His last feature-length film of the decade (and, by this point, his third pairing with Robert De Niro) was 1977's New York, New York, which featured De Niro as an abusive musician, and Liza Minnelli ...

Yet the studio system’s collapse in the early 1950s ushered in a new profession. “Casting By” is full of interviews, film clips, and close-ups of Dougherty’s detailed, handwritten 3-by-5 index cards.