poster · vertigo (1958)
Film · 1958
Vertigo
United States · Thriller, Romance
Actress
Kim Novak
United StatesACTIVE 1954–1991
Kim Novak
- Born
- 13 February 1933 · Chicago, USA
- Nationality
- United States
- Professions
- Actress
- Active
- 1954–1991
A Columbia star of the 1950s, Kim Novak stood out for refusing to fit the studio-diva mould. In Vertigo, her double role as Madeleine and Judy is the film’s broken heart.
She walked away from Hollywood at her peak — a choice now read as an act of independence from an industry that treated her as a product.
Career
- 1954–1957
- Rise at Columbia; success in Picnic and The Man with the Golden Arm.
- 1958
- Hitchcock’s Vertigo — the role that made her immortal.
- 1960–1991
- Occasional work until retirement; turns to painting.
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