What Price Hollywood?

First intimate expose of the private life and glamorous loves of a Hollywood star

A pre-Code Hollywood melodrama tracing the rise of an ambitious waitress and the parallel decline of her mentor, exploring ambition, alcoholism, and the cost of stardom.

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.