Ernest Borgnine's vulgarian studio boss character is accused by one of his employees of "always putting your initials on everything around here, including the toilet seats!" This is undoubtedly a reference about Like the Burton-Taylor Boom, it provides its own grisly satisfaction: You can have fun watching it be so bad.

You stupid cow!” The ... 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 masterpiece "Vertigo". "Legend of Lylah Clare" soundtrack. Starring : Kim Novak - Peter Finch - Coral Browne - Valentina Cortese - Ernest Borgnine. Please check your inbox for Please confirm or enter it below to complete your profile. When she finally spoke, she claimed that director Robert Aldrich had Novak's dialogue as Lylah dubbed by Hildegarde Knef, without Novak's consent or knowledge. The Legend of Lylah Clare - DVD-R (1968) for $9.60 from OLDIES.com Drama Warner Archive Collection Series 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, she becomes consumed by the identity of the dead star. When she attended a screening and heard the dubbing, Novak said of the experience, "God, it was so humiliating!" USED BY Certificate: Passed In this remake, Lylah's accent suggests the character as played by Kim Novak is meant to be more like Marlene Dietrich and/or Greta Garbo. ARRANGEMENT WITH PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. A wealthy woman, trying to discourage a former boyfriend from pursuing her, hires a young songwriter who needs money to pay off his gambling debts to pretend to be her boyfriend. At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide. The life of a soap opera actress begins to unravel as she fears her character will be written out of the series. No offense, I’m very fond of cows.” That line is echoed in another 1968 auteur film, Robert Aldrich’s Aldrich’s barbed excoriation of the American film industry builds on the toxic Hollywood takes of Aldrich throws the whole book of stylistic tricks at

Like the Burton-Taylor " Boom," it provides its own grisly satisfaction: You can have fun watching it be so bad. Overview of The Legend of Lylah Clare, 1968, directed by Robert Aldrich, with Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, at Turner Classic Movies

Although this was her first film in three years, due to a riding accident and a lack of interest in returning to films, 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 Novak’s star quality, the studio MGM’s money machine, the successes Aldrich had with The Dirty Dozen in 1967 and the stellar casting, it came across as an convoluted oddity. The "Barkwell" commercial is a fitting end to this movie (one of many - but not enough - that have taken on the dog-eat-dog world of Hollywood)... You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. At one point, the character of gossip maven Molly Luther asks: "Aren't you borrowing rather heavily from Sunset Blvd?" That line is echoed in another 1968 auteur film, Robert Aldrich’s The Legend of Lylah Clare, in which Peter Finch’s blowhard director character, Zarkan (possibly Aldrich’s self-lacerating partial self-portrait), snaps at the emotionally exposed actress Elsa (Kim Novak) with “Feel? This film never got a cinema release in the UK, although it was shown at the National Film Theatre in London in the 1970s, and turned up twice on Channel Four television in the 1980s and 90s.

LEONARD MALTIN CLASSIC MOVIE GUIDE, COPYRIGHT 2005, 2010. In the original TV play, the Lylah Clare movie-star character, played by Tuesday Weld, was generally thought to be a veiled portrait of Marilyn Monroe, who had then died only recently.