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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(r) 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.
Original Release
08/21/1968
US Release
08/21/1968
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Kim Novak | Elsa Campbell / Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann |
| Peter Finch | Louie Flack / Lewis Zarken |
| Ernest Borgnine | Barney Sheean |
| Milton Selzer | Bart Langner |
| Rossella Falk | Rossella |
| Gabriele Tinti | Paolo |
| Valentina Cortese | Countess Bozo Bedoni |
| Jean Carroll | Becky Langner |
| Michael Murphy | Mark Peter Sheean |
| Coral Browne | Molly Luther |
Directors
Writers
Robert Thom, Edward DeBlasio, Hugo Butler, Jean Rouverol
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Kim Novak | Elsa Campbell / Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann |
| Peter Finch | Louie Flack / Lewis Zarken |
| Ernest Borgnine | Barney Sheean |
| Milton Selzer | Bart Langner |
| Rossella Falk | Rossella |
| Gabriele Tinti | Paolo |
| Valentina Cortese | Countess Bozo Bedoni |
| Jean Carroll | Becky Langner |
| Michael Murphy | Mark Peter Sheean |
| Coral Browne | Molly Luther |
| Lee Meriwether | Young Girl |
| James Lanphier | 1st Legman |
| Robert Ellenstein | Mike |
| Nick Dennis | Nick |
| Dave Willock | Cameraman |
| Peter Bravos | Butler |
| Ellen Corby | Script Girl |
| Michael Fox | Announcer |
| Hal Maguire | 2nd Legman |
| Tom Patty | Bedoni's Escort |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Robert Aldrich | Producer |
| Walter Blake | Producer |
