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Kim Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American film and television actress. She began her career with her roles in Pushover and Phffft! (both 1954) but achieved greater prominence in the 1955 film Picnic. In the following five years, she appeared in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Eddy Duchin Story (1956), Pal Joey (1957), and Bell, Book and Candle (1958). She is best known for her dual role as Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo. Kim Novak was born Marilyn Pauline Novak in Chicago, Illinois, to Joseph and Blanche (née Kral) Novak. Both her... MORE

Kim Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American film and television actress. She began her career with her roles in Pushover and Phffft! (both 1954) but achieved greater prominence in the 1955 film Picnic. In the following five years, she appeared in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Eddy Duchin Story (1956), Pal Joey (1957), and Bell, Book and Candle (1958). She is best known for her dual role as Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo. Kim Novak was born Marilyn Pauline Novak in Chicago, Illinois, to Joseph and Blanche (née Kral) 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. She worked as an elevator operator, a sales clerk and a dental assistant. After a job touring the country as a spokesman for a refrigerator manufacturer, "Miss LESS