RIDGEWAY CALLOW: Yes, it came immediately. Conditions were better right away. The exploitation ended, and I have to thank the actors for a great deal of that. The Screen Actors Guild stipulated that the members wouldn’t work Saturdays anymore, and if they did work Saturday, they got double time, which is quite a bit of money. If the studios had been reasonably fair, maybe there wouldn’t have been any unions, but unionization cost the studios in profitability.
