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Kim Novak
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…
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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.
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2026
Kim Novak's Vertigo
Movie Self
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2026
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Movie Madeleine Elster (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2023
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Movie Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee
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2022
Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Rat Pack
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2017
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
Movie Self
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2016
Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen
Movie Self
- 2013
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2013
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
Hollywood sul Tevere
Movie
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2007
To Each His Own Cinema
Movie Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
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2006
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
Movie Herself
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2004
Hollywood Legenden
Movie Self
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2002
Heart of the Festival
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2001
Bride of Trailer Camp
Movie (archive footage)
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1997
Obsessed with Vertigo
Movie Self
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1993
Dark Galaxy
Movie (archive footage)
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1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Movie Molly (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1991
Liebestraum
Movie Lillian Anderson Munnsen
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1990
The Children
Movie Rose Sellars
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1990
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Movie Self
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1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1983
Malibu
Movie Billie Farnsworth
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1981
Falcon Crest
TV show Kit Marlowe
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1980
The Mirror Crack'd
Movie Lola Brewster
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1978
Just a Gigolo
Movie Helga von Kaiserling
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1977
The White Buffalo
Movie Poker Jenny Schermerhorn
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1977
Please Turn the Page
TV show Self
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1975
Satan's Triangle
Movie Eva
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1973
Tales That Witness Madness
Movie Auriol (segment "Luau")
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1973
The Third Girl from the Left
Movie Gloria Joyce
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1971
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV show Self
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1969
The Great Bank Robbery
Movie Sister Lyda Kebanov (forger)
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1968
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Movie Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann / Elsa Campbell
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1967
Lionpower from MGM
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1965
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Movie Moll Flanders
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1964
Kiss Me, Stupid
Movie Polly the Pistol
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1964
Of Human Bondage
Movie Mildred Rogers
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1964
MGM 40th Anniversary
Movie
