Kim Novak
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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.
Known for
Credits
Vertigo (1958)
as Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton
Lionpower from MGM (1967)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
as Lola Brewster
The White Buffalo (1977)
as Poker Jenny Schermerhorn
Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
as Gillian Holroyd
Pushover (1954)
as Lona McLane
Heart of the Festival (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Middle of the Night (1959)
as Betty Preisser
Picnic (1955)
as Madge Owens
The Notorious Landlady (1962)
as Carly Hardwicke
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
as Margaret 'Maggie' Gault
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
as Polly the Pistol
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
as Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann / Elsa Campbell
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
as Molly
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas (2026)
as Madeleine Elster (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Great Bank Robbery (1969)
as Sister Lyda Kebanov (forger)
Boys' Night Out (1962)
as Cathy
Liebestraum (1991)
as Lillian Anderson Munnsen
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Obsessed with Vertigo (1997)
as Self
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
as Marjorie Oelrichs Duchin
Of Human Bondage (1964)
as Mildred Rogers
Hollywood sul Tevere (2009)
Actor
Phffft (1954)
as Janis
Pal Joey (1957)
as Linda English
Satan's Triangle (1975)
as Eva
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
as Moll Flanders
Pepe (1960)
as Kim Novak
Just a Gigolo (1978)
as Helga von Kaiserling
Kim Novak's Vertigo (2025)
as Self
I Am Alfred Hitchcock (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Children (1990)
as Rose Sellars
Dark Galaxy (1993)
as (archive footage)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
as Molly (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Legenden (2004)
as Self
Tales That Witness Madness (1973)
as Auriol (segment "Luau")
Jeanne Eagels (1957)
as Jeanne Eagels
The French Line (1954)
as Model (uncredited)
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me (2017)
as Self
Son of Sinbad (1955)
as Harem Girl
Rat Pack (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
5 Against the House (1955)
as Kay Greylek
MGM 40th Anniversary (1964)
Actor
Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen (2016)
as Self
Bride of Trailer Camp (2001)
as (archive footage)
A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954)
as Self
The All-Star Christmas Show (1958)
as Self
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger (2006)
as Herself
The Third Girl from the Left (1973)
as Gloria Joyce
Malibu (1983)
as Billie Farnsworth
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel (2023)
as Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream (1990)
as Self
Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten (2013)
as Self (archive footage)
Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival (2013)
Actor