Novak plays a sexy starlet who gets a chance to play a flamboyant star of the 1930s who died mysteriously on her wedding night. The legend of lylah clare 1968 official trailer kim novak, peter finch movie hd a dictatorial film director finch hires an unknown actress novak to play the lead role in a planned movie. This account has reached the download cap, additional downloads subject to. One response to scared to death 1980 robotomisation says. The legend of lylah clare 1968 the movie database tmdb.
No one can touch robert aldrich when it comes to holding a mirror up to the selfabsorbed selfdeception of hollywood. Aldrichs acidic drama also lives in the harsh, unflattering shadow of two films similar enough to invite unkind comparisons. Watch the front row the legend of lylah clare the new. Kim novak, peter finch, ernest borgnine, milton selzer, rossella falk, gabrielle tinti, valentina cortese, lee meriwether. It was the inspiration for the 1968 kim novakrobert. The legend of lylah clare richard brody on robert aldrichs the legend of lylah clare 1968. The legend of lylah clare 1968 robert aldrich synopsis. The film was based on a 1962 dupont show of the week tv drama cowritten by wild in the streets creator robert thom a satire on hollywood, full of references to. The legend of lylah clare script spotlights the making of a film about lylah clare, a world famous pic star who died some time before under mysterious circumstances. The legend of lylah clare 1968 the meanderings of scott. The film stars peter finch, kim novak in multiple roles, ernest borgnine, michael murphy, and valentina cortese. Remarkably, sheean manages to find elsa brinkmann also novak, a beautiful woman who looks just. Barney hires director lewis zarkan peter finch, lylah s former husband, to. That aspect aside, legend is one contrived film in the worst possible sense.
At some point in the filming of lylah clare it was apparently decided to turn it into a spoof of those hollywooden melodramas about moviemaking, like the carpetbaggers or harlow. The legend of lylah clare by robert aldrich kim novak, peter. Cortese was born in milan to a family from stresa, piedmont. Kim novak peter finch coral browne valentina cortese ernest borgnine. The legend of lylah clare 1968 robert aldrich, kim novak, peter. Before the credits, manfriday langner milton selzer and sister becky jean carroll briefing ingenue elsa kim novak on the dead star shell be playing, in.
Best movies like the legend of lylah clare bestsimilar. The controversial the killing of sister george 1968 is an adaptation of the frank marcus play about an aging. She was married to gualtiero giori and nicola tufari. The legend of lylah clare, poster, us poster, kim novak, bottom from left. Its never been released on dvd, laserdisc or even videotape. Kim novak portrays an unknown chosen to star in a biopic of film goddess lylah clare, who died under mysterious circumstances on her wedding night. Remarkably, sheean manages to find elsa brinkmann also novak, a beautiful woman who looks just like lylah, and he sets about getting the movie off the ground. If you like the legend of lylah clare you are looking for movies about with hollywood, movie star, psychological thriller, love, lesbian, obsession and death themes of drama genre shot in usa. Like the burtontaylor boom, it provides its own grisly satisfaction. Original legend of lylah clare, the 1968 movie poster in. A sexy starlet resembles lylah clare, a flamboyant star of the thirties, who died mysteriously and tragically on her wedding night gets a chance to play her in a biographical film directed by lylahs reallife husband peter finch and history repeats itself as he falls for her reincarnation. Saint clare of assisi her legend and selected writings download. The legend of lylah clare 1968 stream and watch online.
The legend of lylah clare, aldrichs cyanidelaced 1968 valentine to hollywood, exists in the long, haunted shadow of faded stardom and abandoned dreams. Metrograph is a new manhattan movie theater devoted to screening archivequality 35mm prints and new films in state of. Legend of lylah clare, the movie clip but not for long. The legend of lylah clare, poster, us poster, kim novak, bottom. The legend of lylah clare begins as the story of a doeeyed innocent corrupted by the starmaking machinery, but ends as the story of a beautiful young actress who devolves, over the course of overheated minutes, into a drag queen. Among all of the sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, kim novak is one of the most interesting. Other articles where the legend of lylah clare is discussed. Overview 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. Released 1968, the legend of lylah clare stars kim novak, peter finch, ernest borgnine, milton selzer the r movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 10 min, and received a score of out of 100 on. Before the credits, manfriday langner milton selzer and sister becky jean carroll briefing ingenue elsa kim novak on the dead star shell be playing, in robert aldrichs the legend of lylah clare, 1968. Kim novaks hair and costumes look correct once more. Movieproducer barney sheean ernest borgnine hires elsa brinkmann, the living image of the late lylah, to star in a film based on ms. The undisputed charm of the city of florence comes from the fact that it has the highest concentration of works of art per square kilometers in any city and from the imperceptible hidden details, elements that can escape the eye at first glance, and even upon close inspection.
Bits of satire, supernatural elements, trendy lesbianism and symbolism muddy up this potboiler, which is almost always overwrought but never boring. Metrograph is a new manhattan movie theater devoted to screening archivequality 35mm prints and new films in stateof. Tagline for the legend of lylah clare kim novak returned to the screen after a threeyear absence with the 1968 gothic drama, the legend of lylah clare, making up for lost time by taking on two roles, a longdead hollywood sex symbol and the novice actress hired to play her. With kim novak, peter finch, ernest borgnine, milton selzer.
Michael murphy, robert aldrich, the legend of lylah clare 1968. Turns out she resembles a longdeceased movie queen named lylah clare and is quickly tapped to star in a picture of the actress doomed lifeto be directed by lylahs widower husband. Robert aldrichs the legend of lylah clare is an awful movie, but fairly enjoyable. Oct 04, 2011 two best actor academy award winners, peter finch as lylahs obsessed widower and ernest borgnine as a loutish mogul, help stir a heady plot that reveals secrets, compulsions, perversions and. Film star lylah clare is dead, but her legend lives on. Jan 16, 20 by the time robert aldrich made the insidehollywood melodrama the legend of lylah clare which i discuss in this clip, the director had already unleashed his bile at a decaying studio. A director peter finch puts an actress kim novak in the role of his dead moviequeen wife. When mgm executives finally screened the film, they decided to market it as being deliberately campy, but audiences in 1968 were not yet ready to embrace the idea of going to see something trashy on purpose, and the movie proved to be a boxoffice bomb, despite this trendsetting marketing ploy. Aldrichs 1962 classic what ever happened to baby jane. A renowned actress who died years earlier, lylah clare kim novak is the subject of a film masterminded by movie producer barney sheean ernest borgnine. When a naive young actress is chosen to star in a biopic of film goddess lylah clare, who died under mysterious circumstances on her wedding night. The legend of lylah clare 1968, which offered a harsh look at hollywood, was widely panned, though it later developed a cult following for its campiness.
The legend of lylah clare, in which kim novak plays both a fictional dead silentfilm star named lylah clare and elsa brinkmann, a young actress who looks remarkably like her, was made just as the studio system and its watchdog, the production code administration, were crumbling. The legend of lylah clare dvdr 1968 warner archive. Movieproducer barney sheean ernest borgnine hires elsa brinkmann kim novak, the living image of the late lylah, to star in a film based on ms. Barney hires director lewis zarkan peter finch, lylahs former husband, to. If u find any movie with download link unavailable leave a comment under that movie i. The legend of lylah clare is a 1968 american drama film released by metrogoldwynmayer and directed by robert aldrich. Aldrich apparently began the movie without getting quite straight what he intended to do. The legend of lylah clare 1968 was a failure in the sense of a box office hit it could have been, even with the collaboration of novaks star quality, the studio mgms money machine, the successes aldrich had with the dirty dozen in 1967 and the stellar casting, it came across as an convoluted oddity. The legend of lylah clare 1968 robert aldrich, kim novak, peter finch, ernest borgnine. By the time robert aldrich made the insidehollywood melodrama the legend of lylah clare which i discuss in this clip, the director had already unleashed his bile at a decaying studio. The legend of lylah clare is a 1968 american drama film released by metro goldwynmayer. A dictatorial film director peter finch hires an unknown actress kim novak to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great hollywood star. Notorious for being one of the first dramatic feature films greeted with outright laughter upon its premiere, mgm has taken great pains to bury the legend of lylah clare. Tuesday weld holds a press conference in a bubble bath in the 1963 television play the legend of lylah clare, a dupont show of the week.
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