Kim Novak is to obtain the Venice Movie Pageant’s (August 27 – September 6) Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.
The pageant may even display screen the world premiere of documentary Kim Novak’s Vertigo by Alexandre Philippe, made in collaboration with the legendary American actress.
Recognized for films together with Vertigo, Picnic, and Bell Ebook and Candle, Novak mentioned at the moment: “I’m deeply, deeply touched to obtain the celebrated Golden Lion Award from such an enormously revered movie pageant. To be acknowledged for my physique of labor right now in my life is a dream come true. I’ll treasure each second I spend in Venice. It should fill my coronary heart with pleasure.”
Venice’s Creative Director Alberto Barbera declared: “Inadvertently changing into a display screen legend, Kim Novak was some of the beloved icons of a complete period of Hollywood movies, from her auspicious debut throughout the mid-Nineteen Fifties till her untimely and voluntary exile from the gilded cage of Los Angeles a short time later. She by no means shunned criticizing the studio system, selecting her roles, who she let into her personal life and even her identify. Compelled to surrender her given identify, Marilyn Pauline, as a result of it was related to Monroe, she fought to preserve her final identify, agreeing, in alternate, to dye her hair that shade of platinum blonde which set her aside. Impartial and nonconformist, she created her personal manufacturing firm and went on strike to renegotiate a wage that was a lot decrease than that of her male co-stars.”
He continued: “Due to her exuberant magnificence; her capacity to carry to life characters who had been naïve and discreet, in addition to sensuous and tormented; and her seductive and typically sorrowful gaze, she was appreciated by a few of the main American administrators of the interval, from Billy Wilder (Kiss me, Silly), to Otto Preminger (The Man With the Golden Arm), Robert Aldrich (The Legend of Lylah Clare), George Sidney (The Eddy Duchin Story, Jeanne Eagels, Pal Joey), and Richard Quine, with whom she made unforgettable romantic comedies (Pushover, Bell Ebook and Candle, Strangers When We Meet, The Infamous Landlady). However her picture will stay perpetually linked to the twin characters she performed in Hitchcock’s Vertigo, which turned the function of her life. This Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement celebrates a star who was emancipated, a insurgent on the coronary heart of Hollywood who illuminated the goals of film lovers earlier than retiring to her ranch in Oregon to dedicate herself to portray and to her horses.”
A significant star within the Nineteen Fifties, Novak withdrew from performing by 1966 and has solely labored sporadically in movies since. She appeared in The Mirror Crack’d in 1980 and had an everyday function on the primetime sequence Falcon Crest (1986–1987). After making movie Liebenstraum in 1991 she retired from performing.
The pageant may even fete revered German filmmaker Werner Herzog.
