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Kim Novak

Kim Novak

Acting

1933-02-13 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

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.

Filmography(66)

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturasmovie

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

as Madeleine Elster (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2026 · 0.0

Kim Novak's Vertigomovie

Kim Novak's Vertigo

as Self · 2025 · 0.0

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebelmovie

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel

as Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee · 2023 · 7.0

Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60'smovie

Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's

as Self (archive footage) · 2022 · 0.0

Rat Packmovie

Rat Pack

as Self (archive footage) · 2022 · 9.0

I Am Alfred Hitchcockmovie

I Am Alfred Hitchcock

as Self (archive footage) · 2021 · 7.3

Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Memovie

Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me

as Self · 2017 · 6.9

Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinenmovie

Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen

as Self · 2016 · 0.0

Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festivalmovie

Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival

as · 2013 · 0.0

Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterweltenmovie

Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten

as Self (archive footage) · 2013 · 0.0

Hollywood sul Teveremovie

Hollywood sul Tevere

as · 2009 · 0.0

To Each His Own Cinemamovie

To Each His Own Cinema

as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage) · 2007 · 6.5

Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Premingermovie

Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger

as Herself · 2006 · 0.0

Hollywood Legendenmovie

Hollywood Legenden

as Self · 2004 · 4.5

Heart of the Festivalmovie

Heart of the Festival

as Self (archive footage) · 2002 · 6.5

Bride of Trailer Campmovie

Bride of Trailer Camp

as (archive footage) · 2001 · 0.0

Obsessed with Vertigomovie

Obsessed with Vertigo

as Self · 1997 · 7.1

Dark Galaxymovie

Dark Galaxy

as (archive footage) · 1993 · 0.0

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmakermovie

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as Molly (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1991 · 8.0

Liebestraummovie

Liebestraum

as Lillian Anderson Munnsen · 1991 · 5.4

The Childrenmovie

The Children

as Rose Sellars · 1990 · 4.9

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dreammovie

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream

as Self · 1990 · 7.0

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footagemovie

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1983 · 7.0

Malibumovie

Malibu

as Billie Farnsworth · 1983 · 3.8