Documentary: Nonfiction films exploring real people, places, and stories through a variety of perspectives and styles. (Encore screenings are programming decisions and do not indicate award preference. Schedule subject to change.)
A joyride through silent-film era Hollywood, whose center of gravity is a rising, 24 year-old starlet whose violent death clips the rose of her silver-screen dream. Discovered by Carl Laemmle in Chicago as a teenager while performing at the Gold Room of the Chicago Congress Hotel, he said if you move to Hollywood, I will be sure that you get your chance to be the next Mary Pickford, Pola Negra or Norma Shearerâ. Regina Doyle was on a trajectory of Hollywood film success, when tragedy struck, highlighted by a Premonition of Evil by her mother and the circumstances of how she died. One hundred years later her grandsons embark on a 20-year journey! We all know about the famous Silent Film actresses' and stars, the Clara Bow's, Fay Wray, Janet Gaynor and many others. But what about the other lesser unknown actresses of that galaxy of stars, such as the Untold Story of a Silent Film actress our Grandmother, Regina Doyle!
Documentary: Nonfiction films exploring real people, places, and stories through a variety of perspectives and styles. (Encore screenings are programming decisions and do not indicate award preference. Schedule subject to change.)
A joyride through silent-film era Hollywood, whose center of gravity is a rising, 24 year-old starlet whose violent death clips the rose of her silver-screen dream. Discovered by Carl Laemmle in Chicago as a teenager while performing at the Gold Room of the Chicago Congress Hotel, he said if you move to Hollywood, I will be sure that you get your chance to be the next Mary Pickford, Pola Negra or Norma Shearerâ. Regina Doyle was on a trajectory of Hollywood film success, when tragedy struck, highlighted by a Premonition of Evil by her mother and the circumstances of how she died. One hundred years later her grandsons embark on a 20-year journey! We all know about the famous Silent Film actresses' and stars, the Clara Bow's, Fay Wray, Janet Gaynor and many others. But what about the other lesser unknown actresses of that galaxy of stars, such as the Untold Story of a Silent Film actress our Grandmother, Regina Doyle!