HUGE STAFFS OF EXTRAS
NEW FOX PRODUCTIONS More than 3,500 extras were work mg on pictures at Fox Movietone Cit: in Beverley Hills, and the Fox studi* in Hollywood, during a seven-da: period recently. Moreover, accordin* to Have Todd, assistant casting direc tor, these figures could be eclipsed t he had time to look them up. ‘‘Married in Hollywood.'’ Oscar Strauss's operetta, which is beii transferred to the screen by directo Marcel Silver, used 1,800 extras durin; the period, with all types includec from peasants to aristocrats. Benjamin Stroloff, directing the "Gii from Havana,” used 150, while Ken neth Hawk's Big Time,’’ with Be Tracy, used 250 theatre patrons an* back-stage atmospheric types. Three hundred airplanes, pilot• mechanics, and other flying field at taches were employed in "The Sk. Hawk,” and David Butler, director o “Sunny Side Up,” the De Sylva. Browi and Henderson musical play, *o featuring Jane. Gavnor and Chari-. Farrell, used 1,100 .New York East Sid* types.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 813, 6 November 1929, Page 17
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