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The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
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15 November 1968 (West Germany)
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OVERNIGHT A STAR...OVER MANY NIGHTS A WOMAN! more
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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 synopsis
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A carousel of deluded souls
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(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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130 min
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When Kim Novak walks along Hollywood Blvd, a theater she passes by is playing The Dirty Dozen (1967), a film Robert Aldrich made a year earlier, and whose commercial success made it possible for the director to start his own production company and make movies like this.
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Lewis Zarken:
Don't forget the Tibetan yak.
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Referenced in Midnight Cowboy (1969)
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Lylah
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Another piece of yesterday from Robert Aldrich, filthied-up through his askewed, slightly campy/slightly too-serious vision. We never know where we sit with an Aldrich movie--he enjoys setting up a comfortable scenario, then wickedly pulls the rug out from under his audience. He exposes all the weaknesses of Kim Novak as an actress, brutally letting the puckered blonde look silly (at her expense) and without ever giving her a fair shot at a meaty scene. The opening moments, with Kim (in a mousy wig) surrounded by movie magazines in a dingy Hollywood apartment, are richly evocative. Turns out Novak resembles a long-deceased movie queen and is tapped to star in a picture of the actress' life--to be directed by the woman's real-life husband! Bits of satire, supernatural elements, and symbolism muddy up this stew--but I admit to being engrossed by it all. Peter Finch, as always, is worth watching, and Novak's mere presence is tantalizing (even if her acting is not). DeVol's background score is lush, and I loved some of the set-pieces and overwrought melodrama. As for the ending, I would have a tough time explaining it to anyone, except to say that it is Aldrich's stamp as a director to go over-the-top. Here, he goes a little bit over-the-edge as well. ** from ****