21. Actors and actresses had to cater to the press with staged photo opportunities
Dealing with the media is still a large part of any current Hollywood superstar’s job description, but in the days of Old Hollywood the pandering to the press was perhaps even more stifling. Staged photo opportunities were common, and the star was always expected to project their studio-marketed persona. Today’s stars can at least be themselves on press junkets, to an extent.
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