Hollywood Landing: The Peg Entwhistle Story(2025)
A spectral reimagining of Peg Entwhistle’s fateful leap from the Hollywood sign in 1932. Bathed in grain and twilight melancholy, this speculative docudrama refracts the last moments of a forgotten starlet into a haunted meditation on fame, failure, and the myth-making machinery of American cinema. A celluloid séance in nine minutes. (Chicago Underground Film Festival)
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A spectral reimagining of Peg Entwhistle’s fateful leap from the Hollywood sign in 1932. Bathed in grain and twilight melancholy, this speculative docudrama refracts the last moments of a forgotten starlet into a haunted meditation on fame, failure, and the myth-making machinery of American cinema. A celluloid séance in nine minutes. (Chicago Underground Film Festival)
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