| Net Worth: | $15 Million |
|---|---|
| Date of birth: | February 13, 1933 (91 years old) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Profession: | Actor, Artist, Visual Artist |
| Nationality: | American |
Kim was born February 13, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois to the family with Czech ancestry. Her movie career started in 1950’s and was very successful. Her notable movies include Picnic, Vertigo, and Bell, Book and Candle. Novak kept starring also during eighties, with movies such as The Mirror Crack’d and Malibu. Kim Novak was married twice.
Career
Kim’s long acting career began after she was cast as extras for the movies The French Line and Son of Sinbad. It was while she was at Los Angeles where she was discovered by an agent who signed to a contract with Colombia Pictures. At the onset of her career, she was engaged in a battle with Colombia’s chief over the changing of her name to “Kit Marlowe,” but she insisted that her Polish and Czech ancestry were an essential part of her heritage. Therefore, they settled for the name “Kim Novak” instead of as a compromise.
Personal Life
Kim was first married to English actor Richard Johnson with whom they divorced a year later but still maintained their friendship. She was later engaged to director Richard Quine but never got to do a wedding. She also dated numerous people, including the adopted son of the Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Kim moved to Big Sur in the 60s in order to pursue her passion for painting and raising horses. It was in 1974 that she met her current husband, Richard Quine, who they got married in 1976.
Quotes
“I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front – again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn’t.”
— Kim Novak
“I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.”
— Kim Novak
“The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I’d gone along with the name they’d chosen, I’d never be seen again. I’d be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.”
— Kim Novak
“The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.”
— Kim Novak
“As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.”
— Kim Novak