The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)

Regista:

Robert Aldrich

Writers:

Hugo Butler (writer)
Edward DeBlasio (writer)

Data di uscita:

15 novembre 1968 (West Germany)

Genere:

Drama

Slogan:

OVERNIGHT A STAR...OVER MANY NIGHTS A WOMAN!

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Possession | Beautiful Woman | Lesbian | Lesbianism | Actress

Recensioni degli utenti:

Kim Novak's Star Turn

Cast

Kim Novak	...	Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann
Peter Finch	...	Lewis Zarken
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

Alias:

Quando muore una stella (Italy) [it]

Durata:

130 min

Nazionalità:

USA

Lingua:

Inglese

Colore:

Colore (Metrocolor)

Sonoro:

Mono

Divieti:

West Germany:16 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved | USA:R

Luoghi delle riprese:

Grauman's Chinese Theater - 6925 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Associates & Aldrich Company, The

Curiosità:

This was Kim Novak's last starring role in an American-made feature film.

Citazioni:

Molly Luther: Free food, free drinks, free press.

Movie Connections:

Parodia di Vertigo (1958)

Colonna sonora:

Lylah

Kim Novak's Star Turn

Kim Novak was a real Movie Star with hits such as "Picnic" "Pal Joey" "Bell Book and Candle" "Man With The Golden Arm" " Middle Of The Night", "Strangers When We Meet" and Alfred Hitchcok's iconic "Vertigo". After leaving Columbia, Kim Novak made a few films in a row such as "Boys Night Out" at MGM Billy Wilder's "Kiss Me Stupid" with Martin at UA, the very fine remake of "Of Human Bondage" at MGM and Terence Young's frisky "Moll Flanders" at Paramount and was filming "Day of the Arrow" with David Niven for MGM and Filmways and fell of a horse, was injured, and had to leave that picture. Kim Novak then off the screen for 3 years in the mid-60'ssearching for a great returnproject found one in a major MGM production "The Legend of Lylah Clare"directed by red hot Robert Aldrich who had just had a sensational hitin "The Dirty Dozen". The combination of Robert Adrich the gloss of an MGM super production, and the box office bonanza known as Kim Novak should have produced a major hit movie which sadly was a major failure.

Kim Novak headlines a great cast of solid professionals such as Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Coral Browne, George Kennedy, Valentina Cortese, etc. and thefirst part of the movie is fine, very fine. It falls apart at the endand in fact Aldrich dubbed Kim Novak in some of the latter scenes-against her knowledge- and and ends weirdly with a dog commercial tothis day mystifies me.

Kim Novak astoundingly beautiful and as one reviewer noted 'was as close to perfection in the looks department' and gowned by a great Hollywood costumer Renie in fabulous outfits gave it her all and is very fine in this film. Aldrich who knew the Hollywood scene and had a great hit in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" fails here It is said that Kim Novak and Robert Aldrich never spoke after the movie premiered. Who could blame Kim Novak?