Kim Novak She achieved the status of Hollywood diva with just ten years of career. Her blonde hair, her stunning beauty and her acting skills made her one of the most in-demand actresses of the time, rubbing shoulders with the greatest such as Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon, William Holden, Tyrone Power and Frank Sinatra.
but it was Vertigoof Alfred Hitchcockthe role that painted his name in golden letters in the history of cinema. He was 25 years old and he would last in Hollywood only eight more years. “I didn’t want to get lost. I needed to leave to save myself. “I like who I am,” Novak said at the time. And the actress assures that the vanity and glamor of Hollywood They end up turning those who live off it into unreal characters. And she didn’t want it for herself.
So he left, settled in Oregon and she married an equine veterinarian with whom he lived happily for 45 years, “the best of my life.” After dealing with depression and being diagnosed with bipolar disorderKim Novak only returned to acting in small television roles, being Falcon Crest the most remembered.
And now a film is being prepared about a specific episode of his life and the actress who will play the new Kim Novak is Sydney Sweeney. As advanced deadlinethe film will be titled Scandalous! and it is the actor’s directorial debut Colman Domingoone of Sweeney’s companions in the series Euphoria.
Sweeney will play Kim Novak in a story about their secret and controversial romance with the actor and singer Sammy Davis Jr.. in the second half of the 1950s. At that time she had not yet become Alfred Hichcock’s muse thanks to the film Vertigowhere she arrived as a last-minute replacement for the actress Vera Miles.
David Johnson (Alien: Romulus) will play Davis Jr., the famous member of the Rat Pack of Sinatra with whom Novak began a secret love affair. Their relationship had to develop in secret because of racism of the time, which threatened to end their careers.
But they couldn’t keep it a secret as long as, when was published in the pressSammy Davis Jr. began receiving mafia threats. Evil tongues claim that behind these threats was Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Pictureswhere Novak was under contract. Cohn was known for managing the public image of his stars, so he must not have liked the interracial romanceNovak’s l.
After these threats, the actor married Loray Whitea black choir singer with whom he never lived and with whom he would divorce after a few months. A real novel that seems taken from the minds of the most convoluted scriptwriters but that actually happened.
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