Marc Malkin

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Kirsten, Rita and Kate Get Their Glamour On

Kirsten Dunst, Rita Wilson, Kate Hudson Lester Cohen/WireImage.com

Don’t be surprised if Kirsten Dunst announces any day now that she'll be making her debut as a feature-film director.

Dunst, Kate Hudson and Rita Wilson made their short-film directorial debuts at last night’s premiere of the Glamour Reel Moments short-film series. In conjunction with Clinique, Glamour magazine produced the three short films adapted from stories written by actual readers and will post them to its Website on Saturday. (Check out what Reel Girl, who was also in the house, has to say about the event.)

Most everyone was gushing over Dunst’s Welcome, a psychological thriller ghost story about a woman, played by Winona Ryder, who moves into a haunted house with her husband and young daughter.

Just the sounds in the house alone are creepy enough, but add in Ryder’s freaked-out expressions and a terrifying scene of the daughter laughing hysterically while being pulled down a flight of stairs by her feet, and Dunst gives us one helluva scary movie.

I’m told the folks at the Sundance Film Festival are already hot to have Dunst show the 12:42-minute film at next year’s festivities.

Hudson’s sappy sweet Cutlass stars Virginia Madsen as a mom whose wannabe musician daughter (Dakota Fanning) is begging for a vintage guitar. At first, Madsen’s character is hesitant, but she changes her mind after remembering the time her dad helped her buy a 1979 red Cutlass. Kurt Russell gets laughs in flashbacks as a chainsmoking, tracksuit-wearing 1970s suburban dad.

Dax Shepard Lisa O'Connor/ZUMApress.com

And guess who makes a brief cameo in Hudson’s flick? Her maybe-boyfriend Dax Shepard. Popping up at the gas station where the Cutlass is for sale, the funnyman is billed simply as a Background Extra.

Rita Wilson shows off her vocal chops in The Trap, about a woman (Jeanne Tripplehorn) whose life takes a turn for the better when her friends throw her a surprise birthday party. Wilson sings “Lessons Learned” during the film’s closing credits, a song written by über-hitmaker Diane Warren.

And she isn’t the only one crooning. I’m told Dunst joined her Marie Antoinette costar Jason Schwartzman for a cover of “Happy Together” at the end of Dunst's Welcome.

A party at the Chateau Marmont after the screening at the nearby Directors Guild of America included mini cheeseburgers and bite-size pizza slices served in white boxes. DJ Michelle Pesci provided the tunes.

Guests included Russell, Warren, Wilson’s husband, Tom Hanks, Martin Short, Dennis Miller, Tobey Maguire, Laurie David, Bryce Dallas Howard and Chevy Chase.

One last note about Kate Hudson. If people weren’t talking about how scary Dunst's film was, they were kvelling over how incredible Hudson looked. Dressed in a Zac Posen white shirt and black mini, she was one smokin' hot mama!

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