Cinema Kim Novak defends herself against the 'tyrants' who criticized her at the Oscars
Lauren Bacall, the young widow who never found love again
You have to hear Kim Novak in the original version.
If Frank Sinatra was nicknamed
The Voice
, imagine what the star would have to be called when critic and journalist
Jaume Figueras
(82) told him to pronounce
Vertigo
, the Hitchcockian film that
catapulted her into the universe of the Olympians
.
It happened in the spring of 1991 at the Ritz hotel in Barcelona.
He came to celebrate the seventh anniversary of the
Cinema 3
film program of the Catalan regional channel that Figueras presented.
The room where we were was silent.
The applause sheltered who today is
one of the last survivors of the golden Hollywood
.
A few days ago
she turned 90 years old
.
She never intended to be an actress.
However, during a tour of her as the image of
Thor refrigerators
in which she was nicknamed
Miss Frozen
, a talent scout noticed her
.
This served it on a silver platter to the feared
Harry Cohn
, co-founder and president of Columbia Pictures, known for being one of the most feared sexual predators in Hollywood history since he used casting
couches
to
physically and verbally violate his new acquisitions. .
They nicknamed him
King Cohn
.
Kim Novak didn't fall for it, she had enough of a
gang rape in the back seat of a car
as a teenager.
However, he had to undergo a
makeover
if he wanted to penetrate people's dreams.
He wanted to make her the successor to Rita Hayworth.
He forced her to put on veneers, ordered her hair to be bleached and
demanded that she lose seven kilos
, a trifle compared to what they did to the protagonist of
Gilda
(1946) who was not only dyed a redhead, but also
had her electrolysis hair removal to enlarge his forehead.
Cohn was willing to substitute the sultry
Marilyn Pauline Novak
for Rita .
Kim Novak, Frank Sinatra and Rita Hayworth in 'Pal Joel'.EM
That young woman who was
insanely shy
as a child dared to contradict the big boss so they wouldn't change her last name of Slavic origin.
She, too, could not keep her real name, Marilyn, because
the ineffable Monroe already existed
, and
she did not agree to be baptized Kit Marlowe
, a name with which she retaliated when she intervened in
Falcon Crest
.
Kim Novak was born.
In 1954 he signed his contract with Columbia.
The beginnings of him were loaded with misogyny.
The studio's head of publicity told him,
"You're a piece of meat, that's all,"
and one of the first directors he did a screen test for snapped, "Don't listen, watch."
Still from 'Vertigo', by Hitchcock.EM
The actress got away with it.
In four years she had become a star.
The first to push her to immortality was
Joshua Logan
with
Picnic
(1955), along with
William Holden,
and Alfred Hitchcock finished off her move with
Vertigo
(1958).
In between, she had shot
The Man with the Golden Arm
(1955) and
Pal Joey
(1957) with her lover, Frank Sinatra, who was simultaneously with Lauren Bacall, who earned the enmity of the industry because her husband, Humphrey Bogart, lay dying. in bed.
Kim Nonak in a still from Picnic.EM
In a matter of love, Novak knew no limits.
In 1957 she began dating
Sammy Davis Jr,
which caused an
unprecedented scandal
because
interracial couples were socially prohibited
.
She didn't care about them.
But Cohn used her mob connections to take out "that fucking black bastard."
Theirs was predestined not to be and they ended it.
Soon after, the actress
had become the right eye of Ramfis Trujillo
, son of the billionaire Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas, who also drank the winds for Zsa Zsa Gabor, until the Jewish interpreter Lita Milan entered the scene, who had an
affair
with Paul Newman, her partner in
Lefty
(1958), who had just married
Joanne Woodward
.
A mess of sheets that finally ended in 1958 with the
marriage of Ramfis with Lita,
turned into a character of the heart in Spain for being the
partner of Jaime Ostos.
In his Hollywood mansion, Kim Novak delighted in
orgies or sexual raffles
, as José Luis de Vilallonga once defined them after being
invited to a dinner attended by only a dozen men,
including the protagonist of
El espejo roto
( 1980) chose who he slept with.
Kim Novak during her visit to Barcelona in 1991.LF ROMO
The actress had no taboos.
She was an anti-star
.
She never liked being made a sex symbol of hers and treated like merchandise, which had a deleterious effect on
her father's inherited depression
From her.
For this reason
she never wanted to have children.
She almost settled down when she married actor
Richard Johnson
in 1965, but they divorced the following year.
As the film offers were less and less interesting, he found himself more comfortable in the middle of nature where he began to paint, write and create songs that Harry Belafonte
(95) came to sing and
bought a ranch in Oregon where
he raised horses and llamas
.
When one of her equines fell ill, she called the local veterinarian, Robert Malloy, whom she married in 1976. Her home burned down in 2000, in which she lost the scripts for Vertigo and Picnic with personal annotations
and
the
draft
of
her autobiography
, which he had worked on for 10 years.
Her husband passed away three years ago.
His comfort from her?
The painting.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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