Drama / Crime / Mystery /

Score: 61%( 26 votes )

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

Cast:

Kim Novak
Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann / Elsa Campbell

Peter Finch
Lewis Zarken / Louie Flack

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

Robert Ellenstein
Mike

Ellen Corby
Script Girl

George Kennedy
Matt Burke

Dick Miller
Reporter at Press Party

Al Bain
Crew Member

Tom Palmer
Press Party Guest

William Beckley
Zarkan

Jan Peters
Prop Man

Queenie Smith
Hairdresser

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
1st Legman

Nick Dennis
Nick

Dave Willock
Cameraman

Peter Bravos
Butler

Michael Fox
Announcer

Hal Maguire
2nd Legman

Vernon Scott
Vernon Scott

Sidney Skolsky
Sidney Skolsky