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Died. Dr. Alfred Einstein Cohn, 78, heart specialist who introduced the electrocardiogram to the U.S. (1910), member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920-44), and noted essayist (Minerva's Progress); after long illness; in New Milford, Conn...
...leveled and whitened her teeth, put her on a rigid diet, redid and dyed her hair, exercised her in a gym and in acting classes, posed her on a tiger rug with a still camera staring down her bodice. One of the first rites was to change her name. Cohn liked the name Kit Marlowe. She insisted on keeping Novak. But the name Marilyn had to go because it suggested another blonde. For two days the new actress was named Kit Novak until she tearfully went to Publicity Director George Lait to plead for a change to Kim.* Remembers Lait...
...even Harry Cohn can conjure up-or do without-the special, ineffable magic of looks and personality that only a star strikes from celluloid. Young (24) and at the top of her form (37-23-37), Kim Novak is an ample (5 ft. 7 in., 125 Ibs.), creamy-skinned girl with classically solid Slavic good looks under a gloss of glamour. Her hazel eyes are long-lashed and deep-socketed; her full mouth pouts ever so slightly; an alabaster pallor sculpts her cheeks; her hair is shaped to the head in a fluffy corona of lavender-rinsed silver platinum. With...
...down/' Under the goad of this fear, Kim ran herself so ragged while making Jeanne Eagels, and simultaneously preparing for the recently completed Pal Joey, that she landed in the hospital with exhaustion. Says a friend: "Harry Cohn thinks he can make Kim an actress. But it's a terrible strain on Kim. She knows she isn't an actress, but she's ambitious. She cracks up under the pressure...
First Rites. Just about then, Cohn issued his edict. At a Hollywood party, Marilyn met a Columbia production assistant; he took her to see Maxwell Arnow, then Columbia's talent chief. Arnow inspected her with a routine but practiced eye, advised her to lose some weight and return. When he met her again by chance in the office of Agent Louis Shurr, she had lost the weight-at least enough for Arnow to see possibilities. He ordered a screen test, soon was excitedly telephoning colleagues: "I've got the girl." Against her parents' advice ("I never could...