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^hat Do You Mean -"STAR
Can Yo u Te 1 1 The Difference Between Featured Players And Stars?
By JACK GRANT
IF there is one thing about which picture players are supersensitive, it is this question of stardom. To the public at large, every actor on the screen is a "movie star." Newspaper headline writers have literally a mania for the appellation — particularly, if the rest of the phrase is "Involved in Scandal."
Actually, there are only forty-four players to-day who can rightfully be called "movie stars."
In the film fraternity, actors are as thoroughly classconscious as the army-training-camp officers were in wartime. Perhaps you remember how a Second Lieutenant would visibly swell when by chance you called him Captain. Refer to a featured player as a star, and you can get the same reaction. But demote, however inadvertently, an established star to the featured class and your stock as a man-about-town decreases accordingly. The etiquette of proper designations would baffle an Emily Post.
Generally speaking, there are five distinct classifications of film acting — namely: stars, featured players, bit players, extras and atmosphere. The differences arc more or less academically defined.
Stardom is officially conferred upon an actor only when his popularity and prominence are deemed more important to tne box-omce than the title of his current picture. The difference might be &aid to depend entirely upon an "in" or a "with." Thus when a picture billing reads Joe Doaks in "Svmpath<itic Sin," Joe is bein^ starred. If the title precedes Joe's name as "Sympathetic Sin" with Joe Doaks, he is only featured.
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MANY featured players of to-day can never hope to attain star rating. Their names in a cast definitely draw some patronage, but they have reached their pinnacle. Others are now being groomed for approaching stardom.
The line that is hewn between featured and bit players generally depends upon the amount of 'business" an assigned part affords. A
The little words "in" and "with" tell the story. Maurice Chevalier was starred in "The Love Parade." Oary Cooper, ordinarily starred, was a featured player in "The Spoilers." Clara Bow was starred in "Love Among the Millionaires"
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