Review of Lillie

Lillie (1978)
Paste Jewelry
25 January 2004
Warning: Spoilers
Spoilers herein.

TeeVee demands filler, the longer the better, as long as some semblance of a story is present. This one is just like `A Woman of Substance:' a redhaired woman survives all sorts of setbacks to excel in a male dominated world. The hook is her character: shamelessly sexual and headstrong.

Add some costume texture and you can eat up 9 hours of space.

If you have the stomach for it - or just need to fill time - check out the implicit folding: this is a film which is superficial (costume) beauty repurposed for TeeVee and is about a professional beauty who repurposed her status from society hooker to stage celebrity.

Historically what we have is the first such engineering, a template that Hollywood would adopt with relish. Was Lillie the trailblazer for Clara Bow? Probably.

Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
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