If you don’t recall, Kim Novakwas a top star in the’50s, into the ’60s and (despite lukewarm acting critiques) remains immortalized with Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Vertigo.
Novak abruptly quit acting in 1991 to leave gracefully and pursue other interests.
All that’s a truth of a kind, but her candid reason was that “I got so burned out…I wanted to leave the business, but then if you wait long enough you think, ‘Oh, I miss certain things.’ making of a movie is wonderful.” Then she leveled the lamentation of every pari passu and no-budget filmmaker; “What’s difficult is afterward when you have to go around and try to sell it. The actual filming, when you have a good script—which isn’t often—nothing beats it.”
This really isn’t a retrospect of a very popular actress that I thought should have taken more acting lessons, but that Ms. Novak, now 77 is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. The good news is that doctors (not agents, publicist or managers) say that everything is and will be fine.
And if you care, she’s still creating paintings, sculptures and attending to her horses in Oregon with her husband of 34 years, who happens to be a doctor himself.
Novak abruptly quit acting in 1991 to leave gracefully and pursue other interests.
All that’s a truth of a kind, but her candid reason was that “I got so burned out…I wanted to leave the business, but then if you wait long enough you think, ‘Oh, I miss certain things.’ making of a movie is wonderful.” Then she leveled the lamentation of every pari passu and no-budget filmmaker; “What’s difficult is afterward when you have to go around and try to sell it. The actual filming, when you have a good script—which isn’t often—nothing beats it.”
This really isn’t a retrospect of a very popular actress that I thought should have taken more acting lessons, but that Ms. Novak, now 77 is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. The good news is that doctors (not agents, publicist or managers) say that everything is and will be fine.
