The best Kim Novak’s drama movies

Kim Novak

Kim Novak

13/02/1933 (91 años)
Marilyn Pauline Novak (born February 13, 1933), known professionally as Kim Novak, is an American retired film and television actress. She began her career in 1954 after signing with Columbia Pictures. There, she became a successful actress, starring in a string of movies, among them the critically acclaimed Picnic (1955). She later starred in such popular successes as The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Pal Joey (1957). However, she is perhaps best known today for her "dual role" as both Judy Barton and Madeleine Elster in Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Vertigo (1958). Novak was popular in box office popularity polls, and she starred opposite several top leading men of the era, including James Stewart, William Holden, Frank Sinatra, Tyrone Power, and Kirk Douglas. Although still young, her career declined in the early 1960s, and after several years in a series of lackluster films, she withdrew from acting in 1966. She has only sporadically returned since. She later returned to the screen in The Mirror Crack'd (1980), and had a regular role on the prime time series Falcon Crest (1986–87).[3] After a disappointing experience during the filming of Liebestraum (1991), she has permanently retired from acting, stating she has no desire to return. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kim Novak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Picnic

Picnic
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/02/1956
  • Character: Madge Owens
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town.

To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 31/10/2007
  • Character: Self (segment "47 Ans Après")
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

The Man with the Golden Arm

The Man with the Golden Arm
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/12/1955
  • Character: Molly
A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.

Pushover

Pushover
7.1/10
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.

5 Against the House

5 Against the House
5.8/10
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

Pal Joey

Pal Joey
6.6/10
An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.

The Children

The Children
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/05/1990
  • Character: Rose Sellars
Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new relationship.

The Third Girl from the Left

The Third Girl from the Left
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 16/10/1973
  • Character: Gloria Joyce
A chorus girl comes to the realization that she is not getting any younger and that her longtime relationship with a nightclub singer is going nowhere. She finds herself attracted to an unassuming but attentive--and much younger--delivery boy.

Middle of the Night

Middle of the Night
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/05/1959
  • Character: Betty Preisser
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 60s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship is dismissed by his daughter, Lillian, discouraged by his sister, Evelyn, and denounced by Betty's mother. But when Jerry begins to mention marriage, even Betty is forced to confront her ambivalence.

Malibu

Malibu
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 23/01/1983
  • Character: Billie Farnsworth
A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.

The Legend of Lylah Clare

The Legend of Lylah Clare
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/08/1968
  • Character: Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann / Elsa Campbell
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

Jeanne Eagels

Jeanne Eagels
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/08/1957
  • Character: Jeanne Eagels
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920's stage star Jeanne Eagels.

Just a Gigolo

Just a Gigolo
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/11/1978
  • Character: Helga von Kaiserling
After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.

The Eddy Duchin Story

The Eddy Duchin Story
6.8/10
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/05/1965
  • Character: Moll Flanders
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.

The French Line

The French Line
5.1/10
Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.

Of Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/09/1964
  • Character: Mildred Rogers
Medical student Philip fall in love with Mildred, a waitress. Although she is a flirt, they have a love affair. But when Philip is told about her constant infideliy, they break up. Mildred quits her job and becomes a prostitute. But Philip is still in love with her.

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