| Legend of Lylah Clare, The (1968) | Kim Novak, Rossella Falk, Jean Carroll (holder) "A movie's movie for smoking fetishists. Three lovely ladies, three distinctive smoking styles. Falk smokes in most of her early scenes, dragging constantly and displaying a nose exhale or two. Carroll is a Hollywood P.R. gal, who always makes sure her cigarette is in a holder. She must be spending a lot of time with the starlets, because she smokes with great verve and glamour. And the lovely Kim Novak plays an ingenue actress who has to smoke in a scene while driving. She's unaccustomed to smoking, so she just mimes unlit. But she later turns into a femme fatale seductress and smokes provocatively and expertly in front of a vanity mirror, where we see her from a 3/4 profile. In addition there's a sophisticated extra smoking in the near background at the Hollywood Brown Derby. All in all an amazing find. I'm surprised no one's uncovered it 'til now."
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