The Legend of Lylah Clare

Overnight, she became a star...Over many nights, she became a legend.

A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

Drama Crime Mystery

Kim Novak

(Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann / Elsa Campbell)

Peter Finch

(Lewis Zarken / Louie Flack)

Ernest Borgnine

(Barney Sheean)

Milton Selzer

Rossella Falk

Gabriele Tinti

Valentina Cortese

(Countess Bozo Bedoni)

Jean Carroll

(Becky Langner)

Michael Murphy

(Mark Peter Sheean)

Coral Browne

Lee Meriwether

Robert Ellenstein

Ellen Corby

George Kennedy

Dick Miller

(Reporter at Press Party)

Al Bain

Tom Palmer

(Press Party Guest)

William Beckley

Jan Peters

Queenie Smith

John Alvin

(Accountant (uncredited))

Ernest Anderson

(Hot Dog Man (uncredited))

Noble 'Kid' Chissell

(Stagehand (uncredited))

Gene Chronopoulos

(Reporter (uncredited))

Robert Cornthwaite

(Studio Photo Archivist (uncredited))

Billy Curtis

(Clown (uncredited))

Duke Fishman

(Crew Member (uncredited))

Rex Holman

(Young Man (uncredited))

John Indrisano

(Studio Grip (uncredited))

Kenner G. Kemp

(Brothel Patron in Film (uncredited))

James McEachin

(Reporter (uncredited))

Hans Moebus

(Minor Role (uncredited))

Monty O'Grady

(Press Party Guest (uncredited))

Joe Ploski

(German Bartender in Film (uncredited))

Cosmo Sardo

(Photographer (uncredited))

Bernard Sell

(Reporter (uncredited))

Max Wagner

(Reporter (uncredited))

Victoria Zinny

(Reporter (uncredited))

James Lanphier

Nick Dennis

Dave Willock

Peter Bravos

Michael Fox

Hal Maguire

Vernon Scott

Sidney Skolsky

(Sidney Skolsky)