Hands of Hollywood (1929)

Cast SUPPORTING PLAYERS Featured Players are just one degree below the stars. Frequently there is more than one featured player in a picture. Sometimes the featured players are the principals of the story; sometimes they are merely the supporting players. For example, Bessie Love, Charles King and Anita Page are the featured players and the principals of "THE BROADWAY MELODY," while in "COQUETTE" Johnny Mack Brown is only a featured player supporting the star, Mary Pickford. Featured players, whether under contract or free-lancing, receive from $500.00 to $3500.00 per week. Regular supporting players, contract or free-lance, receive from $100.00 to $2000.00 per week. A character actor or actress is one who portrays distinct characterizations. A "straight" actor is one who plays ordinary roles. For example, Jean Hersholt and Rudolph Schildkraut are character actors (two of the finest actors ever born) ; Dick Arlen and "Buddy" Rogers usually play "straight" roles. Contract Players are actors or actresses who are under contract to one company or producer, and who are paid a certain weekly salary whether working or not. Frequently a producer loans a contract player to another producer for one or more pictures. The borrowing producer usually pays the lending producer a weekly sum for the loaned player's services which exceeds the regular salary stipulated in the player's contract. However, the player does not receive this increase in salary. Free-lance Players are of two kinds, e. g., players who are in such great demand, usually for character roles, that they can make more money by signing up for one picture at a time than they can by signing a yearly contract with one producer; and players who are free-lancing because they have not been able to secure a contract. Children acting in motion pictures are usually supporting players, though some have been featured and a few have been [75]