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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, inc…
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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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Kim Novak's Filmography
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Kim Novak's Vertigo
as Self
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
as Madeleine Elster (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
as Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee
Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's
as Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
as Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
as Self
Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen
as Self
Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
No Poster
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood sul Tevere
To Each His Own Cinema
as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
No Poster
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
as Self
No Poster
Hollywood Legenden
as Self
Heart of the Festival
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Bride of Trailer Camp
as (archive footage)
Obsessed with Vertigo
as Self
Dark Galaxy
as (archive footage)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Molly (archive footage) (uncredited)
Liebestraum
as Lillian Anderson Munnsen
The Children
as Rose Sellars
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
as Self
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Malibu
as Billie Farnsworth
The Mirror Crack'd
as Lola Brewster
Just a Gigolo
as Helga von Kaiserling
The White Buffalo
as Poker Jenny Schermerhorn
Satan's Triangle
as Eva
Tales That Witness Madness
as Auriol (segment "Luau")
The Third Girl from the Left
as Gloria Joyce
The Great Bank Robbery
as Sister Lyda Kebanov (forger)
The Legend of Lylah Clare
as Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann / Elsa Campbell
Lionpower from MGM
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as Moll Flanders
Kiss Me, Stupid
as Polly the Pistol
Of Human Bondage
as Mildred Rogers
MGM 40th Anniversary
Boys' Night Out
as Cathy
The Notorious Landlady
as Carly Hardwicke
Pepe
as Kim Novak
Strangers When We Meet
as Margaret 'Maggie' Gault
Middle of the Night
as Betty Preisser
Bell, Book and Candle
as Gillian Holroyd
The All-Star Christmas Show
as Self
Vertigo
as Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton
Pal Joey
as Linda English
Jeanne Eagels
as Jeanne Eagels
The Eddy Duchin Story
as Marjorie Oelrichs Duchin
The Man with the Golden Arm
as Molly
Picnic
as Madge Owens
5 Against the House
as Kay Greylek
Son of Sinbad
as Harem Girl
Phffft
as Janis
A Star Is Born World Premiere
as Self
Pushover
as Lona McLane
The French Line
as Model (uncredited)
No Poster
The Fall: Part II
as Self
No Poster
The Fall: Part I
as Self