The Legend Of Lylah Clare

1968 • 129 minuts

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No one can touch Robert Aldrich when it comes to holding a mirror up to the self-absorbed self-deception of Hollywood. The director of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and The Big Knife turns the lens again to Tinseltown with this deliciously overheated mystery-melodrama. 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. Two Best Actor Academy Award® winners,* Peter Finch as Lylah's obsessed widower and Ernest Borgnine as a loutish mogul, help stir a heady plot that reveals secrets, compulsions, perversions and murder as the naïve young actress becomes consumed by the identity of the dead star.

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Vertigo plus Rashomon divided by Sunset Boulevard equals Lylah Clare. Or something very similar to that equation. The movie is a decent watch. But at the same time, it isn't a fantastic flick, either. I had a hurdle to overcome when Kim Novak transitioned from Elsa to Lylah; it looked like she was wearing a bobbed wig the entire time. I couldn't buy into its believability.