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Kim Novak: 10 essential films
Kim Novak’s time at the top of Hollywood was brief. Only four years passed between her breakthrough in Pushover () and her career peak in Vertigo () , and while she’d still have excellent performances ahead of her after that, by the mids her films had become sporadic and their quality erratic.
Still, she squeezed a lot into her short stay at the top. Arriving as one of many starlets in mids Hollywood primed to be the next Marilyn Monroe-esque blonde bombshell, like Monroe she soon proved there was much more to her than her dazzling beauty by delivering deft, captivating work in a string of comedies and dramas. During the height of her success, in whatever she appeared, Novak possessed an enigmatic quality that brought an intriguing interiority to her often underwritten characters.
Never all that enamoured with movie stardom, she’d leave acting permanently after a bad experience on ’s Liebestraum, to concentrate on her true love, painting. Howev
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Kim Novak
American actress (born )
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| Born | Marilyn Pauline Novak () February 13, (age&#;92) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Alma&#;mater | School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
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Marilyn Pauline "Kim" Novak (born February 13, ) is an American retired actress and painter. Her contributions to cinema have been honored with two Golden Globe Awards, an Honorary Golden Bear, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Novak began her career in after signing a contract with Columbia Pictures, and quickly became one of Hollywood's top box office stars, appearing in Picnic (), The Man with the Golden Arm (), and Pal Joey (). She gained prominence for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Vertigo (), which is recognized as one of
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Kim Novak: Reluctant Goddess
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Novak became a model while in Los Angeles, and then made a cameo in the Jane Russell film The French Line. Very quickly, she was discovered and put into Columbia Pictures' starmaking struktur under the studio's svengali Harry Cohn.
After a few minor roles to cut her teeth, she was given a couple of major roles in that got her star rocketing off the ground: as the beauty queen Madge in Picnic, opposite William Holden; and as Molly, the flickvän of Frank Sinatra's drug addict character in The Man with the Golden Arm. Both of these roles were well received by audiences and critics, and a year later she was the leading box office starlet in Hollywood.
Her quick rise to stardom came with the restrictions of Columbia's rigid system. Probably