Word: kim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Wong Howe, who shot Picnic: "What makes her interesting is the combination of her classical beauty with a sensual, lush quality." Says Director George (The Eddy Duchin Story) Sidney: "She has the fa cade and the equipment of a bitch in the long shot. Yet when you look in Kim's eyes in a closeup, she's like a baby. There is a fire with the sweetness, a bitchery with the virtue, all in one package...
...husband, Aly Khan), the international press corps virtually ignored other stars in a tumbling pursuit of the blonde American girl who had then appeared in Europe in only two movies (Pushover, Phffft!). Last week, vacationing in the frequent company of an attentive, wealthy Italian businessman, Mario Bandini, 33, Kim created traffic jams on the Roman stamping ground of Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida...
Heights of Adequacy. Next week Kim Novak will mark a new milestone: the U.S. release of Jeanne Eagels, the first movie designed as her personal vehicle and thoroughly dominated by the character she plays. Until now, she has been shrewdly cast in roles that seemed remarkably varied yet actually made only modest demands on her modest resources. She has played a dizzy platinum blonde (Phffft!), a red-tressed, small-town belle (Picnic), a slum-dwelling B-girl (The Man with the Golden Arm), a golden-haired Manhattan society beauty of the '205 (The Eddy Duchin Story). In each picture...
...Kim attacks the role gamely. To prepare for it, she read everything she could find on Jeanne Eagels. "The first thing I read said she was irrational and sensitive and all the things I sort of am, and how she used to eat pickles in school like me." Kim was instantly attracted. She plastered her dressing room with pictures of the star (whom she actually resembles), rehearsed while a phonograph played mood music of the '203. For sad scenes, an accordionist played Poor Butterfly. But in the picture, Kim proves more kitten than tigress; her tempests rattle not even...