't know if anyone would like it, but I'd love to dig up all the history, there has to be some crazy good stories!
take that to a hollywood history musume.
The story of Judy Garland is so tragic 😢
hancocki..... many situations in Garland's life were heartbreaking, but not tragic!!! She made a hell of a lot of poor choices!! The only thing 'tragic' about Garland was her death!!!
EVERY ACTOR & ACTRESS OWES Dame Olivia De Havilland...
She challenged the studio in court and won. The 1944 ruling, which found that studio's could not unilaterally and arbitrarily extend an actor's contract, came to be known as the de Havilland decision and sounded the early death knell for the studio system. By the 1960s, it would be completely dismantled...❤❤❤
This decision was also used to create the Teena Marie Bill / The Brockert Initiative for singers.
The fact that these women were forced or convinced to perform an abortion in order to keep their careers is diabolical 😢
Whats the excuse today for 97% of Abortions being elective surgery?
They could have said NO.
@@freddyfurrah3789 you are exactly right on!!!! Funny how greed and notoriety can make people act a certain way!!!!
It must have been so hard to try to build a career, yet if you wanted to start a family, it was frowned upon. Luckily, modern actresses aren't expected to choose between the two, and can easily have both.
I think just being an actor/actress was hard with the clauses they had to follow, or they got blacklisted
It's a wonder new stars kept showing up.
I'm surprised child star Patty Duke wasn't mentioned. She had her name and background completely changed by her managers, a husband and wife team. Then they cruelly told her that her old name was dead. How awful to lose your own personal identity!
Anna "Patty Duke" is a Hollywood hero to me. You're right, she should have been mentioned.
Joan Crawford hated the last name because she thought it sounded like Crawfish lol
Another topic in this video that wasn’t brought up is that if an actress couldn’t sing their voices were dubbed by an another actress. Such as the case of Marni Nixon dubbing for Natalie Wood, Audrey Hepburn, and Deborah Kerr.
Well, it was sorta noticed in the contract clip from "Singin' in the Rain" but you make a valid point... KDM
So much for the "Golden Age" of Hollywood! 🙄
That Dick Cavett interview of Katharine Hepburn is amazing. You can tell he is absolutely enchanted by her. It’s worth checking out on CZcams.
Olivia De Havilland went to court for herself and other actors to choose their parts and not be locked into contracts❤It wasn't Katherine Hepburn 😒
standupphilisopher7059.....
De Havilland won her case. Her case involved suspension time on contracts. The studios were demanding that actors fulfill the entire time of the contract including any suspension time which may have accrued. De Havilland's case only opposed this and sued that studios could only honor the exact length of contracts without extenuating circumstances.
Katherine Hepburn sounds like she was a real badass!! Go Katherine!!!
Yes she was. She refused to wear skirts and dresses casually, preferring to wear pants. Also she was from Connecticut.
She was so tough. The studio execs told her she couldn't wear pants, she had to wear dresses or skirts. She ignored them. They took her pants! So for three days she walked around in her underwear. The execs caved and let her wear pants.
Stubborn, yes; but it built an image and reputation for her that put Hepburn in demand, especially when it could be paired with Spencer Tracey... KDM
That is why Hepburn never had too much of a personal life. Her career was the priority!! And that is why she survived Hollywood; she came out a big winner, and she had a great long life. Too many other stars were getting too involved in romances, marriages, affairs, etc....the studio heads knew that the truly dedicated, career-minded actors stood the better chance for a more enduring career.
Clever use of comedy scenes from two favorites of mine, Singin' In The Rain and Hail Caesar, to illustrate Hollywood realities that ranged from funny to tragic. Thank You, very good video.
Mickey Rooney and Ava Gardner’s marriage ended because of his cheating and partying ways. What does that tell you when Rooney did this while married to AVA GARDNER?
Judy never stood a chance.
lordalessan.....what do you mean "Judy never stood a chance"? With Rooney? Garland and Rooney were never a romantic item in real life!!! They were just very good friends.
Now if you're referring to Garland's career in Hollywood, that is a different story. I can only say that Garland made a hell of a lot of poor choices in her personal life. Betty Hutton was right. Garland never found herself!!!
It's a wonder they got any new stars with these conditions.
I know right?
Fabrication, manipulation, repression, cover-ups, conforming to established faulty standards... sadly Hollywood hasn't really changed that much.
Pretty much every Rule of old Hollywood that was listed Judy Garland was mention 😢
I am loving the old Hollywood videos!
Wow, that’s just sad and degrading. Every actor must had been through hell dealing with the awful things they done.
Signing the contract was a huge risk
Hate they went through all that but I’m glad it’s different and now acting is everywhere and not just Hollywood.
That’s why Katherine Hepburn is a queen
Old school actors will and always will be the best.
oh yes because back then you had to have some kind of actual skill or talent; proper acting, dancing or singing but if you had all 3, you'd be almost guaranteed a roll somewhere.
These days, you don't need any talent or skill to become an actor.
@@beck86 well it is very picky to find talent
Back then, if you're a man, you sign up a deal, and shake a hand
But if you're a woman, you have to sign a deal, and then kneel down or bend over
As if it was the norm
It’s actually very sad thinking about it.
Funny thing.The same folks who scream and shout about Gay Marriage seemingly forget about how back in the days how
Mackey Roone was married eight times;Liz Taylor nine times,Ava Gardner was married three times,Tammy Wynette was married five or six times and let's not how many times the Gabor sisters were married!!
Yet we worry about LGBTQ People and Drag Queens.
@@johnpatterson4816 Even when gay marriage first reared its head (well, really publicly) in the 1990s, most of the biggest opponents were on their second (or even third) marriages or were cheating on their spouses--some were even on a multiple marriage AND cheating on their spouse. What's really funniest (or maybe most ironic) is that just a half-decade earlier, some of the leading right-wing religious leaders had been endorsing some form of legally recognized partnership for gays (mainly men) as a way of combating the AIDS epidemic (primarily by fighting "gay promiscuity").
And many times they STILL didn't get the part. Happens today too.
So much of this list makes it devistatingly clear that Old Hollywood HATED women.
40 hours a week is still a quite a bit...that's a full time job for a child
5:17 kudos for featuring buster!
Imagine what things could've been if social media was available at the time
More strict rules
I don't know if it's true, but I heard at one of the studios: Paramount, 20th Century Fox, MGM.? All actresses and actors had to put in an hour of horseback riding, an hour of dancing, rehearsals, singing lessons, etc. etc. etc.
@tweettweetjones1262....the studios which offered such services did have many of their named brand stars take advantage of the services. Sessions in diction, acting, singing, dancing, athletics, fencing were NOT unheard of. These sessions or lessons made the actors more versatile, more educated, more skilled, more everything. There was nothing wrong with that!!! In fact, these Hollywood actors today need them badly. Too many act and sound so stupid that I do not put myself through the agony!!! Those studios were like little colleges from which many actors came for the better.
Ha. On stage, they’re over the top, glamorous, and seemed like having fun. But off stage, they’re controlled by movie studios and feel like the stars are owned.
Very interesting!
As for #9, that makes me think of Cliff Clavin. IYKYK.
#8 Forbidden Relationships: Makes me think of Robert Wagner & Barbara Stanwyck's affair after meeting on the set of 1953s Titanic...was his 1st major picture. Social pressure forced them apart because of their vast age difference.
Good for Loretta Young! I can't believe that stars that got pregnant when they were married could be forced to end the pregnancy. I guess they didn't want to lose their careers.
Loretta was a Catholic so........
Loretta Young was a devout Catholic, and she was not going to have an abortion. Many other female film stars were also confronted with this same scenario. Many of them were too damn stupid to say NO!!! They should have been following Loretta's example.
How ironic to be paid to live out fantasies of being allowed to be different people, yet at the same time, having to have permission to be yourself…not really worth it if you ask me.
@mpurrkinz..... exactly!!! Thank God Betty Hutton found herself in @ 1975. Beginning in the late '60s she was on a rapid downward spiral after several failed marriages and some drug abuse. She found God, Father McGuire and herself. In 2000 she was interviewed by Robert Osborne on TCM. Betty was right. Judy Garland never found herself. It was all still a big facade with Judy even after she was 40 years old. Hollywood is a very superficial place!!!!
I don't know. Based on stories I've heard some of these things on this list are still going on today. There are still a good number of actors who are in the closet because they won't get cast in leading roles if their sexual orientation is known. There are still models and actresses who will later tell you they've had an abortion before because of their careers. Plastic surgery is still fairly common in Hollywood and so is the drug use. PR orchestrated relationships for a variety of reasons are 100% still a thing. I think the only thing that's not included on this list are those tragic stories about harassment and sexual exploitation.
You didn't even begin to talk about the transformation of Rita Hayworth
A lot of these rules were just the sign of their times and what the rules and expectations were at the time.
Old Hollywood>Current Hollywood.
Then again, they probably weren’t better back then in the past than they are now, really.
I personally favor Old Hollywood to the current Hollywood, but in all honesty, not much has really changed. The only difference is that, back then, they at least pretended to have morals because of the Hays Code and studio contracts. But now, everyone can see how dirty Hollywood really is.
Would films be boring today if the Motion Picture Association still uses the Hays Code?🤔🎞🚫
@bennymora3086 I don't think films would be boring at all if the Hays Code was around today. Although I personally think that the Code was a restriction on free expression, it actually required filmmakers to be more creative. For example, at one point, the Code prohibited actors from kissing for more than 3 seconds. In Notorious, Hitchcock got around this by having Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman talk in between breaks in their kiss. It made the kiss scene feel a lot longer than it was, but no less steamy. If anything, the Hays Code showed that movies don't need an abundance of sex, gore, etc, to be good.
Every generation has its own set of pros and cons. Hollywood has been no exception. There were a lot of good things which resulted from the studio years as well as not so good. On the other hand, today's freelancing has a lot of positive results, but there are a lot of negative ones also.
If I were a Hollywood actor today, I would demand a studio contract for my first few years in the business. Afterwards, I would freelance.
The studios routinely ignored or deliberately flaunted the Hays Code until Joseph Breen replaced Hays as the head of the agency.
Don't kid yourself! Today's Stars STILL HAVE TO FOLLOW these rules!
Not really now
Some of them
my brain over the snippet of Rita Hayworth: Is that Ann Miller talking, there? (Saw she's in that "film" documentary) Happy birthday to her. and again.... hugging my Toto's for some of those stories.
good video
if i had a kid and they were in acting, i would put 100% of their money away. that’s their money. they earned it, not me.
You might feel different if doing that meant you had to work full time to pay the bills while only the-gods-know-who is in charge of your kid. Set-parents serve a purpose, and because of that, can't work outside jobs.
I'm convinced Cary Grant had a nose job 1935 or so.
Archibald Leach also known as Cary Grant.
Mary Astor's mother sued her for financial support she thankfully lost
15% to the child? No way! It should be 15% for the parent and 75% for the child
Bio mini-series on Natalie Wood makes the one about studios playing matchmaker.
Natalie Wood and her sister, Lana, were basically pimped out by the studios to be beards for many gay and bi actors. If you look through their dating lists for the 1950s and '60s, it's a who's who of closeted Hollywood.
Please do a video about Jean Harlow ! The fact she died mostly because her mother's religious beliefs was pretty sad
How did she die
@@aliciasimmons8473 Kidney failure. She had scarlet fever as a child, and that complicated it. There were rumors that her mother, a Christian Scientist, refused to allow doctors to be called or allow Harlow to go to the hospital, but William Powell (her fiance) was with her from the beginning and called her mother to come home from a vacation. She had doctors (first doctor misdiagnosed her with an inflamed gall bladder) and nurses at her home and went to the hospital with the second doctor correctly surmised it was kidney failure.
Wow Msmojo
Can you make a top 10 video about Rebecca from watchmojo?
Even before, it was all greed and hate within.
No, no, no.
My father grew up in the times. Rooney chased her, and she was flat NO.
Stay young forever 🍹
Nowadays, we have Disney forcing actors to date each other
They have done that since forever
Simon!
Yeah i do not think stars today has to follow any rules. But its interesting to see how things have changed since then.
And a bit of freedom
In today's Hollywood, most actors use their REAL names, unlike the HW of yesteryear.
Wowwww Rita Hayworth was the most beautiful woman in the world. (That hair, those lips) and she was long and lean. An amazing dancer
Very similar to South Korea's entertainment world until rather recently.
anyone else hearing that Hollywood Production Code number in their heads right now?
Substitute "slave" for "golden" age of Hollywood. Despicable. Cheers....
It's Truly Amazing How Many People Throughout Human History Had to Needlessly Suffer So Immensely Because of Such Complete and Absolute Stupidity! It's Sickening!
Bette Davis "lost the battle but won the war" with Warner paying her legal fees.
🎉
AND YET, MOVIES WERE SO MUCH BETTER UNDER THE HAYES COD, THE CREATIVITY WAS AMAZING🎉
Marilyn Monroe
Judy Garland
Anne Hathaway
Judy and Marlin and Audrey are examples of this and it's sad.
Loretta Young didn't formally adopt Judy. She just said she did nd then when she married Fab her her new husbands name in hopes people would forget. Didn't fool it people.
For those that don't have a clue as to what a "Lavender Marriage" is?
The term lavender marriage relates to man-woman marriage which is for purpose of hiding homosexuality 😜
Yup! Even way back in "Old Hollywood" there were homosexual actors and actresses 😝
A few notable ones were Rock Hudson, Cesar Romero aka the OG Joker Marline Dietrich, John Wayne aka The Duke was a crossdresser, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford was "bisexual" and lastly, Tullahulu Bankhead aka The Black Widow on the 66 Batman TV show 😜
@Watchmojo this is the "top 10" video I enjoy the most because you learn something new 😝
Unlike your other "condescending" videoes" 😡
Keep these "types" of videos coming 😛
But why "lavender" marriage?
This is called a "beard" in slang terminology. The term lavender marriage was started in the 1920s. Such marriages are called marriages of convenience.
As for John Wayne, a person can still be a cross dresser and a heterosexual. 😉
I mean there were other factors regarding Lorette Young’s pregnancy like Clark Gable assaulting her but of course this channel wouldn’t mention that.
I already knew this fact by "research" on Google. And yeah, MsMojo wouldn't mention this on the video.
Sadly that wasn't seen as bad. Keep in mine anyone who was a kid in the 80's and 90's was still told that boys treating us like shit was proof they liked us. So boys thought they had to be aggressive and girls thought we were supposed to be flattered even when it sucked. That does't make it OKAY, but it does explain why that shit happened so openly. I know Clark Gable was under extreme pressure to be a capital-letters MAN like that, and he hated it. His best friend, Myrna Loy, talked about it after he died, and how he was when he wasn't stuck acting for the public. A lot of stars were NOTHING like how they outwardly acted. A lot of them hated themselves for who they were literally legally contracted to be.
@@Author.Noelle.Alexandria Yeah I don’t really feel for Clark. If he actually didn’t want to be like his playboy persona then 1. he wouldn’t have forced Loretta into an intimate situation, 2. He wouldn’t have thrown away the letter she sent to him in which she told him she was pregnant, and 3. He wouldn’t have refused to meet his daughter or financially care for her.
Poor actors😧
Controlling executives running actors and actress’ life on and off the studio.
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..yes, for the most part those actors needed the control of the studios. Many of them were uneducated, unskilled people trying to work. The studio system was good for many actors because it told them how to conduct their lives. We do not see this today, and that is a major factor why today's Hollywood actors are NOT too respected. Come on, look at the facts. Ronald Reagan, a product of the studio system became president. What actor since the 1980s has become president??? Not one!!!! The entire caliber of the people during the studio years was entirely different than today's.
Never want to be associated with Hollywood and grimness of it all.
3:26 WHAT THE FUCK
The irony is.. pro wrestling parodied this with their kayfabe rules for decades...
Most of these seem great ideas to be honest so stick to them
Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor didn't have a lavender marriage.
I agree.
Yes, it always bugs me when people romanticize the Hays Code era. To those working in film, it was hell. It makes me wonder why this same legacy of censorship appears in the recent whine about diversity in film and television being "woke." There is more freedom now than before. And a lot of classic movie stars did have to crack at the glass for it to be so.
Fatty Arbuckle is one of the most notorious celebrity comedians i've ever imagined.
You are aware I assume that his career ended due to him killing a prostitute.?
Fatty was framed.
Heard of Lenny Bruce? Richard Pryor? Louis CK? Joe E Brown? Phil Hartman? Sam Kinison?
Just because one man was targeted and hounded doesn't make him the most notorious.
In many ways, it wasn't even lead.....
🙊🤯👌💖💝💛
Sorry, but can we explore lesbianism in old Hollywood more, please?
One of the reasons why Hollywood is falling and it's such a toxic industry to work in is because of it's origin as essentially an organized crime network. You had your powerful families (studios) and they pulled all the strings from behind the scenes, and you didn't cross them if you wanted to work in their town. In their world they were judge and jury and you paid your respects. It's the only reason the Oscars is still relevant and it's also the reason the Oscars becomes more and more irrelevant with each passing year- no one wants to be a part of something like that, and now that their world is being exposed (and thanks to social media and streaming platforms allowing many different avenues to success) they don't have to be. People are willing to stand up to the relics of old Hollywood and they want change.
Old Hollywood has history of racism actors and actress of color aren't getting lead roles back then they are cast in supporting roles mostly sidekicks.
Looking back they aren't prepared for it to break barriers
How many commenters blame a certain ethnicity for everything bad about Hollywood and believe that no other place on earth is as evil - because of that certain ethnicity. Comment down below if you agree😉. If you give a thumbs up that means you like this ethnicity😉
@inarah.5344.....are you stating that a certain ethnicity is to blame for Hollywood's wickedness???? No, humans in general are to blame for Hollywood's wickedness!!! The reason that Hollywood is constantly viewed as the most wicked is on account of all the exploitation and publicity and lies that make the headlines, social media, film, television,etc.....greed and notoriety play big roles in Hollywood!!!!
The HYs code was a GOOD THING.
Dammit, I love when the channels I watch pop up in each other’s content! I was listening to this video while scrolling and instantly hopped over to confirm: WhistleBoi 😁🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽