Kim Novak
Actor
- Born
- February 13, 1933 (age 93) · 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.
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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.
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Known for
Vertigo
May 28, 1958
The Man with the Golden Arm
December 26, 1955
Bell, Book and Candle
December 25, 1958
The Mirror Crack'd
February 6, 1980
Kiss Me, Stupid
December 22, 1964
To Each His Own Cinema
October 31, 2007
The White Buffalo
May 1, 1977
Picnic
November 18, 1955
Pal Joey
October 25, 1957
Pushover
July 14, 1954
The Notorious Landlady
April 13, 1962
Tales That Witness Madness
October 31, 1973
Acting58
- 2026Kim Novak's Vertigo as Self
- 2026Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas as Madeleine Elster (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2023Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel as Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee
- 2022Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's as Self (archive footage)
- 2022Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
- 2021I Am Alfred Hitchcock as Self (archive footage)
- 2017Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me as Self
- 2016Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen as Self
- 2013Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival