He also said the ensemble casting gave the "' best ' performance in this best film this year from Hollywood.

" Similar concerns over the production's casting and performances were also raised by critics from the New York magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, Time Out New York and Bloomberg News.

In the late 1950s, Flynn met and courted the 15-year-old Beverly Aadland at the Hollywood Professional School, casting her in his final film, Cuban Rebel Girls ( 1959 ).

There continued to be an appeal for Australian actors in Hollywood as " action-men ", with the casting of Australian George Lazenby to replace Sean Connery portraying the superspy James Bond in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

As potential cinemagoers had been associating Cain with hard-boiled crime fiction only, this trick — exploited in advertisements and trailers — in combination with the casting of then Hollywood star Joan Crawford in the title role made sure that the film was going to be a box office hit even before it was released.

In December 2011, The Daily Mail published an article detailing the arrests of two Hollywood players who were accused of pedophilia: Martin Weiss, who a prominent manager of child actors, and convicted sex offender / kidnapper Jason James Murphy, who had been working as a casting director and had helped place child actors in Bad News Bears, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, and Super 8, " films with predominantly young casts ".

Barnaby Holm acted as a child but now lives in Los Angeles as a Hollywood club owner, Melissa Holm is a casting director.

Despite his trademark portrayal of happy, well-adjusted characters, Young's bitterness towards Hollywood casting practices never diminished, and he suffered from depression and alcoholism, culminating in a suicide attempt in January 1991.

Forlani's parents moved to San Francisco in 1993, in order to allow for wider casting opportunities in Hollywood films.

" In his biography of gay Hollywood agent Henry Willson, Robert Hofler deals with the rise of the studio star system, in which several actors spent time on the homosexual casting couch and dated girls or even entered into sham marriages in order to cover their homosexuality.

The musical toured the US in 1976 and during the tour, Kenneth Kamal Scott replaced Andre DeShields as the Wiz, Stephanie Mills was replaced by Renee Harris, who was herself replaced in 1978 by Deborah Malone and subsequently Dorothy was portrayed by Ren Woods for the Los Angeles run at the Ahmanson Theater, where the 19-year-old made a big impression on Hollywood, casting her in the Milos Forman film HAiR.

Among her memories of Hollywood are a less-than-subtle attempt by Darryl Zanuck to get her on his casting couch, and being called " You German pig " on her first day on the set of Major Dundee by a gaffer whose wife had lost her family in Auschwitz.

Cullen recalls auditioning for the role of the robot Optimus Prime at a casting house in Burbank, California, explaining that as he read Prime's character breakdown, he saw that it was " the opportunity of the year ", and heeded his brother Larry's advice: " Peter, don't be a Hollywood hero, be a real hero.

Granger was first noticed in a small stage production in Hollywood by a Goldwyn casting director, and given a significant role in The North Star, a controversial film praising the Soviet Union at the height of the war, but later condemned for its political bias.

Daly received rave reviews, with Marjorie Rosen remarking that Malpaso " had invented a heroine of steel " and Jean Hoelscher of Hollywood Reporter praising Eastwood for abandoning his ego in casting such a strong female actress in his film.

His most recent Hollywood debut was a casting role in the 2009 film, Little Hercules.

According to the Free Press, The Blade took exception to an editorial cartoon criticizing The Blade stance on downtown development plans by Rave Cinemas and Hollywood Casino Toledo ; The Blade cited the cartoon among the grounds for its lawsuit: " On or about August 21, 2011, Pounds ... permitted Toledo Free Press to publish a cartoon that depicted a characterization of John R. Block and Allan Block together with The Blade as casting an eclipsing shadow on jobs, tax revenue, investment and development in Toledo, Ohio.

He went to Hollywood as a young man where he was literally discovered on a street corner by the casting director for Tarzan of the Apes ( 1918 ), starring Elmo Lincoln.

For an episode of CBS Radio's " Hollywood Sound Stage ", broadcast December 27, 1951, Harry Cronman adapted and directed a condensed 30-minute version of the movie, casting Dana Andrews and Thomas Gomez in the leads.

* In her 1991 book You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, Oscar-winning producer Julia Phillips attempted to expose many of the underground Hollywood institutions, and confirmed that " casting couch " mentality was alive and well in Hollywood.

Much attention was paid to the controversial casting choices of Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer, two actors perceived as " beautiful movie stars " with Hollywood glamour, cast to play " lonely little people struggling to find love ," originated by supposed " ordinary " actors Kenneth Welsh and Kathy Bates.

For example, until the early 1950s in Hollywood it was extremely common for actresses to subtract at least one year from their actual age so that producers and casting directors would be more likely to hire them for roles, or for publicity purposes.

Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

De Palma is often cited as a leading member of the New Hollywood generation of film directors, a distinct pedigree who either emerged from film schools or are overtly cine-literate.

DeMille was one of the first directors in Hollywood to become a celebrity in his own right.

A 1954 article by Truffaut attacked La qualité française (" the French Quality ") and was the manifesto for ' la politique des Auteurs ' which Andrew Sarris later termed the auteur theory — resulting in the re-evaluation of Hollywood films and directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Robert Aldrich, Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang and Anthony Mann.

Trumbo, along with nine other writers and directors, was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ) as an unfriendly witness to testify on the presence of communist influence in Hollywood.

After Trumbo and the others were blacklisted, some Hollywood actors and directors, such as Elia Kazan and Clifford Odets, agreed to testify and to provide names of fellow communist party members to Congress.

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

What became known as the popular ' classical Hollywood ' style of editing was developed by early European and American directors, in particular D. W. Griffith in his films such as The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance.

Protested by the Hollywood Ten before the committee, the hearings resulted in the blacklisting of many actors, writers and directors, including Chayefsky, Charlie Chaplin, and Dalton Trumbo, and many of these fled to Europe, especially the United Kingdom.

The movement, while an inspiration to other national cinemas and unmistakably a direct influence on the future New Hollywood directors, slowly faded by the end of the 1960s.

From 1955 onwards, the works of directors of the so-called Polish Film School had a great influence on the contemporary trends such as French New Wave, Italian neorealism or even late Classical Hollywood cinema.

Several other new talents emerged during this period, and Alfred Hitchcock would confirm his status as one of the UK's leading young directors with his influential thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) and The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), before moving to Hollywood.

In addition to the aforementioned, other directors associated with top-of-the-bill Hollywood film noirs include Edward Dmytryk ( Murder, My Sweet, Crossfire )— the first important noir director to fall prey to the industry blacklist — as well as Henry Hathaway ( The Dark Corner, Kiss of Death ) and John Farrow ( The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes ).

During the golden age of Hollywood, Capra's " fantasies of goodwill " made him one of the two or three most famous and successful directors in the world.

He used his position on the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America, West on a number of occasions to mediate disputes between unions and the Hollywood studios, and although he was frequently accused by some on the right of championing the unions, he was valued by the studios as an effective mediator.

By 1930, Hollywood was in upheaval over the coming of " talkies " and many careers ( both actors and directors ) were ruined.

Many Hollywood studios were recruiting stage actors and directors that they believed were better suited for sound films.

The Hollywood directors and producers sometimes found ample opportunity for audience exploitation, with gimmicks such as 3-D and " Percepto " ( producer William Castle's pseudo-electric-shock technique used for The Tingler, 1959 ).

He was considered one of the last remaining directors who insisted on having complete control over all elements of production, making his style unique in Hollywood.

Alma-Tadema's meticulous archaeological research, including research into Roman architecture ( which was so thorough that every building featured in his canvases could have been built using Roman tools and methods ) led to his paintings being used as source material by Hollywood directors in their vision of the ancient world for films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), Ben Hur ( 1926 ), Cleopatra ( 1934 ), and most notably of all, Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

Elia Kazan (; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003 ) was an American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as " one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history ".

He was part of the wave of " New Hollywood " directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola.

A number of filmmakers have had their movies honored for their achievements in visual effects ; i. e., five films produced by George Pal, five by producer George Lucas, five by director James Cameron ( who began his career in Hollywood as an effects technician ), four by directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, and three by director Robert Zemeckis.

The 1950s saw the CBC providing hands-on training and employment for actors, writers, and directors in the developing field of its television dramatic services, and later saw much of the talent heading south to seek fame and fortune in New York and Hollywood.