The Legend of Lylah Clare

The Legend of Lylah Clare

1968 film by Robert Aldrich
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The Legend of Lylah Clare is a 1968 American drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Robert Aldrich. The film stars Peter Finch, Kim Novak (in multiple roles), Ernest Borgnine, Michael Murphy, and Valentina Cortese. The film was based on a 1963 DuPont Show of the Week TV drama of the same name co-written by Wild in the Streets creator Robert Thom.

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Robert Aldrich
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1963 teleplay by
Edward DeBlasio and
Robert Thom
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Frank De Vol
Song ("Lylah") words & music:
Frank De Vol and
Sibylle Siegfried
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1968, original) Warner Home Video (2011, DVD)
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Release date
  • November 16, 1968 (1968-11-16)
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130 minutes
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United States
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English
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Budget
$3,490,000
Box office
33,798 admissions (France)

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Lewis Zarken: (Talking about choosing a stage name for Elsa) Elsa Brinkmann. "John Foster Brinksmanship." It's horrible. We'll have to change your name.
Lylah Clare: Thank you, but I'm happy with the name I have.
Lewis Zarken: Well, I'm not! And neither will the public be! Anyway, what's in a name? Why are you so sensitive? If it's any consolation to you, I rejoiced in the name of "Flack." Louie Flack, F-L-A-C-K, Flack. How does *that* grab you? Then one day I saw this magician: "Zarkan the Magnificent." He was a terrible act. I think he finished up cutting his throat in a Hungarian boarding house. Anyway, I lifted his name. Sounds a bit like a Transylvanian pox doctor, but it serves to impress the natives. We'll do the same for you.
  • This film is listed among the 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John WIlson`s book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
  • When Kim Novak walks along Hollywood Blvd, a theater she passes by is playing The Dirty Dozen (1967), a film Robert Aldrich made a year earlier, and whose commercial success made it possible for the director to start his own production company and make movies like this.
  • Last screenplay written by Hugo Butler, who had been black-listed by Hollywood and exiled himself to Mexico during the 1950s.
  • 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 box office bomb despite this trend-setting marketing ploy.
  • This was Kim Novak`s last starring role in an American-made feature film.

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