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The Casting Director
casting. A good casting director needs to file in his mind at least five thousand faces, and know the acting ability of each of these players.
Picture a scene in which the leading lady stops to examine the work of some dear old woman, perhaps a seamstress. From the flow of the story the casting director knows whether a moment of pathos or one of comedy is needed. Filed under "Pathetic Women," if that is the touch required, there may be forty names. But in all probability the casting director decides out of his memory which one of the forty fits this part, and he only reaches for his indexed book to find her telephone number.
Roughly, in every picture there are approximately twelve "principals," the characters about whom the mechanics of the story revolve. The leading two or three of these are called "stars," the others "supporting players." They represent the aristocracy of acting. In a large studio about 80 per cent of these "top flight" players will be recruited from the plant's own "stock company." They will be under contract to that studio from one to seven years, appearing in various pictures as assigned.
The remaining 20 per cent will be "free-lance" players who are in one studio today, another tomorrow. Below the principals in rank are the secondary or background players. Their importance is apparent. They are essential to the human atmospheric accuracy of the finished picture. At one time, more than seventeen thousand individuals had their names registered in the industry for atmosphere work.
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