Early Film Reflects the Stage
Griffith Learns to Edit w/ Lilian Gish (beginning the director/actor relationship)
Power of the Closeup for Actors on Screen
Humphrey Bogart is the epitome of the studio-generated Star, who went from being typecast as a gangster and became instead the cynical film-noir hero who reveals his noble side at the end of the film.
Tom Cruise @ IMDB - A perfect PERSONA actor. His catalog is basically a rewriting of the same character for different narratives: the likeable bad boy gone good routine. He is always confident, arrogant, and self-serving at a movie's start, but life or circumstances teach him a valuable lesson that makes him a better person. He is as close to the studio actor as it used to exist within the old studio system. If you watch any interview with him, he maintains that persona continuously, just as a studio would require.
Johnny Depp @ IMDB
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