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Kim Novak: Miscellaneous
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The danger is to see Judy, played by Novak, as an object in the same way that Scottie sees her. She is in fact one of the most sympathetic female characters in all of Hitchcock.
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"We have, of course, met before," Kim Novak says. Imagine her trying a cheap pickup line like that! But no, she says, she's certain, as if the poor old reporter could have met Kim Novak and forgotten about it. Kim Novak is not forgettable.
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Flames leaping 20 feet high devoured photographs taken during the filming of Alfred Hitchcock’s "Vertigo," in which Novak played James Stewart’s love interest. Damage to Novak’s home and the contents is estimated to be about $200,000.
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"I'll never forget MGM," Novak says, her eyes widening. "God! My first day at MGM they decided to bring this lion out, male, and it was not the best time for him to see me. All of a sudden he thought I was in heat and this lion went into the dressing room, which was just a trailer on the sound stage, and went crazy.
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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. While in grammar school, Kim won a scholarship to the famed Chicago Art Institute.
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[O]n Monday, a shocked Novak was sifting through the blackened ash to salvage what she could, including the computer hard drive she hopes still stores chapters of a biography she’s been working on for a decade. She ... saved an oil painting she created of her mother.
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