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The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
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15 November 1968 (West Germany) moreTagline:
OVERNIGHT A STAR...OVER MANY NIGHTS A WOMAN! morePlot:
A dictatorial film director (Finch) hires an unknown actress (Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Vertigo redux? moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kim Novak | ... | Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann / Elsa Campbell |
 | Peter Finch | ... | Lewis Zarken aka Louie Flack |
 | Ernest Borgnine | ... | Barney Sheean |
 | Milton Selzer | ... | Bart Langner |
| Rossella Falk | ... | Rossella |
| Gabriele Tinti | ... | Paolo |
| Valentina Cortese | ... | Countess Bozo Bedoni |
| Jean Carroll | ... | Becky Langner |
 | Michael Murphy | ... | Mark Peter Sheean |
 | Lee Meriwether | ... | Young girl |
| James Lanphier | ... | Legman #1 |
| Robert Ellenstein | ... | Mike |
| Nick Dennis | ... | Nick |
| Dave Willock | ... | Cameraman |
| Coral Browne | ... | Molly Luther |
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Grauman's Chinese Theater - 6925 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA moreFun Stuff
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Based on an earlier TV production of the same material. moreSoundtrack:
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I just caught this yesterday, home with the flu. It certainly reminded me of Vertigo. Kim Novak takes someone's breath away because she reminds someone mysteriously of Lylah. Kim agrees to take the lead in a movie about Lylah. She is then made into Lylah's image -- recorded for all time in a painting. The difference from Vertigo: in Vertigo you eventually find out Kim is acting in a con; in this movie, the viewer is left to wonder if Lylah's ghost is taking over Kim. In Vertigo, the lead male suffers from vertigo; in this movie, Kim Novak suffers from Vertigo.
When Kim's voice becomes Lylah, it's laughable. The whole movie is so bad, it's almost good.