Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood (1935)

Record Details:

Title:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Date:
1935
Publisher:
Los Angeles : End Poverty League
Volume:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Leaf #:
000199
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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CHAPTER VII The Starving Harem In order to understand the moral conditions oi the cinema extra players, it is necessary to get a background of their financial status. Morals an so greatly affected by economics, and both the moral and economic aspects of the Hollywood extras are as sorrowful as they arc disgusting. Hollywood and the picture industry is an insti tution of extremes. A motion picture star mamake as much as three hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, and some have made a great dea more. An extra may often earn only fifty dollara year. There is no class of employees in th world so destitute as those players, if such they may be called, who provide the atmosphere i: films and who fill the bit parts. Not that they ar underpaid, for an ordinary extra earns eight dol lars a day, and good pay for overtime. One wh' speaks a line or two, or who wears jewels an! merits a close-up draws fifteen, it is the scarcit work that is responsible for their deplorable financial state. The whole trouble is the over supply of extraf. resulting in a little work for everyone, but no. enough for anyone. It is impossible to give ac ate figures of the total number of people de