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Kim Novak To Receive Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement

Kim Novak, 'Vertigo' Star, Is To Receive The Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement

Venice’s Artistic Director Alberto Barbera declared: “Inadvertently becoming a screen legend, Kim Novak was one of the most beloved icons of an entire era of Hollywood films, from her auspicious debut during the mid-1950s until her premature and voluntary exile from the gilded cage of Los Angeles a short while later. He continued: “Thanks to her exuberant beauty; her ability to bring to life characters who were naïve and discreet, as well as sensuous and tormented; and her seductive and sometimes sorrowful gaze, she was appreciated by some of the major American directors of the period, from Billy Wilder ( Kiss me, Stupid), to Otto Preminger ( The Man With the Golden Arm), Robert Aldrich ( The Legend of Lylah Clare), George Sidney ( The Eddy Duchin Story, Jeanne Eagels, Pal Joey), and Richard Quine, with whom she made unforgettable romantic comedies ( Pushover, Bell Book and Candle, Strangers When We Meet, The Notorious Landlady). This Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement celebrates a star who was emancipated, a rebel at the heart of Hollywood who illuminated the dreams of movie lovers before retiring to her ranch in Oregon to dedicate herself to painting and to her horses.”

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