Just as Hollywood producers and columnists spent months after the release of Robert Altman's 1990s movie business satire The Player trying to guess the real-life identities of its fictional characters, so they did the same in the late Sixties with this soap opera. Glamorous Kim Novak, America's number one box office star in 1956, chose the film and its dual roles for the lead actress as her comeback vehicle after a two year absence from screens following her brief marriage to British actor Richard Johnson, her co-star in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. She's excellent as a young Chicago actress (which she was in real life) and a legendary dead movie queen she's hired to play in a film biography. In the supporting cast, acting laurels go to fiery Italian actress Rossella Falk, and special mention is due to the fabulous gowns by Renie.


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