Kim Novak

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 4:56pm

What are your favorite Kim Novak movies?

Mine are: Bell, Book and Candle, Strangers When We Meet, Picnic, Middle of the Night, Vertigo, The Notorious Landlady. In that order.

Diane

Updated On: 4/15/08 at 04:56 PM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 5:47pm

Planet of the Apes and BENEATH the Planet of the Apes!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 5:54pm

"Planet of the Apes and BENEATH the Planet of the Apes!"

That was Kim Hunter.


Vertigo
Picnic

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 6:15pm

Kim Hunter, yes. Who's Kim Novak then?

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 6:22pm

I never tire of PICNIC, an iconic film of the 50s.

Two images are definitive, both involving a kind of time stop: Holden and Novak paralyzed by desire as the train races by, and the frozen moment on the dock, Kim with hands akew, before resuming the slow cross to Holden to "Moonglow." You can laugh at both, but they are hypnotic.

(The problem with PICNIC: Miscast Susan Strasberg is a nubile Lolita, hardly the tortured Millie, despite an affected voice (that has little to do with Kansas) the sexiest "nerdy" brainiac in the midwest. You keep expecting Holden to go for her, at least for about 20 minutes.)

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 7:37pm

Middle of the Night w/ Kim and Frederic March is airing on TCM on Wednesday, April 23rd at 3 P.M. It's not on VHS or DVD, so don't miss it if you're a Kim fan.

[RetroBoy]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 9:15pm

We've been there, we've done that and we've all got the t-shirts and this lovely linked thread to prove it!


FAVORITE KIM MOVIE: STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET


Kim Novak - Show The Love Updated On: 4/15/08 at 09:15 PM

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 9:36pm

I forgot about Middle of the Night. Glad TCM will be showing it!

Diane

Updated On: 4/16/08 at 09:36 PM

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 9:42pm

You're absolutely right, those are the best moments from Picnic!

Diane

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 9:44pm

Do you think that this is the first time TCM has shown Middle of the Night. If it has been shown before, it has been a number of years.

Diane

[Chevstriss]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 11:51pm

I have to go with her dual role on Falcon Crest - a deliberate homage to Vertigo

[WOSQ]

Posted: 4/16/08 at 9:40am

I have a favorite Kim Novak film that is great, but for all the wrong reasons:

The Legend of Lylah Clare.

So ghastly it is brilliant. They don't know how to make them this bad any more.

"Tell them Lylah's coming! Just as soon as she gets into harness!"

[Mamie]

Posted: 4/16/08 at 9:45am

Picnic is absolutely my favorite KN film - but not necessarily because of her. I honestly think she's a terrible actress. I never believed in any of her characters. A very beautiful lady - but that's about it.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/16/08 at 10:03am

And now when there's moonglow, way up in the blue,
I'll always remember that moonglow gave me you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQofaN0w89c

Updated On: 4/16/08 at 10:03 AM

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 4/16/08 at 10:09am

I think she grew as an actress over time. By the late fifties, she was giving perfectly acceptable performances.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 4/16/08 at 10:11am

I don't think she was any great actress or anything, but VERTIGO is unthinkable without her.

LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE is pretty laughable, but I know people who love it.