41.   The old studio system has passed the torch to television where ongoing relationships with talent can still be nurtured.

42.   The practice defrayed production costs and lent verisimilitude to the independent, more realistic films that became prevalent with the collapse of the studio system.

43.   The ruling turned actors into free agents, bringing about the end of the Hollywood studio system.

44.   The studio system was dead.

45.   Underneath this reticence, though, lurks a gentle fierceness that has enabled him to make two thoroughly offbeat films within the Hollywood studio system.

46.   Unlike the days of the studio system, stars come and go.

47.   Wang Guangli seems particularly unsuited to make a movie legally in China, which requires working within a government studio system still replete with censorship and red tape.

48.   When actors like Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck were breaking through, the remnants of the studio system were still in place.

49.   With the demise of the studio system, actors were free to steer their own careers and revolted en masse against the assembly-line pace of early Hollywood.

50.   Writing for Hollywood was a bit easier in some respects during the heyday of the studio system.