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Seated with the Jerks. Kim's childhood, even as recounted by her family, was Spock-marked with classic difficulties. Her birth in Chicago on Feb. 13, 1933, came as a disappointment to her parents, Joseph and Blanche Novak, native Americans of Bohemian parentage, who had prepared only boys' names for the arrival. The Novaks named her Marilyn Pauline. Joe Novak, a claim clerk for the Milwaukee Railroad, is a melancholy, tight-lipped man whom little Marilyn tried hard to please; she seldom succeeded. Marilyn proved to be lefthanded; her father badgered her without success to use her right...
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...
...Marilyn grew up, she felt herself-in the shadow of her favored sister Arlene, who is three years older. She turned moody and inward, took to her room to scribble poetry-a kind of release to which she has resorted ever since. Recalls Actress Novak: "I was real skinny, real anemic. In school I was always in the last row or next-to-last row, according to the marks. I was seated with the jerks...
...Deepfreeze" in a countrywide promotional tour with three other girls for Thor appliances. "I jumped at it," says Kim. When the tour ended in San Francisco, she headed for Hollywood. Several months later, the baron received a farewell note in verse (the only sample of her verse that Actress Novak will quote...
...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 see that sort of business. I still can't," says Mrs. Novak), Marilyn signed a contract starting at $100 a week...