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A documentary that celebrates autograph collecting, collectors, and our obsession with celebrities. It focuses on autograph dealing, the history of the autograph, autograph conventions, celebrities' point of view, and, of course, the folks whose lives revolve around autographs. Hollywood Signs is a love letter to a world with characters you definitely don't see every day.

Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.

In honor of the 100 year anniversary of the iconic Hollywood Sign, this short film is presented to help viewers better understand the true majestic beauty of this Hollywood Sign and all Hollywood signs.

Part interpretive history, part nature documentary, part biography, "Under the Hollywood Sign" combines archival pictures, new HD footage and interviews to tell the story of Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles.

In January 1960, Yves Montand and Simone Signoret, one of the most famous star couples of the day, were on tour in the United States. Yves Montand had just triumphed on the country's biggest stages. Simone Signoret, who had distinguished herself in "Room at the Top", was about to win an Oscar. It was then that they met Arthur Miller, a writer and playwright but above all, at the time, the husband of Marilyn Monroe, a world star at the height of her fame and beauty. Yves Montand and Marilyn Monroe fell in love and the actress did everything she could to make a film with the Frenchman. This is how they met on the set of the film "Let's Make Love".

An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.

Mild-mannered dirt-poor hill-dweller Jed Clampett strikes it rich when oil is discovered on his property. At cousin Pearl's insistence, he moves his family to Beverly Hills to better enjoy his newfound wealth.

Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in possession of a drug cache, which a ruthless drug dealer wants back. The dealer murders Daryl's brother and the small town boy ends up all alone in the big city, being pursued by both the drug dealer and the police, who suspect him of the murder.

Giant lava breathing tarantulas – Lavalantulas – erupt out of ancient volcanos in the Santa Monica Mountains, raining death and destruction upon Los Angeles. With the City of Angels on the verge of incineration, only a washed up ‘90s action hero actor stands in the way of this monstrous swarm of bloodthirsty creatures who burn their victims alive.

Growing up in small-town America, two friends dream about escaping their confining families to search for their dreams and freedom in the big city. Arriving in Los Angeles, the two discover the harsh realities of the city as they enter the shadowy world of the film business. Ultimately, the two friends must choose between love and friendship and soon discover that life has its own destiny for everyone.

Larry Wessel presents darkest Hollywood and explores some of tinsel town's most grisly tragedies, including the murders of Sharon Tate and The Black Dahlia.

Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.

Famous Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

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)