Venice Film Festival
Kim Novak receives golden lions for life’s work
As a mysterious blonde (and brunette) in the Hitchcock classic “Vertigo” she wrote film history. Then she retired from Hollywood. Now she is awarded for her career.
The US actress Kim Novak will receive a golden lion for her life’s work at the Venice Film Festival this year. The 92 -year -old – one of the Hollywood greats of the 1950s and 1960s – wants to personally receive the award in August, as the festival management in the Italian lagoon city announced. Novak is particularly remembered by the Alfred Hitchcock classic “Vertigo-from the realm of the dead”.
The head of the film festival, Alberto Barbera, recognized Novak as a great actress and “rebel in the heart of the system”: After a few less successful films, she had said goodbye to Hollywood in the mid-1960s and had moved further north of the US west coast, on a ranch to Oregon. She still lives there today.
Documentary has premiere in Venice
Novak had had to change her actual first name Marilyn on pressure from Hollywood in order to settle down by Marilyn Monroe. To do this, she also colored her hair platinum blonde – one of the key scenes in the Hitchcock classic from 1958, where she plays a woman alongside James Stewart whose origin is puzzling.
Novak himself described it as a “dream of being true to be recognized for all my work”. The American added: “I will honor any moment that I spend in Venice.” At the festival, a documentary world premiere should also have its role in “Vertigo”: “Kim Novak’s Vertigo” by Swiss director Alexandre Philippe.
The film festival in Venice – one of the most important cinema festivals in the world – will take place this year from August 27 to September 6th.
dpa
Source: Stern
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