Do Show-Runners Hold to some #Credo that says They Have to Tell Us their Cast-Members' Names? Why do they HAVE to have #TheCredits?

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That question came up in a discussion about Gina Carino---the cage-fighting beauty was hired by a company to pretend to be someone else, and--since the company 'blabbed' the role-player's real name--Gina's uneducated statement was seen by many-many more people (on social-media) and thus got the girl fired!

Why must show-runners 'blab' the players' names? I'll search a little and 'present my findings' below, after ...

My reply to the discussion (that YOU CAN GET PAID TO JOIN) is linked through 'that word' below; but first I want to understand that word better. And I find you understand words better if you look at 'the words at their base' (then going on to look at the words at those words' bases, then the words at those words' bases, etc.-etc. ad infinitum)
The word "Credits" is built on many ancient words; one of which is “Credo (\ #Creed #Creedal #Credence #Credential #Credentials #Credulity #Credulous #ExpertoCrede #Incroyable #Miscreant #Recreant)” is built on ancient words that mean "to Give one's Heart" (Belief, Faith, Confidence, Devotion ... literally the first word of the Apostles'- & the |Nicene-creeds).
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Trying to find out why, I searched and found ...
  • Discussers on Quora give the general answer that 'cast-&-crew want to be appreciated for their contribution to the production.'
    • Would they be paid more money if they went uncredited?
  • Discussers on Stack Exchange say (besides the ones that mention 'why it's good for the cast- & crew-members to have their real names in the credits') that producers do it for the same reason Radio D.J.s announce the main artists playing the music just-heard ... because audience members want to know whose performances they're witnessing ...
    • ... and I suppose 'witnesses who want to know' feel that 'accessing iMDB or -the various fan-Wiki's etc.' is too inconvenient (¬_¬ )
  • The 'explain like I'm 5'-Reddit says it's part of 'the theatre-industry contract' (so much so that--if a producer leaves a cast- or crew-member out of the credits--the left-out worker can hold them liable (as happened with George Lucas, they say))
And I think that's the answer I was looking-for (maybe my question should've been "What reason do the show-runners have for listing the players' names at the beginning-and/or-end of the presentation?" The answer: reasonable or not, the productions' members will sue the show-runner if their name is not displayed according to 'The Industry Contract' 🎥

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