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From : foxter65
Added: Nov 4, 2009
Film star Lylah Clare is dead, but her legend lives on. Movie-producer Barney Sheean (Ernest Borgnine) hires Elsa Brinkmann (Kim Novak), the living image of the late Lylah, to star in a film based on Ms. Clare's life. Barney hires director Lewis Zarkan (Peter Finch), Lylah's former husband, to transform the talentless Elsa into a facsimile of the deceased screen queen. Elsa not only learns to imitate Lylah but, at crucial junctures, becomes the dead woman. While restaging the accident that killed Lylah, the obsessed Zarkan deliberately drives Elsa to her doom -- and in so doing reveals his complicity in the death of his wife. The film ends with Lylah's onetime housekeeper (Rosella Falk), gun in hand, lying in wait for Zarkan to return home while her TV blasts forth a grotesque (and possibly symbolic) dog-food commercial. A trash masterpiece, Legend of Lylah Claire works so hard at vilifying the Old Hollywood (there's even a vicious Hedda Hopper caricature) that it's a wonder the actors could keep a straight face. The film was based on a 1962 Dupont Show of the Week TV drama co-written by Wild in the Streets creator Robert Thom. Kim Novak - Lylah Clare/Elsa Brinkman Peter Finch - Lewis Zarkan 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 - 1st Legman Robert Ellenstein - Mike Nick Dennis - Nick Dave Willock - Cameraman Coral Browne - Molly Luther Peter Bravos - Butler Ellen Corby - Script Girl Michael Fox - Announcer Hal Maguire - 2nd Legman Tom Patty - Bedoni's Escort Queenie Smith - Hairdresser Sidney Skolsky - Himself Barbara Ann Warkmeister - Aerialists William Aldrich - Assistant M.C. Danny Borzage - Clown George Kennedy - Matt Burke in ANNA CHRISTIE, 1930 Vernon Scott - Himself
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