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What began as an angry gleam in Harry Cohn's eye now glows from the world's screens. The star's name: Kim Novak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Made | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...ancient Hollywood practice, a star is made not just born. Kim Novak herself was virtually invented, the first topflight star ever made strictly to order, for delivery when needed. When Cohn's underlings found her, she was a small-time model, somewhat overweight and so utterly lacking in acting experience that, as one director put it, "she had never even read the funnies out loud." Today Kim Novak not only holds full sway where Hayworth once ruled supreme, but she has set a record for going far and fast. After only six pictures, she is the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Made | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...Without Leers. How did it happen? Growls Harry Cohn, a 66-year-old professional ogre dubbed "White Fang" by Hollywood wits: "If you wanna bring me your wife or your aunt, we'll do the same for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Made | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Made | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Made | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

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