Actor
Kim Novak
February 13, 1933 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Bess Flowers
3 titles together
Vertigo, The Notorious Landlady, The Eddy Duchin Story
Jack Lemmon
3 titles together
Bell, Book and Candle, The Notorious Landlady, Phffft
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Leon Alton
3 titles together
Bell, Book and Candle, The Notorious Landlady, Phffft
James Stewart
2 titles together
Vertigo, Bell, Book and Candle
Raymond Bailey
2 titles together
Vertigo, Picnic
Ellen Corby
2 titles together
Vertigo, The Legend of Lylah Clare
Full filmography · 37
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
as Madeleine Elster (archive footage) (uncredited)
2026
Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
cast
2013
Hollywood sul Tevere
cast
2009
Dark Galaxy
as (archive footage)
1993
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Molly (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
Liebestraum
as Lillian Anderson Munnsen
19915.4
The Children
as Rose Sellars
1990
Malibu
as Billie Farnsworth
1983
The Mirror Crack'd
as Lola Brewster
19806.1
Just a Gigolo
as Helga von Kaiserling
19785
The White Buffalo
as Poker Jenny Schermerhorn
19776
Satan's Triangle
as Eva
19755.4