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casting couch
noun
the notional or real sofa in a director’s office, used for sex with an actor hoping for a part US, 1931
Based on the commonly held belief that a sexual performance is all the audition required.- “I don’t care if you go over Niagra Falls in a barrel with it,” Betsy said. “You and your casting couch.” — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 7, 1954
- [O]nce he starts making a living he’ll be off with the cute young chicks, leaving poor old Letitia to her Scotch and casting couch. — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 219, 1968
- Are you referring to what we in the trade have come to term the casting couch? DONA MASON: No. Oh, it still exists, of course, but I’ve managed to keep my back off of it so far. — Flick, p. 10, February 1970
- Any place where theatrical people cluster is a casting couch. — John Francis Hunter, The Gay Insider, p. 107, 1971
- — Bruce Rodgers, The Queens’ Vernacular, p. 43, 1972
- Both agents profess to being proud family men who never ran casting couches. — Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square, p. 38, 1986
- And he, this purveyor of porn, gets her on a casting couch at first callback in an office in Midtown, the oldest gambit in the business of show. — Jim Carroll, Forced Entries, p. 104, 1987
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