monsters and tough, tough businessmen. they knew that the things the public wanted were stars and stories and they ran it like a factory, and they rolled those things out 400, 500, 600 of them a year. >> there were only a few large studios and those studios made the movies, period. it was sort of like the mafia in that they controlled everything. >> studio system operated a pool of aspiring talent, what they called stock contract players. >> being a contract player didn't mean you're going to be a star. you were shuffled from one movie to the next. and often you weren't glorified extra essentially. >> hollywood has always been a difficult place for women. >> hollywood treats women as