The Studio System

          The studio system after the starting to fail, changed the way it operated and still remain this way today.  Now all they do is financially support movies that other people bring them in exchange for the rights to distribution, but back in the mid 1900s, they did pretty much everything themselves, from hiring the actors to distributing and writing the movie. An important aspect to me was the fact that each studio had actors on contract and the studio would market them. They also wound up creating movies for specific actors and actresses, and the actors also played pretty much the same role in every movie.

          My specific example would have to be Humphrey Bogart. He was contracted to Fox Film Corporation, and starred in a movie called The Petrified Forest in which he played a gangster. He was then typecast as a gangster and starred in a series of B movie gangster films.