![]() Studio contracts could be notoriously ironclad, and like today, often included morality clauses that made failing to live up to the studio's moral standards a fireable offense. According to Garland, this happened to her and her co-star Mickey Rooney.Īlong with hiring fake friends to spy on them, there is reason to believe that the studios sometimes pushed their stars into fake marriages. As described by Judy Garland (via Gerald Clarke's "Get Happy") producers would also hire people to pretend to become friends with their stars, while secretly reporting everything they did to their bosses back at the studio. As noted by Turner Classic Movies, Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn was believed to have bugged dressing rooms and sets in order to listen in on the cast and crew. ![]() ![]() Many studio executives are believed to have spied on their stars in order to keep them in line. ![]()
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