Golden Vanity (2023) [N/A]

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Featuring:
Melora Hardin, Richard Riehle

Written by:
Max Abram
Taylor Minas

Directed by:
Max Abram


Release Date:
November 10, 2023

Original Title:
Golden Vanity

Genres:
Comedy | Drama

Production Companies:
Occasional Ghosts

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 83

After an unhinged stage crash at a 1967 awards show, faded movie star Mabel Montgomery-Mayflower flees and barricades herself in her mansion to tape-record her life story. In a solo tour de force, Melora Hardin (NBC's The Office) powerfully and painfully embodies the end product of Hollywood's use-them-up and spit-them-out machinery. Drunk and alone, Golden Vanity is Ms. Montgomery-Mayflower's last chance to preserve her horrifying, hilarious and unreliable truth - one last shot to relive the glory days, before it's too late.

The first one-woman feature film, Golden Vanity tells the story of a Judy Garland-esque movie star over the course of one night in 1967 as she tape-records what she thinks are her memoirs but could soon become her suicide note. In a solo tour-de-force, Melora Hardin (NBC's The Office & Amazon's Transparent) powerfully and painfully embodies the end product of the Hollywood use-me-up and spit-me-out machinery. Drunk and alone in her empty mansion, Golden Vanity is Ms. Montgomery-Mayflower's last chance to preserve her horrifying and hilarious life story, one last shot to relive the glory days, before it's too late...

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Art Direction:
Sally Baxter

Casting:
Lisa Essary

Co-Writer:
Max Abram
Taylor Minas

Costume Design:
Deena Appel

Costume Supervisor:
Derya Derman

Director:
Max Abram

Director of Photography:
Bryce Fortner

Editor:
Max Abram

Hairstylist:
Jean Webber

Makeup Artist:
Tonyia Verna

Music:
Stuart Brawley

Producer:
Max Abram
Taylor Minas

Production Design:
Justin Allen

Set Decoration:
Rudy Martinez
Harlan Leavitt

Songs:
Nick Thorburn

Unit Production Manager:
Nicole Ettinger

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