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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.
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
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
Queenie Smith
Hairdresser
John Alvin
Accountant (uncredited)
Ernest Anderson
Hot Dog Man (uncredited)
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
Stagehand (uncredited)
Robert Cornthwaite
Studio Photo Archivist (uncredited)
Billy Curtis
Clown (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Brothel Patron in Film (uncredited)
James McEachin
Reporter (uncredited)
Monty O'Grady
Press Party Guest (uncredited)
Cosmo Sardo
Photographer (uncredited)
Max Wagner
Reporter (uncredited)
Victoria Zinny
Reporter (uncredited)
James Lanphier
1st Legman
Nick Dennis
Nick
Dave Willock
Cameraman
Michael Fox
Announcer