The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) | |
| Director(s) | Robert Aldrich |
| Producer(s) | Robert Aldrich |
| Top Genres | Drama |
| Top Topics | |
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The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) was a Drama Film directed by Robert Aldrich and produced by Robert Aldrich.
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Molly Luther:
Free food, free drinks, free press.
Barney Sheean: I make movies, not films!
Lylah Clare: Do you really believe that you have a licence to ask any dirty question that slimes into that snake's nest between your ears? And nobody challenges you. Why? Because they are gentleman?
[gutteral laugh]
Lylah Clare: I'll tell you why.
[gesture with Molly Luther's snatched crutch]
Lylah Clare: Molly Luther's magic wand. It keeps keeps her safe from
[two thumps against Molly Luther's leg brace]
Lylah Clare: ...dragons!
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Barney Sheean: I make movies, not films!
Lylah Clare: Do you really believe that you have a licence to ask any dirty question that slimes into that snake's nest between your ears? And nobody challenges you. Why? Because they are gentleman?
[gutteral laugh]
Lylah Clare: I'll tell you why.
[gesture with Molly Luther's snatched crutch]
Lylah Clare: Molly Luther's magic wand. It keeps keeps her safe from
[two thumps against Molly Luther's leg brace]
Lylah Clare: ...dragons!
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Facts about
This was Kim Novak's last starring role in an American-made feature film.
When Kim Novak walks along Hollywood Blvd, a theater she passes by is playing The Dirty Dozen, 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.
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.
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When Kim Novak walks along Hollywood Blvd, a theater she passes by is playing The Dirty Dozen, 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.
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.
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