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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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