Kim Novak Net Worth

Kim Novak's Quotes

• The head of publicity of the Hollywood studio where I was first under contract told me, "You're a piece of meat, that's all". It wasn't very nice but I had to take it. When I made my first screen test, the director explained to everyone, "Don't listen to her, just look".
• Storms come down, houses are wiped out, people drown, but every last little palm is there after the storm. Man is always saying, "I will overwhelm". Why can't he bend like the little palms? And rise again. Isn't that better than being washed away?
• For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.
• Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.
• [Alfred Hitchcock], contrary to what I'd heard about him, allowed me very much to have my own interpretation and everything.

Interesting Facts about Kim Novak

1. Raises horses and llamas in Oregon.
2. Went on a personal strike in 1957 protesting her current salary of $1,250 per week.
3. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#92). [1995]
4. On July 24, 2000, she watched her memento-filled house in Eagle Point, Oregon, go up in flames. A deputy fire marshal said that the blaze was probably the result of a tree that fell across an electrical power line. Included in the loss were scripts to some of her movies as well as her computer, which contained her long-gestating autobiography. However, spared were her menagerie of animals, including horses and llamas, as well as the star's husband of 24 years, veterinarian Bob Malloy. She later said that the fire was a sign that she shouldn't be writing an autobiography.
5. For a scene in Picnic (1955) in which she had to cry, she asked director Joshua Logan to pinch her black and blue off screen, telling him, "I can only cry when I'm hurt.".
6. As a starlet with Columbia Pictures, she resisted pressure to change her name to Kit Marlowe. Years later, the name was used for the character she played on the television series Falcon Crest (1981). (She did agree to change her first name from Marilyn to Kim, as the public associated her given name with Marilyn Monroe).
7. In Popular (1999), the main girl's bathroom in the high school is called "The Novak" which holds all the pictures of the homecoming queens. The name is inspired by when movie stars would donate money to schools (often an alma mater). The writers found out that Kim Novak donated money to a school in the Santa Monica area (where the school/show is set), so they named this room after her.
8. Is portrayed by Terri Lynn in Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess (1983)
9. Columbia gave her a studio-mandated makeover that capped her teeth and bleached her hair. She was also required to lose 15 pounds before going on-camera.
10. In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by Rosetta Calavetta. At the beginning of her career, she was also dubbed by Dhia Cristiani. Lydia Simoneschi and Rita Savagnone also lent their voice to Novak at some point, in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) respectively.
11. Was the original choice to play Marion Wormer in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978).
12. Visited Sammy Davis Jr. in hospital shortly before his death.
13. Ex-stepmother of Sorel Johnson.
14. 1953 Deb Star.
15. Daughter of Joseph A. Novak and Blanche Kral. Her sister, Arlene Malborg, is a fashion designer in Chicago.
16. Despite being divorced from him, she remained friends with Richard Johnson until his death in 2015. They were only married for 10 months.
17. Met her husband, Dr. Robert Malloy, in 1974 when he came to treat her sick horse. They married two years later in an outdoor ceremony at their home near the Big Sur in California. She has two stepchildren.
18. Injured in a 2006 horseback riding accident that broke her ribs, punctured a lung and caused nerve damage. She made a full recovery within a year.
19. In an interview with Stephen Rebello in the July 2005 issue of Movieline's Hollywood Life, Novak admitted that she had been "unprofessional" in her conduct with director Mike Figgis on how to portray her character in the film Liebestraum (1991).
20. Considered suing Hungarian music band Kill Kim Novak in the mid-'00s.