20 Shocking Habits of 1950s Movie Stars Between Takes That Fans Never Saw

20 Shocking Habits of 1950s Movie Stars Between Takes That Fans Never Saw In 1952, a 22-year-old from Fresno named Nora Pryce earned about $20 a day at Paramount, standing under the hot studio lights in a movie star's spot. She saw everything between takes. When she left, she kept a strip of tape from the soundstage floor. What she wrote on the back comes last. We only saw the stars when the camera rolled. Everything in between belonged to the crew, the stand-ins, and the people who kept quiet. Nora kept quiet for eight years. Number fifteen gave one of the biggest singers in America a nickname he never lost. Number six put a three-month-old baby in front of a movie camera. And number one is the reason Nora kept that tape.