This documentary focuses on the role of the casting director in movie making and particularly on Marion Dougherty. She began work in the late 1940s sending up and coming young actors to be cast in the then new medium of television. It wasn't until the 1970s that the contribution on casting directors was recognized in film credits and even today there is no Oscar awarded for that role in filmmaking.... (Full plot summary below)
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This documentary focuses on the role of the casting director in movie making and particularly on Marion Dougherty. She began work in the late 1940s sending up and coming young actors to be cast in the then new medium of television. It wasn't until the 1970s that the contribution on casting directors was recognized in film credits and even today there is no Oscar awarded for that role in filmmaking.
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| National PostNathalie AtkinsonDonahue makes a compelling case that publicly unsung hero Dougherty (and L.A. counterpart Lynn Stalmaster) had a profound influence on the industry. |
| Film School RejectsChristopher CampbellAll movie fans need to watch Casting By ... a brisk, breezy, enjoyable and often endearing educational experience. |
| Village VoiceDaphne HowlandWhile Dougherty clearly had an almost eerie sense of how a particular actor might inhabit a part, this film also shows that she may have single-handedly created a filmmaking craft and then made it indispensable. |
| VogueJohn PowersWhile the movie is not especially thoughtful (to put it mildly), it's worth seeing for all its revelatory TV clips and for celebrating one of the great female innovators in post-World War II movie history. |
| PopMattersSarah Boslaugh... a love letter to the casting industry in general, and to the pioneering casting director Marion Dougherty in particular. |
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsThe movie business is becoming more corporate and less personal... Recognizing and appreciating the work of casting directors may be one way to stem that tide, however briefly. |
| Under the RadarZach HollwedelCasting By is perhaps an esoteric film, made by a film buff for film buffs, but that's no slight against it |
| The PlaylistKatie WalshThis film reveals not just how integral casting directors are to the creative process of filmmaking, but really how important they have been in shaping the history of American cinema. |
| Globe and MailGeoff PevereCasting By is also something of an elegy for a lost era, when talent, even at its rawest, stood far above prettiness as the primary reason for getting the part. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohDelicious insider tales of the making of some of your favorite films enrich this wonderfully informative and entertaining doc about casting directors. |
