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

• 2026Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas — Madeleine Elster (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2013Kim Novak: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival
• 2009Hollywood sul Tevere
• 2001Bride of Trailer Camp — (archive footage)
• 1993Dark Galaxy — (archive footage)
• 1991Liebestraum — Lillian Anderson Munnsen
• 1991Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker — Molly (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1990The Children — Rose Sellars
• 1983Malibu — Billie Farnsworth
• Falcon Crest — Kit Marlowe
• 1980The Mirror Crack'd — Lola Brewster
• 1978Just a Gigolo — Helga von Kaiserling
• 1977The White Buffalo — Poker Jenny Schermerhorn
• 1975Satan's Triangle — Eva
• 1973Tales That Witness Madness — Auriol (segment "Luau")
• 1973The Third Girl from the Left — Gloria Joyce
• 1969The Great Bank Robbery — Sister Lyda Kebanov (forger)
• 1968The Legend of Lylah Clare — Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann / Elsa Campbell
• 1965The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders — Moll Flanders
• 1964Kiss Me, Stupid — Polly the Pistol
• 1964MGM 40th Anniversary
• 1964Of Human Bondage — Mildred Rogers
• 1962Boys' Night Out — Cathy, Co-Costume Designer
• 1962The Notorious Landlady — Carly Hardwicke, Costume Design
• 1960Pepe — Kim Novak
• 1960Strangers When We Meet — Margaret 'Maggie' Gault
• 1959Middle of the Night — Betty Preisser
• 1958Bell, Book and Candle — Gillian Holroyd
• 1958Vertigo — Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton
• 1957Jeanne Eagels — Jeanne Eagels
• 1957Pal Joey — Linda English
• 1956The Eddy Duchin Story — Marjorie Oelrichs Duchin
• 19555 Against the House — Kay Greylek
• 1955Picnic — Madge Owens
• 1955Son of Sinbad — Harem Girl
• 1955The Man with the Golden Arm — Molly
• 1954Phffft — Janis
• 1954Pushover — Lona McLane
• 1954The French Line — Model (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (29)

• 2026Kim Novak's Vertigo — Self
• 2023Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel — Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee
• 2022Rat Pack — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's — Self (archive footage)
• 2021I Am Alfred Hitchcock — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me — Self
• 2016Made in Hollywood: Hitchcocks Blondinen — Self
• 2013Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten — Self (archive footage)
• 2007To Each His Own Cinema — Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
• 2006Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger — Self
• 2004Hollywood Legenden — Self
• 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
• 1997Obsessed with Vertigo — Self
• 1990Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream — Self
• 1983Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Please Turn the Page — Self
• V.I.P. Schaukel — Self
• 1967Lionpower from MGM — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Stars in der Manege — Self
• 1958The All-Star Christmas Show — Self
• Cinépanorama — Self
• The Steve Allen Show — Self
• 1954A Star Is Born World Premiere — Self
• Reflets de Cannes — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• What's My Line? — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
• The Fall: Part I — Self
• The Fall: Part II — Self