Word: kim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HOLLYWOOD stars are never mere ly "born"- and rarely stay bearable. Even with such uncommon clay as beautiful, white-blonde Kim Novak, 24, now the nation's No. 1 box-office attraction, it took a heap of studio craft to make a star. ("If you wanna bring me your wife or your aunt," says Starmaker Harry Conn, "we'll do the same for them.") Columbia Pictures, which shaped Kim to fill the place of an uppity Rita Hayworth, plunged Actress Novak into an ordeal which is now approaching full cycle, ironically confronts the studio with the old problem...
What began as an angry gleam in Harry Cohn's eye now glows from the world's screens. The star's name: Kim Novak...
...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...
...TIME, July 8). Twentieth Century-Fox still seethed over Climax' play The Dark Wall, which the studio thinks resembled its forthcoming Three Faces of Eve. The situation is so touchy that CBS rejected a script about Actress Jeanne Eagels for fear of enraging Columbia, whose Jeanne Eagels, starring Kim Novak, is awaiting release...
...Young Stranger. A teen-ager studies parental delinquency; with James MacArthur, James Daly, Kim Hunter (TIME...