'“To portray a role, you have to embody it. Pain is fleeting; film is forever.”'

Maddy Ulm is an immortal in the body of a child. In this ode to Golden Age Hollywood horror, she hovers around the fringes of backlots and soundstages while gaining the ears of the directors and stars. She helps shape these moving pictures with her uncanny insight as she becomes a legend. It's very cool seeing 'Jimmy' Whale, Karloff, both Chaney's, and others, as characters that have thoughts and conversations. 

'“Well, Miss Ulm.” Whale exhaled with a tint of boredom. “Meet the creature.” 
“That’s marvelous, Mr. Whale,” I demurred. “He’s perfect."'