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product_id: 17510225
title: "The Legend Of Lylah Clare"
brand: "kim novakpeter finchrobert aldrich"
price: "R342"
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reviews_count: 13
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# The Legend Of Lylah Clare

**Brand:** kim novakpeter finchrobert aldrich
**Price:** R342
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- **What is this?** The Legend Of Lylah Clare by kim novakpeter finchrobert aldrich
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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 naive young actress becomes consumed by the identity of the dead star.

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## Customer Reviews

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    Accidental Comedy Gold
  

*by R***K on Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2014*

Here's the movie that's so campy it makes Showgirls look like straightforward drama. Everything about Lylah Clare is awful and immensely entertaining. Kim Novak's performance is absurd - there's no other word for it. Going from zero to zany in six seconds flat, Novak embodies the ghost of Lylah, who apparently was a muppet show-style parody of Marlene Deitrich (only with a variable Swedish/Italian accent dubbed over by a horrendous voice actor!). The flashbacks of Lylah's demise are cause for laughter, with bizarre distorted audio, trippy psychedelic visual effects,and Ms. Novak's dim-witted, gaping gob planted in the corner, vaguely staring into space.The plotting is ridiculous - Lylah was a popular actress who died young, her doppelgänger shows up to take her place and is seemingly possessed by Lylah to such a degree that they wind up dying more or less the same way. But don't even get me started on how delightfully over the top and bizarre the doppelgänger's death scene is. It's enough to make you laugh so hard you might vomit. The sad clowns! Oh dear.Anyway, Lylah's husband (Peter Finch, playing the role so catty and flamboyant that it makes his actually-gay character from Sunday Bloody Sunday look straight by comparison) is a faded film director who decides to make a comeback by hiring the lookalike, Elsa, to star in a movie detailing Lylah's life story. Only problem is that Lylah was so imperfect that the story of the film is almost fictional. Wouldn't want to mention the lesbianism, the drugs, etc. after all. Conveniently, since Lylah and Finch were married, that means that the movie we are watching gets to repurpose the obvious soundstage set of their house as a soundstage set within the film itself (just set up a light rig in the corner and we can say we're ont he backlot now!). It also gives them an excuse to show us the soundstage they're filming on and the crew working there and claim it's all for the movie within the movie. In reality, it's just the cheapest thing you've ever seen done.The whole thing inexorably snowballs into a larger and larger disaster as the acting gets hammier, the directing gets weirder, and the script gets shredded amidst Ms. Novak's Tazmanian-devil style scene chewing. This is one of the dirt worst movies to ever come out of Hollywood, but it's also a true gem for anyone of the MST3K persuasion. Bring your friends over, put this on, and let the jokes fly!

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A Macabre and Tacky  Melodrama...
  

*by M***L on Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2020*

Thoroughly strange  send-up (?)  satire (?)  of old Hollywood and its' denizens in the movie industry. Kim Novak was a trifle too old to play the unknown "ingenue" who is made over and virtually brainwashed  to play the lead in a big Hollywood biopic about a dead movie star, Lylah Clare.  Everyone wants a piece of the pie and Novak.  Trashy and exploitive do not begin to describe this awful over-indulgence  in sleaze.  Hard to believe Robert Aldrich directed this cheap pic.  Terrible waste of Novak and all involved. The disc is fine but the movie isn't. But to each their own.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Behind the Scenes in 1960's Hollywood!
  

*by D***E on Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2013*

I love Kim Novak! I think she is arguably one of Hollywood's sexiest actresses. I love Kim Novak movies. She may not be a Merle Streep; but I like her as an actress.Less arguably are the talents of Robert Aldrich, the director. These two together, plus other talented cast members, provided me with an 'edge-of-my-seat' story of what goes on behind the scenes in 1960's Hollywood. Whether movies, television or the Kardashian family, there is LOTS of drama behind the scenes! I enjoy the behind-the-scenes stories (on today's DVDs and the "scandal rags") as much as the productions themselves ... and sometimes, moreso! This movie provides both; since it is an entertaining MOVIE about what goes on BEHIND THE SCENES. So, I got two for the price of one.Also, I believe the story this movie tells is as appropriate to today's entertainment fields as it was when it was made.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-18*