Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 13, 1933
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Credits
68 titles
Kim Novak
Biography
Marilyn Pauline Novak (born February 13, 1933), known professionally as Kim Novak, is an American retired film and television actress. She began her career in 1954 after signing with Columbia Pictures. There, she became a successful actress, starring in a string of movies, among them the critically acclaimed Picnic (1955). She later starred in such popular successes as The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Pal Joey (1957). However, she is perhaps best known today for her "dual role" as both Judy Barton and Madeleine Elster in Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Vertigo (1958). Novak was popular in box office popularity polls, and she starred opposite several top leading men of the era, including James Stewart, William Holden, Frank Sinatra, Tyrone Power, and Kirk Douglas. Although still young, her career declined in the early 1960s, and after several years in a series of lackluster films, she withdrew from acting in 1966. She has only sporadically returned since. She later returned to the screen in The Mirror Crack'd (1980), and had a regular role on the prime time series Falcon Crest (1986–87). After a disappointing experience during the filming of Liebestraum (1991), she has permanently retired from acting, stating she has no desire to return. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kim Novak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Madeleine Elster (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kim Novak's Vertigo
Self
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee
Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's
Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
Self
Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen
Self
Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
To Each His Own Cinema
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
Herself
Hollywood Legenden
Self
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
Bride of Trailer Camp
(archive footage)
Obsessed with Vertigo
Self
Dark Galaxy
(archive footage)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Molly (archive footage) (uncredited)
Liebestraum
Lillian Anderson Munnsen
The Children
Rose Sellars
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Self
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Malibu
Billie Farnsworth
Falcon Crest
Kit Marlowe
The Mirror Crack'd
Lola Brewster
Just a Gigolo
Helga von Kaiserling
The White Buffalo
Poker Jenny Schermerhorn
Please Turn the Page
Self
Satan's Triangle
Eva
Tales That Witness Madness
Auriol (segment "Luau")
The Third Girl from the Left
Gloria Joyce
V.I.P. Schaukel
Self
The Great Bank Robbery
Sister Lyda Kebanov (forger)
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann / Elsa Campbell
Lionpower from MGM
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders
Kiss Me, Stupid
Polly the Pistol
Of Human Bondage
Mildred Rogers
MGM 40th Anniversary
Boys' Night Out
Cathy
The Notorious Landlady
Carly Hardwicke
Pepe
Kim Novak
Strangers When We Meet
Margaret 'Maggie' Gault
Middle of the Night
Betty Preisser
Stars in the Ring
Self
Bell, Book and Candle
Gillian Holroyd
The All-Star Christmas Show
Self
Vertigo
Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton
Pal Joey
Linda English