Visit the Hollywood Sign

Attend a major Hollywood movie premiere or screening event in Los Angeles.

A dead screenwriter narrates from a pool; Gloria Swanson is ready for her close-up.

Johnny Depp as the worst director in Hollywood, in loving black and white; Martin Landau as Lugosi.

A New York playwright is put in a peeling Hollywood hotel to write a wrestling picture, and cannot.

A 1950s studio fixer spends a day recovering a kidnapped star; “would that it were so simple”.

Visit Los Angeles, a sprawling city in Southern California. Explore the Hollywood Walk of Fame (over 2,700 stars embedded in sidewalks honoring entertainment figures), see the iconic Hollywood Sign (45-foot-tall letters on Mount Lee), stroll along Venice Beach (famous for its boardwalk, street performers, and Muscle Beach outdoor gym), and visit the Getty Center (art museum with panoramic city views and gardens).

Herman Mankiewicz writes Citizen Kane, in 1930s studio black and white.

A silent, black-and-white French film about the end of silent film; and it won.