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CASTING BY

By Tom DONAHUE

OFFICINE UBU - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline

Documentary - Completed 2012

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Duration
- 89 mn
- Director(s)
- Tom DONAHUE
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-70D5-0000-S-0000-0000-R
- Synopsis
- ‘Casting By’ puts the spotlight on filmmaking’s unsung heroes – the casting director – and takes us on a fast-paced journey through the last half century of Hollywood history from an entirely new perspective. Pioneers like Marion Dougherty and Lynn Stalmaster were iconoclasts whose exquisite taste and gut instincts helped to put the final nail in the coffin of the old studio system and usher in the New Hollywood with movies like ‘Midnight Cowboy’, ‘The Graduate’, and ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’. Afforded the unprecedented freedom and power of the new medium of television, they broke away from the traditional typecasting of Hollywood and brought a new kind of leading man and leading lady to the screen (Actors like James Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Bette Midler, Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman, et al). Tom Donahue combines personal narratives from countless actors and directors with extensive archival material to reconstruct the untold tale of Hollywood’s most invisible and unheralded profession.