Kim Novak
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.
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Movies (45)
Kim Novak's Vertigo
as Self
2025
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
as Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee
2023
Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
2022
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
as Self
2021
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
as Self
2017
Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen
as Self
2016
Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
2013
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
as Self (archive footage)
2013
To Each His Own Cinema
as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
2007
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
as Herself
2006
Hollywood Legenden
as Self
2004
Bride of Trailer Camp
as (archive footage)
2001
Obsessed with Vertigo
as Self
1997
Dark Galaxy
as (archive footage)
1993
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Molly (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
Liebestraum
as Lillian Anderson Munnsen
1991
The Children
as Rose Sellars
1990
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
as Self
1990
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Notre Dame de la Croisette
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Malibu
as Billie Farnsworth
1983
The Mirror Crack'd
as Lola Brewster
1980
Just a Gigolo
as Helga von Kaiserling
1978
The White Buffalo
as Poker Jenny Schermerhorn
1977
Satan's Triangle
as Eva
1975
Tales That Witness Madness
as Auriol (segment "Luau")
1973
The Third Girl from the Left
as Gloria Joyce
1973
The Great Bank Robbery
as Sister Lyda Kebanov (forger)
1969
The Legend of Lylah Clare
as Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann / Elsa Campbell
1968
Lionpower from MGM
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1967
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as Moll Flanders
1965
Kiss Me, Stupid
as Polly the Pistol
1964
Of Human Bondage
as Mildred Rogers
1964
MGM 40th Anniversary
1964
Boys' Night Out
as Cathy
1962
The Notorious Landlady
as Carly Hardwicke
1962
Pepe
as Kim Novak
1960
Strangers When We Meet
as Margaret 'Maggie' Gault
1960
Middle of the Night
as Betty Preisser
1959
Bell, Book and Candle
as Gillian Holroyd
1958
The All-Star Christmas Show
as Self
1958
Vertigo
as Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton
1958
Pal Joey
as Linda English
1957
Jeanne Eagels
as Jeanne Eagels
1957
