Kim Novak

Former American film and TV actress Marilyn Pauline “Kim” Novak started her film career in 1954. Kim Novak was born in Chicago, Illinois, and while in college, decided to take a trip to Los Angeles with some friends during break. While in LA, waiting in line to do extra work on a film, an agent approached her. She subsequently signed with Columbia Pictures and starred in numerous movies.

Novak has starred with many notable figures in the entertainment industry in the span of her career. She is most credited for her performance as Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton in a thriller by Alfred Hitchcock entitled Vertigo in 1958, alongside James Stewart. The actress has since achieved box office success, and with her good looks and talents, she has starred opposite several of the biggest leading men in Hollywood, including Fred MacMurray, William Holden, Frank Sinatra, Tyrone Power, Kirk Douglas, and Laurence Harvey, to name a few.