For seven years, background actors have been recognizing ... filled the house at the 99-seat Eastwood Performing Arts Center in East Hollywood. Like an old-timey silent movie performer, he then ...

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Moreover, productions are favoring a select group of background or stand-in artists whom they can trust and reuse. That is helping some extras counter the overall fall-off in work as Hollywood ...

Most of us, in Hollywood or outside it, are facing a common question: Can we have a working world in which you can survive without being a star? You may never notice background actors if they’re ...

Some time after Miss Dietrich learned English and migrated to Hollywood, emotional young ... Kosleck taught himself to paint, did some background pictures for a Janet Gaynor film.

On Monday, one of Hollywood’s leading media relations agencies, Principal Communications, said it had started a sister company that would specialize in scrutinizing the backgrounds of ...

However, the parties did come to a tentative agreement that background actors would be given at least 48 hours notice of scenes involving nudity or simulated sex acts. Members of the Hollywood ...

“I was expecting it to be blurry in the background of some scene at Rick ... in his movie “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.” His art direction read: “Smirking Jake Cahill [sitting ...

"It's part of Hollywood," Harrigan told The Times. "We're also in front of the camera, and we're an important part of TV and film." The role of a background actor is intentionally subtle.