Kim Novak
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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.8 |
| Birthday | 1933-02-13 |
| Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | The Lavender Girl, Marilyn Pauline Novak, کیم نواک, |
1958
Vertigo
8.136/6421
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming danger...
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Vertigo
1955
The Man with the Golden Arm
7.148/257
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old d...
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The Man with the Golden Arm
1958
Bell, Book and Candle
6.564/258
Gillian Holroyd, a modern-day witch, becomes smitten with her handsome upstairs neighbor, Shep Henderson. Using her magical powers, she casts a love s...
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Bell, Book and Candle
1955
Son of Sinbad
5.111/18
Legendary pirate and adventurer Sinbad is in single-minded pursuit of two things: beautiful women and a substance called Greek Fire--an early version...
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Son of Sinbad
1980
The Mirror Crack'd
6.085/248
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
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The Mirror Crack'd
1954
Pushover
6.52/76
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
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Pushover
1978
Just a Gigolo
5.015/33
After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and ca...
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Just a Gigolo
1957
Pal Joey
6.265/83
An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.
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Pal Joey
1964
MGM 40th Anniversary
8/2
A brief overview of stellar MGM releases from its first 40 years.
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MGM 40th Anniversary
2004
Hollywood Legenden
4.5/2
Documentary about Hollywood.
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Hollywood Legenden
1962
Boys' Night Out
5.897/29
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different...
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Boys' Night Out
1973
Tales That Witness Madness
5.527/55
Enigmatic asylum owner Dr Tremayne houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial...
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Tales That Witness Madness
2013
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
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Documentary about Hollywood.
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Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
2016
Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen
0/0
Documentary about Alfred Hitchcocks infatuation with blondes.
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Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen
1956
The Eddy Duchin Story
6.3/37
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
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The Eddy Duchin Story
1991
Liebestraum
5.409/22
A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.
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Liebestraum
1990
The Children
4.9/4
After years working in Brazil, middle-aged engineer Martin Boyner returns to Switzerland to marry his longtime friend, the recently widowed Rose Sella...
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The Children
1955
5 Against the House
5.919/43
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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5 Against the House
1977
The White Buffalo
6/146
In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquel...
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The White Buffalo
1955
Picnic
6.362/112
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a for...
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Picnic
1962
The Notorious Landlady
6.8/59
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
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The Notorious Landlady
1954
Phffft
6.183/41
Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate atte...
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Phffft
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
7/3
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1964
Kiss Me, Stupid
6.968/219
While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. Th...
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Kiss Me, Stupid
1960
Pepe
6.343/51
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss....
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Pepe
1960
Strangers When We Meet
6.422/45
A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down...
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Strangers When We Meet
1968
The Legend of Lylah Clare
6.048/31
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
1975
Satan's Triangle
5.4/28
The female survivor of a shipwreck and two Coast Guard helicopter pilots sent to rescue her find themselves trapped in a mysterious part of the ocean...
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Satan's Triangle
1965
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
5.733/15
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.
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The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1964
Of Human Bondage
6.083/18
Medical student Philip Carey becomes involved with flirtatious waitress Mildred Rogers. Their love affair is interrupted when Philip is made aware of...
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Of Human Bondage
1959
Middle of the Night
7.014/37
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a roma...
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Middle of the Night
1957
Jeanne Eagels
6.2/15
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.
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Jeanne Eagels
1969
The Great Bank Robbery
6.6/12
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
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The Great Bank Robbery
2023
Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
7/11
Kim Novak never dreamed on being a star, but she became one. Most famous for her enigmatic performance in Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), the Chicago-born...
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Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
1973
The Third Girl from the Left
9.5/2
A chorus girl comes to the realization that she is not getting any younger and that her longtime relationship with a nightclub singer is going nowhere...
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The Third Girl from the Left
2022
Rat Pack
9/2
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bish...
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Rat Pack
1997
Obsessed with Vertigo
7.1/18
A documentary about the making and restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "Vertigo." Narrated by Roddy McDowall, with behind-the-scenes talk fr...
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Obsessed with Vertigo
1990
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
7/3
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Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
1954
A Star Is Born World Premiere
8/4
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Acade...
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
1983
Malibu
3.75/4
A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people liv...
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Malibu
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
8/7
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me...
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
2006
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
0/0
German Documentary about the Austrian-American Movie Director Otto Preminger.
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Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
2013
Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
0/0
In a show taped before a live audience at the TCM Classic Film Festival in April 2012, Robert Osborne hosts an in-depth interview with actress Kim Nov...
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Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
1954
The French Line
4.364/11
Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.
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The French Line
2017
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
6.9/9
A star-studded roster of interviewees (including Jerry Lewis, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal) pay tribute to the legendary, multi-talented song-and...
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Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
2021
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
7.3/22
Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of the most influential and studied filmmakers in the...
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I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2007
To Each His Own Cinema
6.458/156
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...
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To Each His Own Cinema
2022
Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's
0/0
An original documentary that deciphers in depth, like no other before, the ten most singular years of the life of Sammy Davis, Jr. the legendary perfo...
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Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's
2001
Bride of Trailer Camp
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A compilation of "coming attractions" from bad '50s melodrama through the greatest disaster movies of the '70s. Features a chain of your divas includi...
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Bride of Trailer Camp
1993
Dark Galaxy
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"They are combinations of fragments. There are no stories, it is possible to mount these fragments in many ways. »Cine-eye or cine-voice-eye. The text...
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Dark Galaxy
1958
The All-Star Christmas Show
6/1
This 1958 Christmas spectacular was produced by the USO for the entertainment of troops stationed overseas. Over 50 top names from stage, screen and t...
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The All-Star Christmas Show
1967
Lionpower from MGM
6.333/3
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's releases for the 1967-68 film season under a "five se...
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Lionpower from MGM
2026
Kim Novak's Vertigo
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Explores Kim Novak's life, highlighting her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, and her journey from stardom to a reclusive life as an artist in Orego...
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Kim Novak's Vertigo
2002
Heart of the Festival
6.5/2
A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history.
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Heart of the Festival
2009
Hollywood sul Tevere
0/0
Biggest Hollywood stars in Italy from 1950 to 1970 through Cinecittà Luce's archives.
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Hollywood sul Tevere
2026
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
0/0
"Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas" (2026) is a Brazilian film essay directed by Carlos Adriano. The film, which explores the impossibility of...
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The Fall: Part I
0/0
A two-part documentary that investigates the iconic finale of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece, Vertigo.
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The Fall: Part I
The Fall: Part II
0/0
A two-part documentary that investigates the iconic finale of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece, Vertigo.
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