Los Angeles Times: Patrick Kevin Day- Kim Novak: 'Hollywood Star Walk'

Source:Los Angeles Times- Hollywood Goddess Kim Novak.

"Columbia Stars Kim Novak

Film: South side of the 6300 block of Hollywood Boulevard

Actress Born Marilyn Pauline Novak on Feb. 13, 1933 in Chicago, Ill.

Kim Novak, the daughter of a railroad clerk and a former teacher, got her start as a teen fashion model. She later landed a contract to tour the country for a refrigerator company as Miss Deepfreeze. While in Los Angeles, she caught the eye of a talent scout from Columbia Pictures, who signed her to a six month contract. (It was the studio that had her change her first name to Kim)."

From the Los Angeles Times 

"Kim Novak imprints her magic during her handprint and footprint ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, CA, at the 3rd Annual TCM Classic Film Festival on April 14, 2012 (TCM's 18th birthday.) TCM Host Robert Osborne, Hollywood Legend Debbie Reynolds, and Sue Cameron, Kim Novak's Manager and Co-Founder of Women in Film, are in this video honoring Kim for her work in Vertigo and 33 titles. The Goody Awards sends a Social Good Shout Out #HeroGoody​ #GoodyAwards​ to Kim Novak for her many contributions to the big screen and our lives... 

Source:Goody Awards- Hollywood Goddess Kim Novak getting a well-deserved honor.

From Goody Awards

When I think of pure beauty, grace, class, realism, adorableness, Kim Novak is not the only actress I think of, but she’s certainly one of my favorites. I don’t know of another actress who was that hot and adorable and that well-built and that real. A hot, 5’6 woman with a great body and whose also adorable, who played all of her roles as if she’s playing herself. 

If you judge an actress by how real and believable their character is, meaning do the you believe the actress playing the woman or not, that alone would make Kim Novak not just one of the best actress’s of her generation (that includes Angie Dickinson, Sophia Loren, Dyan Cannon, Liz Taylor and many others, Grace Kelly) but one of the best actress’s of all-time.

And I believe what makes Kim even better is that the women that she played most of the time tended to be very different from who she is in real-life. Kim, was somewhat shy and lacking in self-confidence and never quite sure of herself. Which was perfect for her in Vertigo where she plays Madeline who is very similar in personality. But look at The Man With The Golden Arm with Frank Sinatra and she’s playing the cool always sure of herself character. Whose trying to save a drug addict and gambler played by Sinatra, from himself. Which is my point about Kim that she was so good at playing her characters even people who were very different from herself. But played them so well as if she was playing herself.

I’m not saying Kim Novak is Lauren Bacall, or Liz Taylor, Rita Hayworth, Susan Hayward, but probably in the next group, or the one right after that if not the second one. Because she sort of burned out by the late 1960s and attempted a few comebacks after that without achieving the great roles that she use to have. Had she still been doing well in Hollywood in the 1970s and 1980s, maybe we’re talking about an actress who belongs in the first group of greatest actress’s of all-time. 

But for her time in the 1950s through the mid 1960s she was one of the best and best-looking in Hollywood. And landed a lot of great movies and roles because of that. And someone who clearly belongs in the Hollywood Hall of Fame, or the equivalent of that.

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