By Joseph Martinez -
Actress Kim Novak, a huge box-office draw
of the 1950s, was immortalized on Hollywood Boulevard when she sank
her hands, feet and unintentionally, knuckles as she steadied herself
while getting up, into a block of wet cement in the forecourt of
Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Saturday, April 14, 2012.
Veteran
Hollywood Stars, Debbie Reynolds, Connie Stevens and Lainie Kazan were
in attendance lending their support to Kim for this coveted Hollywood
honor. Letters of congratulations from Nicole Kidman and Renee
Zellweger were read, as they could not be present at the ceremony.
The
star of 'Picnic' and 'Vertigo', revealed to an audience at the TCM
Classic Film Festival on Friday that she regrets having had to leave
Hollywood because of her bipolar disorder. "I'm bipolar," she said,
"but there's medicine you can take for this now. I was not diagnosed
until much later. I go through more of the depression than the mania
part." Novak, now 79, said that even though studios tried turn her into
a "beach girl, I needed something complicated because I was
complicated." Eventually the emotional pressures of the industry became
too much for her and she moved to Big Sur to paint, a decision, she
now says, she often second-guesses. (photo by © 2012 Joe
Martinez/PictureLux)
Kim Novak Trivia per IMDB.com:
Raises horses and llamas in Oregon and California
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#92) in 1995
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."
Turned down the female lead in
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), The Hustler (1961) and Animal House
(1978) among others because she was focusing her time on personal
activities.
She did agree to change her first name from Marilyn to Kim, as the public associated her given name with Marilyn Monroe.
She
arrived in Hollywood as The Lavendar Girl. When she became a star at
Columbia Pictures, the studio had her blonde hair tinted with lavender
highlights.
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