Kim Novak

Born: 1933-02-13 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known For: Acting

Biography

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

2026

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas as Madeleine Elster (archive footage) (uncredited)

2025

Kim Novak's Vertigo as Self

2023

Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel as Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee

2022

Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's as Self (archive footage)

2021

I Am Alfred Hitchcock as Self (archive footage)

2007

To Each His Own Cinema as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)

2006

Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger as Herself

2004

Hollywood Legenden as Self

2002

Heart of the Festival as Self (archive footage)

2001

Bride of Trailer Camp as (archive footage)

1997

Obsessed with Vertigo as Self

1993

Dark Galaxy as (archive footage)

1991

Liebestraum as Lillian Anderson Munnsen
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Molly (archive footage) (uncredited)

1990

The Children as Rose Sellars
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream as Self

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Malibu as Billie Farnsworth

1981

Falcon Crest as Kit Marlowe

1980

The Mirror Crack'd as Lola Brewster

1978

Just a Gigolo as Helga von Kaiserling

1977

Please Turn the Page as Self
The White Buffalo as Poker Jenny Schermerhorn

1975

Satan's Triangle as Eva

1973

Tales That Witness Madness as Auriol (segment "Luau")
The Third Girl from the Left as Gloria Joyce

1971

V.I.P. Schaukel as Self

1969

The Great Bank Robbery as Sister Lyda Kebanov (forger)

1968

The Legend of Lylah Clare as Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann / Elsa Campbell

1967

Lionpower from MGM as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1965

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders as Moll Flanders

1964

Kiss Me, Stupid as Polly the Pistol
Of Human Bondage as Mildred Rogers
MGM 40th Anniversary

1962

The Notorious Landlady as Carly Hardwicke
Boys' Night Out as Cathy

1960

Pepe as Kim Novak
Strangers When We Meet as Margaret 'Maggie' Gault

1959

Stars in the Ring as Self
Middle of the Night as Betty Preisser

1958

Vertigo as Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton
Bell, Book and Candle as Gillian Holroyd
The All-Star Christmas Show as Self

1957

Jeanne Eagels as Jeanne Eagels
Pal Joey as Linda English

1956

The Steve Allen Show as Self
Cinépanorama as Self
The Eddy Duchin Story as Marjorie Oelrichs Duchin

1955

The Man with the Golden Arm as Molly
Picnic as Madge Owens
Son of Sinbad as Harem Girl
5 Against the House as Kay Greylek

1954

Reflets de Cannes as Self
Phffft as Janis
Pushover as Lona McLane
A Star Is Born World Premiere as Self
The French Line as Model (uncredited)

1953

The Oscars as Self

1950

What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest

1948

The Ed Sullivan Show as Self