Inside the Dream Factory (1995 TV Movie)

Faye Dunaway: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Self - Host : The studios were self-sufficient. They wrote their own stories, made their own costumes, composed their own songs, and groomed their own talent. It was mass production for mass audiences.

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  Self - Host : The success of Hollywood began the moment it realized how to make America's dreams come true.

• Self - Host : The people who made the movies worked in factories from dawn to dusk, six days a week, but their factories had names like MGM, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount. For them, dreams were the stuff movies were made of, and the secrets of their manufacture were kept behind well-guarded studio gates; inside the Dream Factory.

• Self - Host : Most stars were happy working for the dream factories. Often spending decades at a single studio. And while some may have hated the men they worked for, they never forgot how lucky they were.

• Self - Host : No wonder Hollywood was called a factory town. It was an assembly line, all right, but with a touch of glamour you just couldn't find in Detroit.

• Self - Host : Warner Brothers had Bogart and Cagney; MGM - Gable and Tracy; and Paramount - Gary Cooper. But, the real tough guys of the dream factories were the ones who built them: the moguls. These were the most powerful, most respected men in Hollywood - and the most hated. Now, looking back, you have to wonder, did the movies get made because of them... or in spite of them?

• Self - Host : Moguls often became surrogate fathers. Big Daddies to the eager young actors they groomed for stardom.

• Self - Host : Moguls managed to stay in power for years and years. In fact,

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  Self - Host : was still running Warner Brothers in 1967 when we made

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  Self - Host : . He hated the picture. Oh, yeah, until he saw the long lines around the movie theaters. Then he said, "Now I like it!"

• Self - Host : The first time Orson Welles went to work in a movie studio, he said, "This is the biggest electric train set any boy has ever had." Practically everybody who worked in the dream factories felt the same way. The work was hard, the hours were long, but everyone knew even then, that it was something special.

• Self - Host : Studio contracts then had what was known as the potato clause - requiring stars to maintain a certain ideal weight.

• Self - Host : With so many great-looking stars in the dream factories and so many of them famous as great lovers, fans just assumed there was as much romance and seduction off screen as on. They were right.

• Self - Host : From the beginning, publicity has been as important to the movie industry as talent. Today they politely call it marketing, but during the heyday of the dream factories, there was another word for it. One that was right on the money - exploitation.

• Self - Host : Cheesecake. Almost every starlet, except Lassie, was subjected to it. The studios felt it would do wonders for their careers. After all, look how it immortalized

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• Self - Host : When stars got in trouble with the police, their first call wasn't to a lawyer; it was to the studio's publicity department. So, within minutes, a publicist would arrive and discreetly offer money, a few tickets to a premier, or a generous donation to the Policemen's Benevolent Association. And, suddenly, the incident never happened. There were some close calls though. In 1955, MGM was throwing a lavish press screening, you know, for the musical

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  Self - Host : . And one of the picture's stars showed up, after more than a few drinks, wearing a lovely white dress with matching gloves, hat, and high heels. Which would have been very tasteful had he been a woman. Luckily, studio publicists whisked him away, and the truth never got out.