"Casting By" looks at the last fifty years in Hollywood by way of casting directors, profiling pioneers in the field like Marion Dougherty and Lynn Stalmaster, whose ability to spot screen potential helped shape the Ne...展开w Hollywood era with films such as “Midnight Cowboy,” “The Graduate,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “Bonnie and Clyde.” These casting directors helped steer cinema away from traditional conceptions of leading men and women, finding places for actors such as James Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Bette Midler, Robert Duvall and Gene Hackman.
Interviewees in the film include Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood, Glenn Close, Duvall, Jeff Bridges, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Diane Lane, Jon Voight, Midler and John Travolta, who appear alongside extensive archival material to tell the untold tale of Hollywood’s most unheralded profession.