Kim Novak Filmography

Kim Novak is an American film and television actress. Her first film roles were in Pushover and Phffft! , and her breakthrough role was in Picnic . Over the next three years, she appeared in The Man with the Golden Arm , The Eddy Duchin Story , Pal Joey , and Bell, Book and Candle . She is best known for her role as Judy Barton in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo. Novak's career went into decline afterwards, and she appeared in films sporadically until 1991. Now retired, she lives with her veterinarian husband on a ranch in Eagle Point, Oregon. Novak was born in Chicago, Illinois, to... Joseph and Blanche Novak. Both her parents were of Czech descent. Her father worked as a dispatcher on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad and both her parents had been teachers. While attending David Glasgow Farragut High School, she won a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago. After leaving school, she began a career modeling teen fashions for a local department store. She later received a scholarship at a modeling academy and continued to model part-time.
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