TIL: in the silent film era, the movie producers refused to credit actors' names, because they didn't want the actors to get famous and get leverage for better pay
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There's always some greedy bastard trying to gatekeep the ladder while exploiting as many workers and creators as possible along the way.
United Artists came about as a reaction to this, founded by some of the biggest stars at the time: Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and others.
another thing TIL!
Is this the reason why it's so hard to find what are names of those female singers in those hit songs from famous DJs.
They were right
They were right not to credit the actors?
No, the latter half
There thinking were right about the leverage the actors get by crediting them. As for not crediting obviously it's wrong.
and this is why the producers union does have an agreement, but the Actors and the writers unions have not?