Kim Novak
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Falcon Crest
Kit Marlowe
1981
Series
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
The Steve Allen Show
Self
1956
Film
Vertigo
Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton
1958
Series
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
V.I.P. Schaukel
Self
1971
Series
Reflets de Cannes
Self
1954
Series
Stars in the Ring
Self
1959
Please Turn the Page
Self
1977
Film
The Mirror Crack'd
Lola Brewster
1980
Film
The White Buffalo
Poker Jenny Schermerhorn
1977
Film
To Each His Own Cinema
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
2007
Film
The Man with the Golden Arm
Molly
1955
Film
Pushover
Lona McLane
1954
Film
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Film
Picnic
Madge Owens
1955
Film
Bell, Book and Candle
Gillian Holroyd
1958
Film
The Notorious Landlady
Carly Hardwicke
1962
Film
Kiss Me, Stupid
Polly the Pistol
1964
Film
Boys' Night Out
Cathy
1962
Film
Jeanne Eagels
Jeanne Eagels
1957
Film
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
2002
Film
Pal Joey
Linda English
1957
Film
The Eddy Duchin Story
Marjorie Oelrichs Duchin
1956
Film
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders
1965
Film
Pepe
Kim Novak
1960
Film
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Molly (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
Film
5 Against the House
Kay Greylek
1955
Film
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Liebestraum
Lillian Anderson Munnsen
1991
Film
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann / Elsa Campbell
1968
Film
Middle of the Night
Betty Preisser
1959
Film
Satan's Triangle
Eva
1975
Film
The Great Bank Robbery
Sister Lyda Kebanov (forger)
1969
Film
Phffft
Janis
1954
Film
Just a Gigolo
Helga von Kaiserling
1978
Film
Lionpower from MGM
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1967
Film
Tales That Witness Madness
Auriol (segment "Luau")
1973
Film
Strangers When We Meet
Margaret 'Maggie' Gault
1960
Film
The French Line
Model (uncredited)
1954
Film
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
Film
Of Human Bondage
Mildred Rogers
1964
Film
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Madeleine Elster (archive footage) (uncredited)
2026
Film
The Children
Rose Sellars
1990
Film
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Self
1954
Film
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee
2023
Hollywood Legenden
Self
2004
Film
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Self
1990
Film
The All-Star Christmas Show
Self
1958
Film
Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen
Self
2016
Film
Malibu
Billie Farnsworth
1983
Film
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
Self
2017
Film
Obsessed with Vertigo
Self
1997
Film
Dark Galaxy
(archive footage)
1993
Film
Son of Sinbad
Harem Girl
1955
Film
The Third Girl from the Left
Gloria Joyce
1973
Film
Kim Novak's Vertigo
Self
2026
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
Self (archive footage)
2013
The Fall: Part II
Self
Film
Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
MGM 40th Anniversary
1964
The Fall: Part I
Self
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
Herself
2006
Bride of Trailer Camp
(archive footage)
2001
Film
Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
2013