The world premiere of the restored 1932 Joan Crawford film Letty Lynton, unseen for decades except in bootleg copies, will be Friday at the Egyptian Theatre.

The TCM Classic Film Festival returns to Hollywood April 30 through May 3 to celebrate “The World Comes to Hollywood,” honoring the pioneers and immigrants who helped infuse the fledgling California studios with fresh ideas, innovations, and creativity, transforming family style businesses into giant dream factories. Cineastes as well as film neophytes will enjoy rare and restored films, star appearances, introductions by TCM hosts Ben Mankiewicz, Eddie Muller, Dave Karger, Alicia Malone, and Jacqueline Stewart, and the opportunity to meet fellow film lovers from all over the world for four film-filled days of fun, film, and sun curated as only TCM knows how.

Special events will highlight the festival, including a hand and footprint ceremony for actress Glenn Close, the presentation of the Robert Osborne Award to Bruce Goldstein, Founding Repertory Artistic Director of New York Film Forum and longtime Turner Classic Movies supporter. and tributes to director Rob Reiner, actress Barbara Hershey, and composer Paul Williams.

Passes can be purchased online exclusively at TCM.com/festival, allowing the best chance to attend the festival. They come in four levels, offering distinct levels of benefits to fit every need. They can be picked up at the Roosevelt Hotel beginning Wednesday, April 29. Pass prices are $449 to $2,649.  The festival schedule is here.

Cabin in the Sky (1943) with Ethel Waters, Eddie Anderson, John W. Bubbles and Lena Horne, showing Sunday at Chinese Multiplex House 4.

Club TCM returns at the Roosevelt’s Blossom Room, an intimate theatre setting exclusively for passholders in which to relax, make new friends, and enjoy special presentations. It epitomizes Hollywood glitz and glamour, held at the location of the first Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ first Academy Awards banquet. Events there include “Kennections” with “Jeopardy” host Ken Jennings, “So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Conversation with Carol Burnett,” the lecture “Hollywood Emigres and Exiles,” “Music and Musings with Dave Karger, “A Conservation With Barbara Hershey,” and “A Conversation With Paul Williams.”

The festival presents a true rarity Friday morning with the screening of the 1932 MGM film “Letty Lynton,” plagiarized from a successful play, and for which MGM lost a federal copyright lawsuit forbidding them to ever show the film again and requiring them to pay the playwrights hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Pre-Code films enliven the schedule, with such titles as “Blonde Venus” (1932), “Looking for Trouble” (1934), ”The Mouthpiece” (1932), and “Trouble in Paradise” (1932). Noiristas will enjoy such films as “Out of the Past” (1947), “Strangers on a Train” (1951), “Phantom Lady” (1944), and “Stranger on the Third Floor” (1940). Special guests such as Faye Dunaway, Cameron Crowe, Sharon Stone, Laura Dern, Carol Burnett, Robert Townsend, and historian Leonard Maltin will introduce many of the films.

May McAvoy and Bert Lytell in Lady Windermere’s Fan, showing Sunday at the Egyptian Theatre.

Silents get their due as well. Besides screening the Marion Davies’ film “The Patsy” (1928), with Ben Model accompanying, the festival will also present Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times” (1936) with pre-recorded score, and “Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925),” accompanied by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.

Rarely screened films offer timely looks at a variety of subjects. Walter Pidgeon stars in the Fritz Lang-directed “Manhunt” (1941), the story of a big game hunter whose failed attempt to hunt and kill Hitler puts him on the run. Other movies offering biting commentary on contemporary issues include “A Face in the Crowd” (1957), “Ace in the Hole” (1951), “All the President’s Men” (1976), “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” (1939), “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (1939), “Lonely Are the Brave” (1962), “Robocop” (1987), and Paddy Chayefsky’s “Network” (1976).

A 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T races a 1966 Jaguar XK-E in the 1971 film Vanishing Point, showing Friday at Chinese Multiplex House 6.

Those looking for a little night time fun can also enjoy screenings poolside at the Roosevelt Hotel, where such films as “Grease 2” (1982), “The Thing From Another World” (1961), and “Swingers” (1996), join the party. Other popular titles such as “Dangerous Liaisons” (1988), “That Thing You Do!” (1996),”Notorious” (1946), “The Bad News Bears” (1976), “Jerry Maguire” (1996), and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) screen in the TCL Chinese IMAX theatre

Come enjoy classic films on the big screen as they were meant to be seen, in some of the world’s most dramatic and iconic venues, while making new friends along the way.