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Actress Kim Novak searches through her smoke-damaged bathroom with a flashlight following a fire that destroyed most of the home Monday. The original script for "Vertigo," the 1958 Hitchcock thriller starring Novak, was among items she and her husband lost.
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Novak was born Marilyn Pauline Novak in Chicago, Illinois, a Roman Catholic of Czech extraction. Her father was a railroad clerk and former teacher; her mother ... was a former teacher, and Novak has a sister. After graduating from high school, she began her career modeling teen fashions for a local department store. She later received a scholarship at a modeling school and continued to model part time. She also worked as an elevator operator, a sales clerk, and a dental assistant. After a job touring the country as a spokesman for refrigerators, "Miss Deepfreeze," Novak moved to Los Angeles, where she continued modeling.
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Novak's career continued in high gear through 1965. After appearing in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) and marrying her second husband, her film appearances became less frequent. After the loss of her Bel Air home to erosion following a bad fire season in the 1970s, Novak retired and moved to Northern California . There, she and her husband, Dr. Robert Malloy, a veterinarian, raised llamas. She continued to appear on television and in feature films, but only when she wanted to. At home on the ranch she spoke of her screen persona "Kim Novak" as if she were a totally different person. In 1997, she dusted off the old persona to go on an extensive promotional tour to alert the public to the fully restored version of Vertigo.
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Her home in Eagle Point, Oregon, went up in flames July 24, 2000, and Novak watched helplessly as it burned. A deputy Fire Marshall said the blaze was probably caused by a tree falling across a power line. Among her lost mementos were scripts of some of her most critically acclaimed movies, including Vertigo and Picnic. The only existing draft of her autobiography was ... lost to the fire.
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This was not the first time Novak has lost her home. The 67-year-old actress single-handedly saved her Bel Aire, Calif., home by pumping swimming pool water during a ravaging fire nearly 40 years ago.
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