Jeanine Basinger on "The Star Machine"

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Jeanine Basinger is the chair of film studies at Wesleyan University and the curator of the cinema archives there. She's written ten books on film including "The Star Machine." Basinger tells Anne Strainchamps how the movie studios manufactured stars from the 1930s to the 1950s. And we hear clips.