11.   Even more striking was the way in which Lucy personified the end of the old studio system and the rise of the new order in which independent producers proliferated.

12.   He was one of the first stars to figure out that the studio contract system was doomed and moviemaking power would soon pass into the hands of popular actors.

13.   Hollywood may be the Dream Factory, but there are plenty of individual dreamers at work outside the studio system, independently churning out well-intentioned schlock.

14.   In recent years the Hollywood studio system has become far more intrusive, he said, and left him quite depressed.

15.   In some ways Ms. Kingsley and others in public relations filled the void left by the collapse of the old studio system.

16.   In the dim past, film directors were spawned in the studio system.

17.   More than any other actress today, Sharon Stone is the archetype of the classic Hollywood star who flourished in the heyday of the studio system.

18.   Not since the days of the studio system have so few stars appeared in so many films in such a short time.

19.   Nowadays many a seemingly surefire movie project goes wrong, lacking the safeguards of the old studio system.

20.   Not that Sverak or Abraham would refuse to work in the American studio system.